Course Schedule

Weeks 1-3 | Weeks 4-6 | Weeks 7-9 | Weeks 10-12 | Weeks 13-14

Week Four
  • February 18 - Primary Instructor: Charles Lee
     - Hmong oral tradition today
    Reading Hmong Lives, pp. 82-195
  • February 20 - Primary Instructor: Jac Bulk
     - Hmong refugee settlement patterns in the USA and France
    - Comparative refugee settlement patterns and issues
    Reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, pp. 225-249
    Class Handout American Hmong on the Move: An Explanation of Very Distinctive Secondary Migration, p. 3-28
Week Five
  • February 25 - Primary Instructor: Jac Bulk
     EXAM ONE
  • February 27 - Primary Instructor: Tony Yang
     - The Hmong Clan System
    - Hmong leadership
    - Clan obligation
    Reading The Promised Land, pp. 25, 26, and 83
    Class Handout by Pao Saykao, pp. 1-10
Week Six
  • March 4 - Primary Instructor: Neng Xiong/Maomoua Vue
     - Hmong family roles: husband and wife roles
    1. traditional
    2. modern
    - Hmong wedding ceremony
    Class Handout New Pioneers in the Heartland, Chapter 3, pp. 37-50
    Reading Generational Conflict among the Hmong in the United States, pp. 35-38
    Class Handout Early Marriage in a Hmong Cohort, pp. 579-588
  • March 6 - Primary Instructor: Tony Yang/Maomoua Vue
     - Hmong family roles: child-rearing practices
    1. traditional
    2. modern
    - Hmong nutritional issues
    Class Handout When I Had my Baby Here!, pp. 1-10
Weeks 1-3 | Weeks 4-6 | Weeks 7-9 | Weeks 10-12 | Weeks 13-14

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