2024年春季即将到来

It’s exciting news that Poly will be offering a new course, 亚裔美国人历史, in spring 2024 for students in Grades 10-12. It is impressive that 上学校 history teacher 蒂姆·谢伊 一起开发课程 威廉·凌里根，1924年 作为一个独立的研究项目. During his tenure in Middle and 上学校, Ling-Regan has been an avid student of history and active member of Poly’s 历史俱乐部.

弥合历史鸿沟

“We are excited to offer 亚裔美国人历史 this spring as this course is one step in addressing a gap in the department’s teaching of American history,” Dr. 弗吉尼亚·狄龙，历史系系主任. Dr. Dillon said that the course “gives both a wonderful opportunity to collaborate as they consider not only the many nuances of this varied and important history, but also how to most effectively lead future students through a process of discovery and meaning making.”

“Our goal is to make this class research- and project-based, so I hope that students will come away with the same sense of agency in their own learning that Mr. Shea has given me in this independent study.”

威廉·凌里根，1924年

A Poly First: Student-Teacher Course Development

“去年，我的教务长. 黄先生告诉我. Shea was developing a new 亚裔美国人历史 course,” Ling-Regan said. “He knew that I was interested in the subject because of the documentary I created in 历史俱乐部 去年 全国历史日竞赛, ‘The Camera as a Sword: Asian American Representation in Corky Lee’s Photography,他问我是否愿意帮助他. Shea with the development of the new course. 在与他和奥巴马女士进行了更多的交谈之后. Moslander [former 历史 Department Chair], I knew I wanted to be involved with this course however I could be. 所以，去年春天，我遇到了. Shea to talk about his ideas for the course and how I could get involved, and we came up with the idea of doing this independent study together.”

孟加拉哈莱姆 and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

An observer, who sat in as Shea and Ling-Regan discussed sections from 孟加拉哈莱姆 and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald, asked if they had an outline for the course. “这就是我们正在创造的!谢伊回答道. “The idea of this course is to set up a framework for Asian American history within which students can explore their interests.”

的选择 孟加拉哈莱姆 came from our desire to focus on communities and community construction among multiple Asian American groups,谢伊解释道. “In working to develop a central research project, 威廉提出多层次, annotated map project that focused on a particular place where Asian Americans lived. Therefore, we wanted to think about how scholars write about those places ​​— and Vivek Bald’s 孟加拉哈莱姆 proved to be fertile ground for thinking about the scope of just such a project. 虽然名为 孟加拉哈莱姆, the book really is a story of so many different places in the United States — from New Orleans to the Jersey Shore to Harlem — and how networks of Bengali Muslim men wove themselves into the fabric of each location while also remaining remarkably mobile. 你如何绘制这个? We are now beginning to look at Erika Lee’s 2015 book 亚裔美国人的形成 to help us shape the historical context we’ll want to bring to the course.”

课程时代概述

The history of Asian Americans sounds like a very wide-ranging topic. 这堂课将涵盖什么时代? “It is likely that this course will start by thinking about migration beginning in the 16th century and the movement of Asian people along the routes of Spanish Empire, particularly the roundtrip routes from Manila to Acapulco — known as the Manila Galleon — overland to Veracruz, 然后是韦拉克鲁斯到西班牙,他解释道. “But the primary period of the course will be from the 1850s to the present, as this a period in which migration changes rapidly, both through increasing numbers of people coming to the United States and race-based exclusion of Asian people emerging at the state and then federal level in the United States. 这将是一个以项目为基础的课程, so students will have a lot of freedom to explore the groups and migration histories in which they are interested.”

Exploring the Many Facets of 亚裔美国人历史

What is the experience of developing the course like for Ling-Regan? “One thing I’ve taken away from this independent study is how multidimensional Asian American history is,他说. “We’ve already talked about so many different aspects of Asian American history, 从移民到社区再到食物, and it’s been really interesting to learn about new parts of this history and find connections between them.” He added, “I hope students leave this course with an understanding of this multidimensionality. 我也很感激Mr. Shea has allowed me to be involved in developing this course. We’ve been discussing readings about Asian American history and how to teach it, and then I came up with some ideas for a final project, 就像一张标注过的地图, that we’re now working together to flesh out. Our goal is to make this class research- and project-based, so I hope that students will come away with the same sense of agency in their own learning that Mr. Shea has given me in this independent study.”