Courses

The Global Asian Studies Program offers courses that are interdisciplinary and intersectional and reflect transformative, innovative, and critical pedagogies that engage with communities locally and globally.

  3. Arab American Studies course
    Photo credit: Liz Thomson
    Students from Prof. Nadine Naber's "GLAS 290: Introduction to Arab American Studies" presenting their video project during the 2017 GLASapalooza event
  5. Elena- GLAS 300
    Photo credit: Hunter Atha
    Student from Prof. Anna Guevarra's 2018 "GLAS 300: Global Asia in Chicago" course sharing her digital story of Uptown/capstone project to Prof. Ronak Kapadia
  6. Hiroshima
    Photo credit: Jill Huynh
    Mr. Takashi Teramoto, an atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima presenting a lecture in Prof. Michael Jin's "GLAS 100: Introduction to Global Asian Studies" course
  7. food class
    Photo credit: Anna Guevarra
    A student taking a photograph during the field trip to the Global Gardens Refugee Training Farm in Prof. Guevarra's GLAS 230: Cultural Politics of Asian American Food class
  8. AAMP
    Photo credit: Liz Thomson
    Students learning about "Asian American and Pacific Islander College Student Experiences" through a GLAS course that is a curricular partnership with AARCC's Asian American Mentor Program (AAMP) taught by Prof. Karen Su and Jeff Alton
  9. falling petals
    The "crew" of "Falling Petals," a 2011 production that stemmed from a course taught by Visiting Professor Rooshey Hasnain in collaboration with a non-profit arts organization, Erasing the Distance.
  12. Uptown
    Photo credit: Anna Guevarra
    Steve Moon, Director of Organizing at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago hosting a political tour of Uptown for students in Prof. Anna Guevarra's "GLAS 300: Global Asia in Chicago" course