ENGLISH 449 | ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

This course poses a single question: "how do we tell stories about America?" In the case of Asian Americans, we find that in many cases American stories--fictional and historical--exclude Asian Americans. Asian American literature exists to a great extent because writers wanted to fill in the gaps of "the" American story. In this course, students will not only read and write about Asian American literature but also attempt to answer the question of "how do we tell stories about America?" for themselves through multimedia projects that center on the literature and experiences of Asian Americans. They will be trained in multimedia technology and will integrate their classroom learning and/or personal experiences into these projects that will tell their own American stories. The professor for this course is Viet Nguyen.

Training will occur in a separate lab section with a series of rotating teaching assistants. Labs meet on either Tuesday from 3:30-5 or Thursday from 2-3:30 at the Kerckhoff Carriage House. Information about directions as well as resources of the lab and the Multimedia Literacy Project can be found at www.mmliteracy.net. Technical questions can be directed to Janine Fron at jfron@annenberg.edu, who will forward your question to the appropriate person at MLP. This course meets on Tuesday + Thursday 9:30-10:45 THH 214. Use the jump menu below to see further information for the course.

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