HON 368 - The Rise of Asian American Leaders in Business

Only Honors students can take this class unless approval is given by professor and Honors Director. Asians originally immigrated as workers to the United States starting with lower skilled jobs of farming, manual labor for rail projects, and others. Facing language barriers, intolerance, and exclusion some Asian Americans later started their own small-scale family run businesses. Over time, the next generation of these Asian families, often born in the US, gained greater skills, confidence, education, and acceptance by American corporations for managerial and supervisory positions. Also, immigration policy reforms in the 1960s and later favored skilled and educated immigrants from Asia. Today, several large American corporations have Asian Americans in Senior positions such as Chief Executive Officer, President, Vice-President, Managing Director, Chief Information Officer, and others administrator job titles. This class reviews historical, cultural, societal, economic, and technical shifts in the US and Asia that have led to the rise of Asian Americans in senior corporate leadership roles in the US. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits