Our mission is to celebrate, educate and raise awareness of the many diverse and intersecting Asian and Pacific Islander cultures, histories and lived experiences here and abroad, which are represented by members of our college community.
By sponsoring these activities, the members of the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Committee hope to build understanding, challenge stereotypes and foster a sense of belonging, harmony and inclusivity at СÓÅ´«Ã½ and East County San Diego.
June 26, 2025
Chief of War, TV mini series
In Chief of War, Kamehameha is portrayed as a man coming to terms with his kuleana and reluctantly accepting the burden of leadership. A thrilling, unprecedented telling of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands from an indigenous perspective. A Hawaiian war chief joins a bloody campaign to unite the warring islands in order to save them from the threat of colonization. Created by Jason Mamoa and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett.
Enjoy two days of ! Alongside will be the Great Island Cook Out food festival.
Date: Aug 30-31, 2025
Time: TBD
Location: Gallagher Square at Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
SAN DIEGO 5K & 10K Run/Walk
Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2025
Location: Tecolote Shores Park, 1292 E. Mission Bay Dr., 92111
• Collector’s Finisher Medal for all participants
• Aloha Run Beach towel
• Chip timed results
• Super scenic and flat course
• Post-race Luau with live music, dancers and drummers
• Winner awards for top 3 in five year age groups
For more information,
The Filipino Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Cincinnati Reds. Celebrate with a limited-edition themed jersey!
Date: Sep 8, 2025
Time: 6:40 pm
Location: Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
The Korean Heritage will be honored at this Padres Baseball game vs. the Brewers. Celebrate with a limited-edition hat!
Date: Sep 23, 2025
Time: 6:40 pm
Location: Petco Park
This is a ticket purchased event.
Mon, June 2, 2025
This course provides a select overview of art and architecture from Asia from prehistory to modern times with an emphasis on content, context, and style. This course covers subject matter, function, iconography, patronage, artistic methods and influences, and social and cultural contexts of artworks and monuments. This course includes art from: the Indus Valley, Early Buddhist and Hindu Art in Ancient India, later Indian art including Mughal, Neolithic through early Imperial China, Northern Wei through Tang dynasties, later China through contemporary era, Korea, archeological Japan through Heian, and later Japan through contemporary era. (C-ID ARTH 130) (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C1, IGETC-3A)
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 2:00-3:20 PM
Location: 20-104
Instructor: M Molina
Coming soon
This course is an exploration of the historical and present economic relations of the Asia Pacific region focusing on the interaction of the major economics of East Asia, Southeast Asia and the English-speaking Pacific. Topics such as economic development, regional integration, capital flows, financial architectures, migration, trade, political economy, resource allocation and environmental issues will be investigated. (CSU/UC) (CSU-D, IGETC-4)
Coming soon
This course in Asian American Literature will include poetry, ballads, short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction prose. "Asian" is a broad category that includes, but is not limited to, persons who trace their roots to at least China, Japan, Korea, Burma (or Myanmar), Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Historically, industrialization, technological development, and a rejection of tradition have invoked ideologies of the "Oriental other," "the Yellow Peril," and the "model minority." But the literary works herein challenge such narratives and set the stage to examine an age marked by migration, war, imperialism, (neo)colonialism, and globalization. Students will be invited to read and discuss a variety of texts that represent Asia and the Pacific Islands during and after World War II, and that challenge ideas about the past and present, the traditional and the modern, and "the West" and "the East." Students will analyze the literature and apply critical theory to describe events in the histories, cultures, and intellectual and literary traditions, with special focus on the lived experiences, social struggles, and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawai'ians, and Pacific Islander Americans in the United States. Note: Also listed as ETHN 239. Not open to students with credit in ETHN 239. (CSU, UC)(AA/AS-C, CSU-C2)
An introduction to the social, cultural, and historical experiences of racial and ethnic groups and their roles in shaping in the United States. Focus will be on migration, colonization, racialization, racism, and discrimination, assimilation and resistance and agency, social stratification, liberation movements, and the intersection of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities as they relate to African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas/os/x, and Native Americans. Also listed as HIST 107. Not open to students with credit in HIST 107. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D,F, IGETC-4,7)
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Mon & Wed
Time: 2:00-3:20 PM
Location: 100-102A
Instructor: C Contreras
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 9:30-10:50 AM
Location: 36-150
Instructor: C Contreras
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Location: 100-110
Instructor: C Contreras
An introduction to the sociological analysis of ethnicity, race, and immigration in the United States. Topics include the history of racialized and minoritized groups in the United States, patterns of interaction between racial and ethnic groups, colonialism, immigration, identity formation, prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, racism, institutional racism, social movements for civil rights, liberation and decolonization, and the intersection of race and ethnicity with other forms of difference. Also listed as SOC 114. Not open to students with credit in SOC 114. (C-ID SOCI 150) (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D,F, IGETC-4,7)
Intersession Date: Jan 6-Feb 1, 2025
Location: WEB
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Location: WEB
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Mon & Wed
Time: 9:30-10:50 AM
Location: 18-100
Instructor: J Soto
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Mon & Wed
Time: 12:30-1:50 PM
Location: 100-114
Instructor: J Soto
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Thu & Hyflex TBD
Time: 9:00-10:20 AM
Location: 36-124
Instructor: O Padilla
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 9:30-10:50 AM
Location: 17-100
Instructor: R. Quezada
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 9:30-10:50 AM
Location: 100-110
Instructor: N Harpin
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Location: 17-100
Instructor: R Quezada
Spring Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Wed
Time: 6:00-9:05 PM
Location: 100-121A
Instructor: R. Quezada
Spring Date: Feb 18-Jun 2, 2025
Location: WEB
Spring Date: Apr 7-Jun 2, 2025
Location: WEB
This course is a cultural and historical analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island experience from pre-colonial/pre-migration communities of Asia and the Pacific Islands, through immigration and contact with American colonial societies, and through the formation of the US and imperial expansion of the mid-1800s. This class explores the social, political, economic, and cultural factors encountered by populations loosely grouped as Asian and Pacific Islanders. Emphasis is placed, but is not limited to, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, and Southern Asian experiences. Such experiences include immigration, diaspora, return, identity, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, race, racism, and race relations, community development, traditional values, identity formation in the context of Euro-centric US cultures, sexuality and gender, U.S. policies, and issues of resistance, colonization, decolonization, and anti-colonialism. An analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island American perspective on cultural roots, immigration, accommodation and resistance, and settlement patterns, labor, legal, political, and social history within the context of the US Constitution and the political philosophy of its framers. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)
Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024
Location: WEB
Instructor: P Nie
Coming soon
This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Drawing from a range of interdisciplinary approaches and sources, the course explores the importance of the Asian American and Pacific Island American experience to U.S. history while also giving due consideration to the global and international forces that shaped it. In doing so, it probes the varied experiences of people identified as "Asian Americans," and "Pacific Island Americans," examining what those identities mean and how that had changed over time. The experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders will inform the analysis of broader themes including migration, diaspora, return, gender, race and racism, labor, citizenship, community, resistance and self-determination, identity formation, war, anti-colonialism, de-colonialism, and imperialism, and transnationalism. The course introduces the major themes and basic chronology of Asian American and Pacific Island American history while providing a critical perspective on the conventional narrative American history. The course analyzes the Asian American and Pacific Island American past within a context of power relations, especially hierarchies of race, gender, and class and examines the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present. Emphasis is placed on Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Asian Indian Americans, Korean Americans, Pacific Island Americans, and Southeast Asian Americans. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)
Coming soon
This course in Asian American Literature will include poetry, ballads, short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction prose. "Asian" is a broad category that includes, but is not limited to, persons who trace their roots to at least China, Japan, Korea, Burma (or Myanmar), Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Historically, industrialization, technological development, and a rejection of tradition have invoked ideologies of the "Oriental other," "the Yellow Peril," and the "model minority." But the literary works herein challenge such narratives and set the stage to examine an age marked by migration, war, imperialism, (neo)colonialism, and globalization. Students will be invited to read and discuss a variety of texts that represent Asia and the Pacific Islands during and after World War II, and that challenge ideas about the past and present, the traditional and the modern, and "the West" and "the East." Students will analyze the literature and apply critical theory to describe events in the histories, cultures, and intellectual and literary traditions, with special focus on the lived experiences, social struggles, and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawai'ians, and Pacific Islander Americans in the United States. Note: Also listed as ETHN 239. Not open to students with credit in ETHN 239. (CSU, UC)(AA/AS-C, CSU-C2)
An introduction to the social, cultural, and historical experiences of racial and ethnic groups and their roles in shaping in the United States. Focus will be on migration, colonization, racialization, racism, and discrimination, assimilation and resistance and agency, social stratification, liberation movements, and the intersection of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities as they relate to African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas/os/x, and Native Americans. Also listed as HIST 107. Not open to students with credit in HIST 107. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D,F, IGETC-4,7)
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Mon & Wed
Time: 2:00-3:20 PM
Location: 100-102A
Instructor: C Contreras
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 9:30-10:50 AM
Location: 36-150
Instructor: C Contreras
Date: Feb 3-Jun 2, 2025
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Location: 100-110
Instructor: C Contreras
A historical survey of China and Japan from prehistory to modern times. Emphasis on their comparative and intertwining histories with particular attention to historical origins, political institutions, social/economic structures, religious/philosophical beliefs, literary/cultural achievements, technological/scientific contributions, interactions with Korea and the West, participation in major wars, and current geopolitical status and power. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2,D, IGETC-3B,4)
Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024
Location: WEB
Instructor: F McMeeken
This course is a cultural and historical analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island experience from pre-colonial/pre-migration communities of Asia and the Pacific Islands, through immigration and contact with American colonial societies, and through the formation of the US and imperial expansion of the mid-1800s. This class explores the social, political, economic, and cultural factors encountered by populations loosely grouped as Asian and Pacific Islanders. Emphasis is placed, but is not limited to, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, and Southern Asian experiences. Such experiences include immigration, diaspora, return, identity, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, race, racism, and race relations, community development, traditional values, identity formation in the context of Euro-centric US cultures, sexuality and gender, U.S. policies, and issues of resistance, colonization, decolonization, and anti-colonialism. An analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island American perspective on cultural roots, immigration, accommodation and resistance, and settlement patterns, labor, legal, political, and social history within the context of the US Constitution and the political philosophy of its framers. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)
Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024
Location: WEB
Instructor: P Nie
Coming soon
This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Drawing from a range of interdisciplinary approaches and sources, the course explores the importance of the Asian American and Pacific Island American experience to U.S. history while also giving due consideration to the global and international forces that shaped it. In doing so, it probes the varied experiences of people identified as "Asian Americans," and "Pacific Island Americans," examining what those identities mean and how that had changed over time. The experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders will inform the analysis of broader themes including migration, diaspora, return, gender, race and racism, labor, citizenship, community, resistance and self-determination, identity formation, war, anti-colonialism, de-colonialism, and imperialism, and transnationalism. The course introduces the major themes and basic chronology of Asian American and Pacific Island American history while providing a critical perspective on the conventional narrative American history. The course analyzes the Asian American and Pacific Island American past within a context of power relations, especially hierarchies of race, gender, and class and examines the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present. Emphasis is placed on Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Asian Indian Americans, Korean Americans, Pacific Island Americans, and Southeast Asian Americans. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)
Coming soon
An integrated approach to the culture of East Asia from earliest civilization to present. The cultural development of Japan, China and India, as well as Southeast Asia, will be explored in relation to literature, music, drama, architecture, visual arts, and film. Cultural expression will be examined using a religious and historical context. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)
Survey of major characteristics of Japanese culture as seen in Japan today. This course will compare and contrast traditional Japanese culture and values with the modern Japanese culture. This course will examine what role history has played in the development of traditional Japanese culture and the role western culture has played in the development of the modern Japanese culture. It will examine the issues that this dichotomy creates and the relationship between Japan and the western world. This course will be taught in English. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)
Fall Date: Oct 14-Dec 16, 2024
Day: Mon & Wed
Time: 6:00-9:05 PM
Location: TBD
Instructor: M Maemoto
This course is designed to expand the student?s perspective about the nature of music around the world and also to demonstrate the relationship between musics in different cultures and will highlight elements common to all musics. Content may include the music of the cultures of India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C1, IGETC-3A)
Fall Date: Aug 19-Dec 16, 2024
Days: Tue & Thu
Time: 11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Location: 26-221
Instructor: F Bahrami
Coming Spring 2026
This course examines major Asian and Pacific philosophies, with focus on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. Special attention is given to family and the just society, and alternative conceptions of the self, time, and reality are also explored. Asian Pacific thought is an alternative to that of the Occident. These differences manifest in the larger cultural and socio-political contexts of the respective peoples. Students will emerge from this course with a greater understanding of the sources of their own fundamental beliefs. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)
Coming soon
An historical, cultural and social science based comparative analysis of the evolution and current conditions of significant political/economic/social communities within the Asian Pacific Region. The course will focus on the endurance of traditional cultures, the intermingling and grafting of the Asian traditions, the influence of Western values and institutions, socioeconomic development and change, the relationship between individuals and institutions of state, national identity and nationalism, and the importance of globalization for the region. States studied through the above lenses may include China, India, Japan, states of Southeast Asia, the Koreas, Australia, New Zealand, the Russian Pacific, the island states of the Pacific, and states of Central and South Asia. (CSU/UC) (CSU-D, IGETC-4)
Fall Date: Aug 19-Oct 12, 2024
Location: WEB
Instructor: E Burke
This course provides an overview of the variety of religious traditions and communities found throughout Asia. Students comparatively examine the beliefs, scriptures, world-views, rituals, ethics, and social systems of the religious traditions and communities throughout Asia. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-C, CSU-C2, IGETC-3B)