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.

  1. Asian Market course
    Photo credit: Anna Guevarra
    Students presenting their adbuster project in Prof. Anna Guevarra's 2018 "GLAS 290: Asian Markets, Corporations, and Social Justice" course
  2. Hip Hop course
    Photo credit: Liz Thomson
    Students from Prof. Lorenzo Perillo's 2018 "GLAS 223: Global Hip Hop and Asian Diasporas" course performing at the 2017 GLASapalooza event
  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
  4. glas 105
    Student from Prof. Karen Su's 2015 "GLAS 105: Asian American Picture Books and Graphic Novels" course
  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.
  10. Japan Study Abroad
    Photo credit: Karen Su
    Students from the 2014 Study Abroad in Japan taught by Prof. Karen Su and Visiting Professor Laura Fugikawa
  11. students in India
    Photo credit: Anna Guevarra
    Students from Professors Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra's 2012 Study Abroad Course in India
  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