Fangyu Long A03 Week 4

In the reading “Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism” Eliza Noh writes about the role of Asian American studies within higher education over the past six years of chairing her department. She also address some problems about performance funding, course design, and personalized learning. She stated that “Due to the absence of ethnic studies in kindergarten through twelfth grade education and a high number of transfer students with already declared non–ethnic studies majors, our major is typically discovered late in students’ academic careers.” The department of Asian American studies draws enrollments and majors primarily from GE course. This fact is so true that I might never consider taking this course if it not a GE but also a history requirement. This is very common for Chinese international students. We have to complete our history course requirement and we are Asians. Thus, we pick the most familiar class and here we are. According to Constante, Agnes “25 U.S. colleges and universities offer majors in Asian American studies. The number does not include institutions like Duke that have a program but don't offer a degree.” UCD is one of the colleges that offers Asian American studies. According to this number, we can see that many people are not aware of the importance of the Asian American studies and schools are not encouraging these studies. For the question, why don’t schools improve the course level of Asian American studies and make it more than just a GE course? 

Constante, Agnes. “After 50 Years, Asian American Studies Programs Can Still Be Hard to Find.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 3 July 2019, www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/after-50-years-asian-american-studies-programs-can-still-be-n1022331.