Japn 307: Japanese American Experience
Course Description
This course focuses on Japanese-American experience from the 1860's to the present as an ongoing study in ethnographic assimilation including early immigration and response; immigration and labor laws; property rights; and WWII internment. Students identify and evaluate the issues of the ethics of assimilation racial and ethnic discrimination educational opportunity social justice and cultural identity.
MLO's
This course meets MLO 2.
Course Narrative
This course looked at Japanese-Americans and the struggles that they faced and continue to face. We went over the history from the arrival of the first Japanese- American immigrants to the present day. The course covered in depth the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and their struggles afterwards to reintegrate back into American society following their trauma. This course gave me the opportunity to view Japanese history from a point of view that is very different from the other culture courses that I have taken. At the end of the semester we wrote an essay on any of the historical events that we covered in class. I wrote my final essay on the struggles Japanese-Americans faced when they left the internment camps. Examining this particular issue allowed for me to tie not only the prejudice that the Japanese-American population faced prior to their internment but also with the reactions and struggles that they faced as they were given minimal assistance for returning to their lives before the war. This course gave me a more in-depth historical understanding of the Japanese-American experience and a better understanding of the prejudices that they face on a daily basis.
This course focuses on Japanese-American experience from the 1860's to the present as an ongoing study in ethnographic assimilation including early immigration and response; immigration and labor laws; property rights; and WWII internment. Students identify and evaluate the issues of the ethics of assimilation racial and ethnic discrimination educational opportunity social justice and cultural identity.
MLO's
This course meets MLO 2.
Course Narrative
This course looked at Japanese-Americans and the struggles that they faced and continue to face. We went over the history from the arrival of the first Japanese- American immigrants to the present day. The course covered in depth the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and their struggles afterwards to reintegrate back into American society following their trauma. This course gave me the opportunity to view Japanese history from a point of view that is very different from the other culture courses that I have taken. At the end of the semester we wrote an essay on any of the historical events that we covered in class. I wrote my final essay on the struggles Japanese-Americans faced when they left the internment camps. Examining this particular issue allowed for me to tie not only the prejudice that the Japanese-American population faced prior to their internment but also with the reactions and struggles that they faced as they were given minimal assistance for returning to their lives before the war. This course gave me a more in-depth historical understanding of the Japanese-American experience and a better understanding of the prejudices that they face on a daily basis.