Major in APIA
Declaration:
Students may declare their intention for the APIA major after completing any APIA course. To discuss their interest and program of study, they are strongly encouraged to visit with any APIA faculty or the Program Director, Professor Deenesh Sohoni at dssoho@wm.edu.
Major Requirements: (33 credits minimum)
I. FOUNDATION (3 credits)
APIA 205 - Introduction to Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies
II. METHODOLOGY (3 credits)
APIA 332 - Sex & Race in Plays & Films (4 credits)
APIA 342 - Peoples and Cultures of East Asia
APIA 366 - Asian American Studies
APIA 350 – TOPICS (Cross-cultural Psychology)
III. CORE (12 credits)
Courses not taken to fulfill methodology requirements may be taken for the CORE.
APIA 222 - Acting Asian American: The Performance of Identity
AMES 250 – Critical Issues in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
APIA 315 - Asian Pacific American History
APIA 320 – Islamophobia
APIA 337 – Immigration, Assimilation, and Ethnicity
APIA 350 – Topics in APIA Studies
APIA 351 - Peoples and Cultures of Polynesia
APIA 385 – Student Think Tank
APIA 405 - Transnational Asian American Literature
APIA 418 – Portuguese India and its Literary Afterlives (approved by EPC via ENGL in SP2019)
APIA 444 - Filipino American & Diaspora Studies
APIA 445 - Korean American Diaspora Studies
APIA 480 – Independent Study
IV. Senior Seminar (3 credits)
From any APIA 400 level course excluding APIA 480, 495, 496, & 499
V. CAPSTONE*: (3)
APIA 499 – Senior Capstone Project
APIA 495 & 496 - Honors (6)
VI. ELECTIVES: (9 credits of APIA CORE not yet taken or pre-approved courses.*)
APIA - courses not credited for other requirements fulfill Electives.
AMES – any AMES course
ANTH 302 - Ethnographic Research
ANTH 350 – Anthropology of the State
ANTH 454 – Quantitative Research Methods in Anthropology
ANTH 472 – Ethnographic History
ARTH 333 – Theories and Methods of Art History
ARTH 382 – Buddhist Art & Architecture
BIOL 327 – Introduction to Biostatistics
BUAD 231 - Statistics GOVT 301 – Research Methods
ECON 307 – Principles and Methods of Statistics
ENGL 200 – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Culture
HIST 301 – The Historian’s Craft
GOVT 302 – Quantitative Methods
GSWS 375 – Feminist Research Methods
KINE/SOCL 369 – Methods and Analysis in International Community Health and Development
LING 441 – Sociolinguistic Field Methods
MATH 106 – Elementary Probability and Statistics
PSYC 302 – Experimental Methods
PSYC 414 – Research Methods in Social Psychology
RELG 212 – Introduction to Islam
RELG 213 – Introduction to Hinduism
RELG 214 – Introduction to Buddhism
RELG 215 – Religion in East Asia
RELG 221 – Religion and Ethics
RELG 364 – Yoga and Tantra
RELG 367 – Himalayan Religion
RELG 380 – Buddhist Philosophy
RELG 382 – Buddhism & Science
RELG 391 – Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
SOCL 250 – Principles of Sociology
SOCL 352 – Research Design
SOCL 353 – Quantitative Research Methods
SOCL 362 – Medical Sociology
SOCL 440 – Social Inequality and Health
THEA 200 - Introduction to Theatre
THEA 317 - Fundamentals of Playwriting
THEA 333 – South & SE Asian Folklore Performance
THEA 334 – Classical Asian Theatres
