Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies

New Books Published: Professors David Yoo, Hung Cam Thai, and Kathy Yep have new books out. Click here to read more.

IDAAS Books/Videos: Click here to check out the latest list of books/videos available at the IDAAS library.

Course Offerings: Click here for the Fall 2008 Asian American Studies course list. Here's a snapshot of the courses offered:

ASAM82 Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Teaching
ASAM84 Nonviolent Social Change
ASAM111 Asian Americans and Education
ASAM190a/ASAM190PO Asian American Studies Senior Seminar: Applications, Analysis, & Future Directions
ASAM190b/ASAM191PO Asian American Studies Senior Thesis
ENGL160 Transnational American Literature
HIST125 Introduction to Asian American History, 1850-Present
MS80 Video and Diversity
SOC126 Immigration and the Second Generation

As featured in the Spring 2007 Pitzer Participant (Full copy of the Pitzer Participant here.) Kathy Yep
Kathleen S. Yep, assistant professor of Asian American Studies and sociology, was selected as a Faculty Fellow for the California Campus Compact–Carnegie Foundation Faculty Fellows Service-Learning for Political Engagement Program. Only twenty-five faculty members from across the state were chosen for this honor. As a Faculty Fellow, Yep will be working with other colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines over the next two years to create, implement and reflect on service learning in at least one of her courses with the goal of increasing students’ understanding, skills and motivation for political participation. Yep also gave a presentation titled “Conversations with my Grandfather: Angel Island, Immigration and Racialized Incarceration” at the Chinatown Library in Los Angeles.

As featured in the Summer 2007 CMC Magazine (Full copy of the CMC Magazine here.)
Through a National Institute of Mental Health grant, Dr. Wei-Chin Hwang was selected as a program leader in one of the three projects at the newly established Asian American Center on Disparities Research at the University of California, Davis. The Center will conduct and facilitate research specific to Asian American populations and their mental health treatment, including medication and psychotherapy evaluations. Dr. Hwang will oversee a large project to determine whether therapist cultural competency is related to mental health treatment outcomes for ethnic minority clients. Over a five-year span, this project will track the treatment progress of thousands of patients being treated by hundreds of clinicians. Dr. Hwang joins nearly a dozen key participants from UC Davis and the University of Oregon in building the new center.

Dr. Wei-Chin Hwang was also awarded a three-year exploratory research grant by the National Institute of Mental Health. The goal of this study is to culturally adapt a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) manual for use with depressed Chinese American patients. This study will be among the first to develop a culturally adapted evidence-based treatment for use with this ethnic group and will involve three study phases. Phase I of the study will focus on modifying and refining a CBT intervention protocol into a manualized treatment for Chinese Americans. Phase two involves a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of the culturally adapted CBT treatment manual with nonadapted CBT. Phase three will involve further refinement of the treatment manual, data analysis, and report writing.