Crossing Borders: Hawai'i/Asia/Pacific (Osorio, Teaiwa, Trimillos, 2003).

HAPS 297A CROSSING BORDERS

Hawai‘i/Asia/Pacific

WEB 115

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Spring 2003

Dr. Jon Osorio, Dr. Katerina Teaiwa, Dr. Ricardo Trimillos

osorio@hawaii.edu

teaiwa@hawaii.edu

rtrimil@hawaii.edu

This honors course examines issues common to the Asia Pacific region with the intent of bringing a greater understanding of the setting in which we and the University of Hawai'i operate. It intends a critical examination of aspects of tradition, colonialism, and globalization, with attention to indigenous perspectives and voices. The course assumes some background in one or more of the focus regions: Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, or Asia and requires comparison among the three. It encourages independent initiative in pursuing more depth in topics of individual interest or relevance and in examining the interconnections among the three areas.

The course includes an asynchronous component, using the Blackboard platform. After accessing Blackboard http://www.maile.hawaii.edu/, follow the directions for online introduction ALN 101 to familiarize yourself with its features. Consult the HAP 297 Blackboard announcement page after Friday afternoon each week regarding activities or online discussions for the following week.

HAP 297 is an experimental course being offered for the first time. At the end of the course we welcome constructive suggestions and critique for future planning.

Course Structure

HAPS 297 is divided into three units arranged around the following themes:

Historical roots of interaction in the region

The Dynamics of Colonialism

Contemporary Realities

Dr. Osorio will cover Hawai‘i, Dr. Teaiwa, the Pacific, and Dr. Trimillos will deal with the Asia sections of each unit. While each one of us will lecture on our own area of specialty and generally attend every lecture we will definitely be present in the classroom on those days marked as “Bookend” lectures. During these meetings we will tie in each of our respective areas with assigned readings, the themes of the unit and invite critical reflection from students on the connections and differences between and within the three areas. Online discussion from the HAP 297 Blackboard will hopefully feed into these meetings as well as student exercises for each unit.

Course Assessment

We will have 3 midterms consisting of short essay questions and assign student exercises for each unit. Please refer to the attached reading and lecture guide for midterms and exercise due dates.

Midterm 1	60
Midterm 2	60
Midterm 3/Final	60
Attendance	20
3 Exercises	100
Total	300 points

Texts/Readings for Lectures:

Required:

Robert Borofsky, 2000. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts [RRP]

Mark Borthwick, 1992. The Pacific Century: Modern Pacific, Asia and

Australia [PC]

Vincente Diaz and Kehaulani Kauanui, 2001. “Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge,” The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 13:2. [TCP]

Epeli Hau’ofa, 1994. Tales from the Tikongs [TTT]

Haunani-Kay Trask, 1999. From a Native Daughter [FAND]

‘Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal Vol.1 [O]

Other readings available in the library or handouts:

Donald Denoon, Stewart Firth, Karen Nero etc. 1997. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders [CHPI]

Brij V. Lal and Kate Fortune, 2000. The Pacific Islands Encyclopedia, [PIE]

Epeli Hau’ofa. 1993. “Our Sea of Islands,” in The Contemporary Pacific 1: 148-160 [OSI]

Teresia Teaiwa, 1995. “Scholarship from a Lazy Native” in Greenwood, Neumann and Sartori, eds. Work in Flux [SLN]

Albert Wendt. 1987. “Novelists and Historians and the Art of Remembering,” in Antony Hooper, ed. Class and Culture in the South Pacific [NHAR]

DATE	LECTURE/TOPIC	READING DUE	ADD. READINGS (optional)	ASSIGN-MENT DUE	COMMENTS
Jan 13	Introductions and genealogy exercise				All lecturers present
15	Koihonua: The Story of Papa and Wakea	PC: 1-16 O: 13-35 FAND: 87-101	CHPI et al: 14-20		All lecturers present
17	Bookend Lecture 1a. “Inside Us the Dead”	RPP: 35-42 PC: 17-28			All lecturers present; Teaiwa lecture
20	Martin	Luther	King	Holiday
22	Discuss Genealogy exercise			Assignment 1 due	Osorio
24	Conquest and Power in East Asia	PC: 38-55			Trimillos
27	Human Settlement and Origin Stories	CHPI: 37-50	CHPI: 50-66 PIE: 63-69; 77-82		Teaiwa
29	Voyaging and Exchange: Moikeha, Hilo and Cook	RPP: 112-132			Osorio
31	Maritime Settlers, Trade and the Sea	PC: 56-68			Trimillos
Feb 3	Peoples of the Land and Sea	CHPI: 74-96	PIE: 343-347 CHPI: 74-77		Teaiwa
5	The Ahapua‘a and subsisting on the land	O: 147-154			Osorio
7	Religion and Belief in Asia	PC: 29-38
10	Bookend Lecture 1 b. Indigenous Approaches to the Past	RPP: 78-91	NHAR		All lecturers present; Teaiwa lecture
12	The Arts and Cultural Identity				Trimillos
14	Video: Pele’s Appeal	FAND: 123-136			Osorio
17	HOLIDAY
19	MID TERM 1				Osorio
21	Bookend 2a. Colonialism and Disruption				All lecturers present; Trimillos lecture
24	Colonial Encounters in the Pacific	PIE: 147- 173	RPP: 101-111 PIE: 82-88 RPP: 152-168 CHPI: 243-249		Teaiwa
26	Haole Perceptions of the ‘Oiwi: Cook, Bingham and Others				Osorio
28	Colonial Process in South-East Asia	PC: 100-117			Trimillos
Mar 3	Colonialism- political and economic changes	PIE: 229-241; 334-335	PIE: 347-354 PIE: 213-215 CHPI: 253-278		Teaiwa
5	Conversions of Spirit and Space	TCP: 359-379			Osorio
7	Russia in Asia	PC: 487-506			Trimillos
10	Cultural and Religious Change in the Pacific	RPP: 231-246 TTT: 1-10	PIE: 175-187 CHPI: 194-200		Teaiwa
12	The Plantation Legacies: Land and Capital Concentration				Osorio
14	War and militarism in the Pacific	PC: 108-109, 163-169, 234-235			Trimillos
17	Bookend 2b. Colonialism in and of Asia	PIE: 243-253 RPP: 288-295	CHPI: 291-311		Teaiwa
19				Assignment 2 due	All lecturers present; Trimillos lecture
21	MID TERM 2				Osorio
24-28	SPRING	BREAK
31	Bookend 3a. The Value of Cultural Studies in Hawai‘i	TCP: 381-404			All lecturers present; Osorio lecture
April 2	Decolonization and “Independence”	RPP: 314-33 TTT: 48-67	CHPI: 439-467		Teaiwa
4	China: The Awake Dragon	PC: 415-454			Trimillos
7	Power and “Development”	TTT: 11-26, 83-93 RPP: 333-337	PIE: 366-381; 389-402		Teaiwa
9	The “Peaceful Sea”: Pearl Harbor to Kaho‘olawe: “Kua‘a ‘Aina	FAND: 65-87			Osorio
April 11	Vietnam and the US	PC: 388-401			Trimillos
14	Cultural Revitalization	OSI: 148-160	PIE: 483- 516		Teaiwa
16	The Democratic Revolution in Hawai‘I				Osorio
18	GOOD	FRIDAY
21	“Post” Colonialism	SLN RPP: 383-384 TTT: 68-74	PIE: 516-538		Teaiwa
23	Aloha Aina & the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement	O: 40-75 RPP: 358-360			Osorio
25	Asia and Globalization	PC: 507-530			Trimillos
28	Creative Survival in the Pacific	TCP: 417- 467	PIE: 538-556		Teaiwa
30	Race, Justice, Democracy and other pressing issues in Hawai‘i	O: 194-213			Osorio
May 2	Asia Reaches into the Pacific				Trimillos
5	Micronesia and the nuclear issue				Teaiwa
May 7	Bookend 3b. TBA			Assignment 3 due	All lecturers present; Osorio lecture
12	MONDAY	FINAL EXAM (MID TERM 3)	9:45-11:45

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