Course Calendar

–Dates are subject to change, but announcements will be made–

Wk Date Topics Readings Important events
Introduction
1 M Jan 8 Syllabus day and History
W Jan 10 Academic literacy Becker (1996)
Jones (2010)
TCPS2 Certificate due Friday (Jan 12)
Migration
2 M Jan 15 Hussein (2009)
W Jan 17 History of HK-Canada migration
Webinar video: What is Diaspora?
Butler (2001)
UBC HKSI (2022a)
No class – watch webinar video for discussion Mon
Final class to withdraw without W
3 M Jan 22 Chan (1995)
W Jan 24 Chan (2022)
Yu (2019)
4 M Jan 29 Colonialism: Then and now Lai (2018)
Luk (1991)
W Jan 31 Movie 1: Lawyer Lawyer
Movie 2: All Our Father’s Relations
Ma (1997)
Yoshizawa (2016)
No class – watch movie for discussion Mon
Identity
5 M Feb 5 Chen (2019)
Lau (2020)
W Feb 7 Cultural Identity Veg (2017)
Wong (2005)
6 M Feb 12 Webinar video: Hong Kong Identity Matthews (1997)
UBC HKSI (2022b)
No class – watch webinar video for discussion Wed
W Feb 14 Lan (2012)
Li & Findlay (1996)
Xu & Vanderkilppe (2019)
Week 7 – February 19-23: Reading Week 2022
Experience
8 M Feb 26 Acculturation Cheung et al. (2011)
Schwartz et al. (2014)
W Feb 28 Bélanger & Verkuyten (2010)
Lo et al. (2014)
Last class to withdraw with W
9 M Mar 4 Language Yim & Clément (2019)
Yim & Clément (2021)
W Mar 6 Chiang & Shen (2023)
Pai & White (2023a)
Pai & White (2023b)
10 M Mar 11 Reverse migration & transnationalism Fong (2012)
Ngan & Chan (2023)
Yan (2021)
W Mar 13 Family arrangements Irving et al. (1999)
Tse & Waters (2013)
11 M Mar 18 Diasporic guilt Tam (2021)
Tang (2021)
W Mar 20 Globalization and social mobilization Blunt (2007)
de Leon (2018)
More perspectives
12 M Mar 25 ADHK (2019)
Lee (2023)
SCMP (2022)
W Mar 27 Mental health Chan et al. (2009)
Madokoro (2011)
13 M Apr 1 Easter Monday – University closed
W Apr 3 Intersectional perspectives Parsons (2020)
Preston et al. (2005)
Suen & Chan (2020)
14 M Apr 8 Tentative: Wong (2022)
W Apr 10 Wrap-up/review No readings