Courses
The Filipino American Experience
Sociology 395/FAST 395
Dr. Araceli Suzara
asuzara@odu.edu What are the social forces that shape the relationship between the Philippines and the US? What is its impact on the meaning of being a Filipino American? The course will try to answer these questions by reading, writing, and talking about the historical experiences of Filipinos. We will begin with a general survey of Philippine History and Culture and end with the history of immigration to the United States. We will compare and contrast those experiences with other Asian American groups and locate them against the backdrop of historical changes in American society and the confrontations and convergences that characterize the Filipino American experience. We will examine evidence of the shifting power relations and encounters with domination, resistance, and negotiation in our continued effort to define what it means to be a Filipino American.
An experiential approach will be used as a critical teaching tool and includes the use of CD Rom, films/videos, and demonstrations of indigenous martial arts to link resistance and expressions of art forms. We will learn to write in baybayin/alibata. Research essays may be selected for publication in TINIG (Voice), a publication of the Filipino American Cultural Center.
Issues in the Filipino American Community
Sociology 395/FAST 395
Dr. Araceli Suzara
asuzara@odu.edu
The course examines and analyses the Filipino American Community from a sociological perspective. It includes a critical examination of the issues, concerns, and problems of the community. These issues include -- defining Filipino community populations, immigration and adaptation, and the dynamic interaction among such factors as social class, ethnicity/race, gender, education, income and employment, political empowerment and the changing role of religion, women and the family. An experiential approach will be used as a critical teaching tool that includes the use of community resources in the learning process. Student research essays may be selected for publication in Tinig (Voice), a publication of the Filipino American Cultural Center
Contemporary Filipino & Filipino American Writers
English 396/FAST 396
Dr. Luisa (Cariño) Igloria
ligloria@odu.edu
This course aims to provide an introduction to contemporary fiction and poetry written by Filipinos in America. We will look at how contemporary Filipino writers in America examine issues of history, identity and change; their contributions to the redefinition of the literary canon and of their place and status within it; and their relationship to issues of reading, reception, and the achievement[s] represented by publication. We will examine the turns that have been taken by Filipino American writers in America in developing strategies for inscribing, representing and textualizing personal histories that are undercut by more distributive and comprehensive social histories.
Summer Study Abroad / Philippines
Socio-Cultural and Economic Development
May 13 - 27, 2000
Sociology 395/ETHN 395,Asian Studies 495, MKTG 496/696, MGMT 463/563
Dr. Araceli Suzara Asuzara@odu.edu and Dr. Earl Honeycutt ehoneycu@odu.edu
This course provides the student the opportunity to learn first hand about the many challenges facing the Philippines. It will deal with issues and concerns, such as economic and rural development, women and the family, poverty, politics and the economy, and religio-cultural changes, that confront a developing society. We will spend two weeks in the Philippines: one week in Metropolitan Manila and surrounding provinces, Baguio City and the Cordillera Mountains. We will visit the historic sites of Intramuros, Corregidor, Diliman, the Asian Institute of Management, the campuses of the University of the Philippines in Diliman and Baguio, and the Subic Bay Free Trade Zone. Our visit will be highlighted with a dialogue with the Vice President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
