Asian Pacific Islander Committee

Our mission is to celebrate, educate and raise awareness of the many diverse and intersecting Asian and Pacific Islander cultures, histories and lived experiences here and abroad, which are represented by members of our college community.

 

By sponsoring these activities, the members of the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Committee hope to build understanding, challenge stereotypes and foster a sense of belonging, harmony and inclusivity at Grossmont College and East County San Diego.

 

Introducing API-Focused Grossmont College Courses

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ART 146 - Asian Art [Spring]

This course provides a select overview of art and architecture from Asia from prehistory to modern times with an emphasis on content, context, and style. This course covers subject matter, function, iconography, patronage, artistic methods and influences, and social and cultural contexts of artworks and monuments. This course includes art from: the Indus Valley, Early Buddhist and Hindu Art in Ancient India, later Indian art including Mughal, Neolithic through early Imperial China, Northern Wei through Tang dynasties, later China through contemporary era, Korea, archeological Japan through Heian, and later Japan through contemporary era. (C-ID ARTH 130) (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C1, IGETC-3A)

 

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 2:00-3:20 PM

Location: 20-104

Instructor: M Molina

  • Section 2125
  • Low Textbook Cost
  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

 

ECON 261 Economic Relations in Asia Pacfic

Coming soon

 

This course is an exploration of the historical and present economic relations of the Asia Pacific region focusing on the interaction of the major economics of East Asia, Southeast Asia and the English-speaking Pacific. Topics such as economic development, regional integration, capital flows, financial architectures, migration, trade, political economy, resource allocation and environmental issues will be investigated. (CSU/UC) (CSU-D, IGETC-4)

 

ENGL 239 - Asian American Literature

Coming soon

 

This course in Asian American Literature will include poetry, ballads, short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction prose. "Asian" is a broad category that includes, but is not limited to, persons who trace their roots to at least China, Japan, Korea, Burma (or Myanmar), Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Historically, industrialization, technological development, and a rejection of tradition have invoked ideologies of the "Oriental other," "the Yellow Peril," and the "model minority." But the literary works herein challenge such narratives and set the stage to examine an age marked by migration, war, imperialism, (neo)colonialism, and globalization. Students will be invited to read and discuss a variety of texts that represent Asia and the Pacific Islands during and after World War II, and that challenge ideas about the past and present, the traditional and the modern, and "the West" and "the East." Students will analyze the literature and apply critical theory to describe events in the histories, cultures, and intellectual and literary traditions, with special focus on the lived experiences, social struggles, and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawai'ians, and Pacific Islander Americans in the United States. Note: Also listed as ETHN 239. Not open to students with credit in ETHN 239. (CSU, UC)(AA/AS-C, CSU-C2)

  • Cross discipline with ETHN 239

 

ETHN 107 - History of Race/Ethnicity in the United States [Spring]

An introduction to the social, cultural, and historical experiences of racial and ethnic groups and their roles in shaping in the United States. Focus will be on migration, colonization, racialization, racism, and discrimination, assimilation and resistance and agency, social stratification, liberation movements, and the intersection of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities as they relate to African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas/os/x, and Native Americans. Also listed as HIST 107. Not open to students with credit in HIST 107. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D,F, IGETC-4,7)

  • Transfers to CSU

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Mon & Wed

Time: 2:00-3:20 PM

Location: 100-102A

Instructor: C Contreras

  • Session 4936

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 9:30-10:50 AM

Location: 36-150

Instructor: C Contreras

  • Session 4864

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM

Location: 100-110

Instructor: C Contreras

  • Session 3221

 

ETHN 114 - Introduction to the Sociology of Minority Relations [Intersession & Spring]

An introduction to the sociological analysis of ethnicity, race, and immigration in the United States. Topics include the history of racialized and minoritized groups in the United States, patterns of interaction between racial and ethnic groups, colonialism, immigration, identity formation, prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, racism, institutional racism, social movements for civil rights, liberation and decolonization, and the intersection of race and ethnicity with other forms of difference. Also listed as SOC 114. Not open to students with credit in SOC 114. (C-ID SOCI 150) (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D,F, IGETC-4,7)

  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

 

Intersession Date: Jan 6-Feb 1, 2025

Location: WEB

  • Instructor: R. Quezada, Sections 0444 and 1749
  • Instructor: N Harpin, Sections 1744 and 1839
  • Instructor: C Hinton, Section 3411
  • Instructor: A Buckley, Section 4646

 

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Location: WEB

  • Instructor: R. Quezada, Sections 1606 and 1891
  • Instructor: M Odom, Section 1608
    • Zero Textbook Cost
  • Instructor: N Harpin, Section 1892
    • Zero Textbook Cost
  • Instructor: A Martinez, Section 2073
  • Instructor: C Hinton, Sections 2907

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Mon & Wed

Time: 9:30-10:50 AM

Location: 18-100

Instructor: J Soto

  • Section 4281

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Mon & Wed

Time: 12:30-1:50 PM

Location: 100-114

Instructor: J Soto

  • Section 4282

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Thu & Hyflex TBD

Time: 9:00-10:20 AM

Location: 36-124

Instructor: O Padilla

  • Section 4648

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 9:30-10:50 AM

Location: 17-100

Instructor: R. Quezada

  • Section 1604
  • Part of the FYE Program

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 9:30-10:50 AM

Location: 100-110

Instructor: N Harpin

  • Section 1664
  • Low Textbook Cost
  • Part of the FYE Program

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM

Location: 17-100

Instructor: R Quezada

  • Section 9842

Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Wed

Time: 6:00-9:05 PM

Location: 100-121A

Instructor: R. Quezada

  • Section 3223

 

Spring Date: Feb 18-Jun 2, 2025

Location: WEB

 

  • Instructor: A Buckley
    • Section 5114

 

Spring Date: Apr 7-Jun 2, 2025

Location: WEB

 

  • Instructor: C Hinton, Section 3547
  • Instructor: J Myers McFarlane, Section 9839
  • Instructor: A Escobedo, Section 9841

 

 

ETHN 160 - Asian American Pacific Islander Perspective I [Fall]

This course is a cultural and historical analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island experience from pre-colonial/pre-migration communities of Asia and the Pacific Islands, through immigration and contact with American colonial societies, and through the formation of the US and imperial expansion of the mid-1800s. This class explores the social, political, economic, and cultural factors encountered by populations loosely grouped as Asian and Pacific Islanders. Emphasis is placed, but is not limited to, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, and Southern Asian experiences. Such experiences include immigration, diaspora, return, identity, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, race, racism, and race relations, community development, traditional values, identity formation in the context of Euro-centric US cultures, sexuality and gender, U.S. policies, and issues of resistance, colonization, decolonization, and anti-colonialism. An analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island American perspective on cultural roots, immigration, accommodation and resistance, and settlement patterns, labor, legal, political, and social history within the context of the US Constitution and the political philosophy of its framers. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)

 

Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024

Location: WEB

Instructor: P Nie

  • Section 3945
  • Cross section HIST 160-3944
  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

 

ETHN 161 - Asian American Pacific Islander Perspective II

Coming soon

 

This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Drawing from a range of interdisciplinary approaches and sources, the course explores the importance of the Asian American and Pacific Island American experience to U.S. history while also giving due consideration to the global and international forces that shaped it. In doing so, it probes the varied experiences of people identified as "Asian Americans," and "Pacific Island Americans," examining what those identities mean and how that had changed over time. The experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders will inform the analysis of broader themes including migration, diaspora, return, gender, race and racism, labor, citizenship, community, resistance and self-determination, identity formation, war, anti-colonialism, de-colonialism, and imperialism, and transnationalism. The course introduces the major themes and basic chronology of Asian American and Pacific Island American history while providing a critical perspective on the conventional narrative American history. The course analyzes the Asian American and Pacific Island American past within a context of power relations, especially hierarchies of race, gender, and class and examines the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present. Emphasis is placed on Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Asian Indian Americans, Korean Americans, Pacific Island Americans, and Southeast Asian Americans. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)

  • Cross discipline with HIST 161

 

ETHN 239 - Asian American Literature

Coming soon

 

This course in Asian American Literature will include poetry, ballads, short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction prose. "Asian" is a broad category that includes, but is not limited to, persons who trace their roots to at least China, Japan, Korea, Burma (or Myanmar), Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Historically, industrialization, technological development, and a rejection of tradition have invoked ideologies of the "Oriental other," "the Yellow Peril," and the "model minority." But the literary works herein challenge such narratives and set the stage to examine an age marked by migration, war, imperialism, (neo)colonialism, and globalization. Students will be invited to read and discuss a variety of texts that represent Asia and the Pacific Islands during and after World War II, and that challenge ideas about the past and present, the traditional and the modern, and "the West" and "the East." Students will analyze the literature and apply critical theory to describe events in the histories, cultures, and intellectual and literary traditions, with special focus on the lived experiences, social struggles, and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawai'ians, and Pacific Islander Americans in the United States. Note: Also listed as ETHN 239. Not open to students with credit in ETHN 239. (CSU, UC)(AA/AS-C, CSU-C2)

  • Cross discipline with ENGL 239

 

HIST 107 - History of Race/Ethnicity in the United States [Spring]

An introduction to the social, cultural, and historical experiences of racial and ethnic groups and their roles in shaping in the United States. Focus will be on migration, colonization, racialization, racism, and discrimination, assimilation and resistance and agency, social stratification, liberation movements, and the intersection of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities as they relate to African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas/os/x, and Native Americans. Also listed as HIST 107. Not open to students with credit in HIST 107. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D,F, IGETC-4,7)

  • Cross section with ETHN 107
  • Transfers to CSU

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Mon & Wed

Time: 2:00-3:20 PM

Location: 100-102A

Instructor: C Contreras

  • Session 4937

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 9:30-10:50 AM

Location: 36-150

Instructor: C Contreras

  • Session 4269

Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM

Location: 100-110

Instructor: C Contreras

  • Session 3030

 

HIST 137 - History of East Asia [Fall]

A historical survey of China and Japan from prehistory to modern times. Emphasis on their comparative and intertwining histories with particular attention to historical origins, political institutions, social/economic structures, religious/philosophical beliefs, literary/cultural achievements, technological/scientific contributions, interactions with Korea and the West, participation in major wars, and current geopolitical status and power. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2,D, IGETC-3B,4)

 

Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024

Location: WEB

Instructor: F McMeeken

  • Section 0948

 

HIST 160 - Asian American Pacific Islander Perspective I [Fall]

This course is a cultural and historical analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island experience from pre-colonial/pre-migration communities of Asia and the Pacific Islands, through immigration and contact with American colonial societies, and through the formation of the US and imperial expansion of the mid-1800s. This class explores the social, political, economic, and cultural factors encountered by populations loosely grouped as Asian and Pacific Islanders. Emphasis is placed, but is not limited to, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, and Southern Asian experiences. Such experiences include immigration, diaspora, return, identity, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, race, racism, and race relations, community development, traditional values, identity formation in the context of Euro-centric US cultures, sexuality and gender, U.S. policies, and issues of resistance, colonization, decolonization, and anti-colonialism. An analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island American perspective on cultural roots, immigration, accommodation and resistance, and settlement patterns, labor, legal, political, and social history within the context of the US Constitution and the political philosophy of its framers. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)

 

Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024

Location: WEB

Instructor: P Nie

  • Sections 3944
  • Cross section ETHN 160-3945
  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

 

HIST 161 - Asian American Pacific Islander Perspective II

Coming soon

 

This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Drawing from a range of interdisciplinary approaches and sources, the course explores the importance of the Asian American and Pacific Island American experience to U.S. history while also giving due consideration to the global and international forces that shaped it. In doing so, it probes the varied experiences of people identified as "Asian Americans," and "Pacific Island Americans," examining what those identities mean and how that had changed over time. The experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders will inform the analysis of broader themes including migration, diaspora, return, gender, race and racism, labor, citizenship, community, resistance and self-determination, identity formation, war, anti-colonialism, de-colonialism, and imperialism, and transnationalism. The course introduces the major themes and basic chronology of Asian American and Pacific Island American history while providing a critical perspective on the conventional narrative American history. The course analyzes the Asian American and Pacific Island American past within a context of power relations, especially hierarchies of race, gender, and class and examines the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present. Emphasis is placed on Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Asian Indian Americans, Korean Americans, Pacific Island Americans, and Southeast Asian Americans. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)

  • Cross discipline with ETHN 161

 

HUM 130 - East Asian Humanities

Coming soon

 

An integrated approach to the culture of East Asia from earliest civilization to present. The cultural development of Japan, China and India, as well as Southeast Asia, will be explored in relation to literature, music, drama, architecture, visual arts, and film. Cultural expression will be examined using a religious and historical context. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)

 

JAPN 149 - Japanese Culture/Civilization [Fall]

Survey of major characteristics of Japanese culture as seen in Japan today. This course will compare and contrast traditional Japanese culture and values with the modern Japanese culture. This course will examine what role history has played in the development of traditional Japanese culture and the role western culture has played in the development of the modern Japanese culture. It will examine the issues that this dichotomy creates and the relationship between Japan and the western world. This course will be taught in English. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)

 

Fall Date: Oct 14-Dec 16, 2024

Day: Mon & Wed

Time: 6:00-9:05 PM

Location: TBD

Instructor: M Maemoto

  • Section 3775
  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

 

MUS 116 - Introduction to World Music [Fall]

This course is designed to expand the student?s perspective about the nature of music around the world and also to demonstrate the relationship between musics in different cultures and will highlight elements common to all musics. Content may include the music of the cultures of India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C1, IGETC-3A)

 

Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024

Days: Tue & Thu

Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM

Location: 26-221

Instructor: F Bahrami

  • Session 3916
  • Hyflex option
  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

 

PHIL 120 - Asian and Pacific Philosophies

Coming soon

 

This course examines major Asian and Pacific philosophies, with focus on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. Special attention is given to family and the just society, and alternative conceptions of the self, time, and reality are also explored. Asian Pacific thought is an alternative to that of the Occident. These differences manifest in the larger cultural and socio-political contexts of the respective peoples. Students will emerge from this course with a greater understanding of the sources of their own fundamental beliefs. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)

 

POSC 155 - State and Society in the Asia Pacific

Coming soon

 

An historical, cultural and social science based comparative analysis of the evolution and current conditions of significant political/economic/social communities within the Asian Pacific Region. The course will focus on the endurance of traditional cultures, the intermingling and grafting of the Asian traditions, the influence of Western values and institutions, socioeconomic development and change, the relationship between individuals and institutions of state, national identity and nationalism, and the importance of globalization for the region. States studied through the above lenses may include China, India, Japan, states of Southeast Asia, the Koreas, Australia, New Zealand, the Russian Pacific, the island states of the Pacific, and states of Central and South Asia. (CSU/UC) (CSU-D, IGETC-4)

 

RELG 150 - Asian Religions [Fall]

Fall Date: Aug 19-Oct 12, 2024

Location: WEB

Instructor: E Burke

  • Section 4048
  • Zero Textbook Cost
  • Use of Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Transfers to both UC/CSU

This course provides an overview of the variety of religious traditions and communities found throughout Asia. Students comparatively examine the beliefs, scriptures, world-views, rituals, ethics, and social systems of the religious traditions and communities throughout Asia. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)

 

 

Celebrate the Year of the Snake

January 29, 2025 to February 16, 2026

  • The Snake symbolizes intellegence, wisdom and intuition.
  • Chinese greeting: Kung Hei Fat Choy! Wishing a happy and prosperous new year to you!
  • Korean greeting: Haengbokan Saehae Doeseyo! Have a happy new year!
  • Japanese greeting: Akemashite omedetō gozaimasu! Happy New Year!

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San Diego Lunar New Year Festival [Off-Campus]

Dates/Times:

Jan 24, 2025 from 5:00-10:00 PM

Jan 25, 2025 from 11:00 AM-10:00 PM

Jan 26, 2025 from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM

 

Location:

Officer Jeremey Henwood Memorial Park

4455 Wightman St, 92105

 

SD Lunar New Year Festival is a 3-day celebration of the most important holiday in many Asian cultures. The festival will include folk and traditional performances, arts and cultural exhibitions, lion dances and firecrackers, and plenty of family fun activities for the kids. More importantly, the festival is inclusive and free.

 

San Diego TET Festival [Off-Campus]

Dates/Times:

Jan 31, 2025 from 5:00-10:00 PM

Feb 1, 2025 from 11:00 AM-10:00 PM

Feb 2, 2025 from 11:00 AM-9:00 PM

 

Location:

Preble Field, NTC Park Liberty Station

2640 Cushing Rd, 92106

 

Celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake! The San Diego TET Festival includes Entertainment Headliners, Dance Competitions, Performances, Attractions, and Carnival Rides ($). Admission is FREE.

 

Balboa Park Chinese New Year Fair [Off-Campus]

Dates: Feb 15-16, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM-5:00 PM

Location: International Cottages Balboa Park

                2191 Pan American Rd W, 92101

 

Celebrate the year of the Snake! Since 1935, the House of China has brought the beauty of Chinese culture to San Diego located at the International Cottages Balboa Park. Our annual Balboa Park Chinese New Year Fair is a time-honored tradition that brings together families and communities to celebrate with performances, food, and cultural displays. Admission is FREE.

 

 

 

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