“Teaching in ACAM is really exciting to me because the fields that are encompassed by the banner of ACAM foreground the political conditions and the material histories in which knowledge production happens.”
– Dr. Danielle Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures
Looking to round out your semester with culturally immersive and intellectually rigorous courses? Curious about lived experiences, critical theory and diasporic perspectives? The following 2025/2026 courses are open to everyone, but they can also be used to fulfill the requirements of the Bachelor of Arts Minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM). Scroll down to read through the course descriptions, scheduling info and possible research questions that will be explored in class readings, lectures and assignments.
ACAM 320D: Race and Technology
- Instructor: Dr. Danielle Wong from the Department of English Language and Literatures
- Term 1
- Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 pm to 3:30 pm
Course Description: This course examines Asian/North American digital life as the shifting intersections between Asian racialization and information technologies. We will link questions about migration, new media networks, and digital selves to the ongoing projects of settler colonialism and empire. These inquiries will be illuminated through critical analyses of race, gender, and sexuality and by drawing from relevant fields of study, including critical race, new media, and Asian North American studies. In addition to reading scholarship from these fields, students will have the opportunity to engage in films, TV, digital media, literature, music, and other cultural productions.
Some questions we will pursue:
- What is the relationship between Asian North Americans or Asian diasporic folks, and information capitalism?
- What emerges when we follow transnational or diasporic networks, whether they be analog connections or digital ones?
- How can we conceive of the role of Asian labour in producing new media productions, new media technologies, as well as new media performances?
- How does thinking about Asian labour help us make connections between new media and histories of migration, displacement, and nation-building?
ACAM 320J: Asian Canadian Community Organizing
- Instructors: Dr. JP Catungal from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and christina lee from Hua Foundation
- Term 1
- Schedule: Wednesdays, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Course Description: In this course, students will learn about and practise ethical and collaborative research with and for Asian Canadian communities. Along with lectures, discussions and readings, students will engage directly with and learn from community research partners who have worked with Asian Canadian studies faculty at UBC. The course will enable students to implement research projects in collaboration with local community partners and to collaborate on a ‘community charter’ that articulates what it means to do meaningful research for Asian Canadian communities, by and with Asian Canadian communities.
The Department of English Language and Literatures also has a number of 2025/2026 courses that have been approved for the ACAM minor.
PLEASE NOTE: Although the following courses and their waitlists are currently at capacity, ACAM students who are already registered can use these credits to count toward the minor:
- ENGL 371: Asian Canadian and/or Asian Transnational Studies with Dr. Christine Kim
- ENGL 373: Indigenous Literature with Dr. Dallas Hunt
- ENGL 374: Post-Colonial Literature with Dr. Phanuel Antwi
- ENGL 375: Global South Connections with Dr. Deena Dinat
- ENGL 382: Anti/Post/De-Colonial Lit with Dr. Dina Al-Kassim
