Fall 2026 Courses

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(World Cultures)

Michael Jin

MW 3:00pm-3:50pm
LEC | CRN 40132 | BSB 140

F 1:00pm – 1:50pm
DIS | CRN 40118 | ETM&SW 2233

F 11:00am – 11:50am
DIS | CRN 40119 | 2ETM&SW 2235

F 12:00pm – 12:50pm
DIS | CRN 40120 | 2ETM&SW 2417

F 3:00pm – 3:50pm
DIS | CRN 40121 | 2ETM&SW 2219

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This course examines various historical, cultural and political representations of Asia, Asian America, and Asians in the world. Students will explore how peoples and ideas from Asia and across transoceanic and transnational diasporas have influenced a globalized world and continue to inform our contemporary understanding of Asia and Asian America. The course also examines how historical issues such as colonialism, war, gobal capitalism, and migration have shaped the experiences and representations of Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and peoples in Asian diasporas.

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To sign up for GLAS 105 and AAMP, please fill out go.uic.edu/aampform

Julian Rey Ignacio

TR 12:30am – 1:20pm
CRN 40130 | ETM&SW 2217

F 11:00am – 11:50am
CRN 40127 | ETM&SW 2233

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This seminar is part of the Asian American Mentor Program, a unique program designed to support new first-year or transfer students in their first semester at UIC. The weekly seminar focuses on Asian American identities, cultures, and communities. We will critically examine historical events, the media, popular culture, and personal narratives to study how social, academic, personal, and community issues impact Asian Americans, while paying attention to distinctions between Asian American and Pacific Islander identities and issues. In addition, students will be introduced to college life and campus resources to ease the transition to UIC.

GLAS 105 is an LAS First-Year Seminar offering (see booklet pdf), but is open to students from any College.

Viraj Patel

F 12:00pm – 12:50pm
CRN 40131 | ETM&SW 2419

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Taught by staff at the Asian American Student Academic Program, the class will focus on life skills that can be useful now and after college with a foundation rooted in Asian American and Pacific Islander and intersecting PC experiences.

(Individual and Society, and Understanding US Society)

Karen Su

MWF 2:00pm – 2:50pm | Lecture Center A004

GLAS CRN 40123 (LEC) & 40124 (DIS)
SOC CRN 40270 (LEC) & 40269 (DIS)

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This course is a legacy of the hard-fought struggles by students, staff and faculty for Asian American studies at UIC since 1991. It serves as a space for students of all backgrounds to gain an introduction to the histories, community institutions and contemporary issues of Asian Americans and Asian diasporics across the globe.

This course makes use of critical thinking, critical creativity, and analytical writing as ways of knowing Asian America.

Bridget Wang and Xuehua Xiang

MWF 1:00pm – 1:50pm | BSB 119

GLAS CRN 40023
CHIN CRN 37488

Chinese culture as reflected in language, communication, daily life, and creative works. Intensive listening, speaking, reading and writing at the intermediate-advanced level.

Anna Guevarra

TR 12:30pm – 01:45pm  | CRN 44735 |
Lecture Center A002

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This course unpacks the long histories, migrations, culture, and politics of the Filipinx/a/o diaspora using a variety of texts, including ethnographies, literature, films, poetry, and art. We explore these issues from a critical and social justice lens that are attentive to histories of US imperialism and colonialism and their impacts on processes of racialization and activism, as well as intersectional analyses of identity and community formations in their wake. The course provides an opportunity to engage with and learn from the Chicago Filipinx/a/o American communities.

(World Cultures)

Mark Chiang

MW 3:30pm – 4:45pm | BSB 381

GLAS CRN 42048
ENGL CRN 43803
MOVI CRN 43802

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This class will introduce students to some of the landmark films of Asian and Asian American cinematic history. While we will attend to the technical elements of film as an artform, the class will mostly explore the social and historical contexts of these films in order to develop a sense of the trajectory of Asia and the Asian diaspora over the course of the 20th century. Coursework will include essays and short writing assignments, as well as a final project. Students will be expected to view the films outside of class—access will be provided. Films for the class will include work by directors such as Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Akira Kurosawa, Lino Brocka, John Woo, Satyajit Ray, Asghar Farhadi, and others.

Anna Guevarra

T 3:30pm – 6:00pm | CRN 40125 | Lincoln Hall 107

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Using Asian and Asian American histories and diaspora as a lens, and food as a storyteller, this interdisciplinary course focuses on exploring the nexus of food and migration. It builds on the thematic of food as sanctuary as we learn to see food as a rich medium for exploring histories, understanding social movements, telling stories and building community. We learn how cooking is a way of nourishing our creativity as well as a means of resistance as we prepare meals and eat together in the historic Hull House kitchen and dining hall. We honor the land and our community and family traditions. We work together to try to cultivate hope and strength in these challenging times.

There is a course fee of $30 for the entire semester to cover cost of food and supplies.

(World Cultures)

Yue Zhang

MW 9:30am – 10:45am | BSB 1171

GLAS CRN 40034
POLS CRN 39407

Main issues of contemporary Chinese politics and social change; the decline of the last imperial dynasty; the republican era; the rise of communism and China under the rule of Mao Zedong; and the reform period (post-1978).

Nadine Naber

TR 2:00pm – 3:15pm | BSB 115

GLAS CRN 48375

Addresses key themes in Arab American Studies: immigration and racism; family, gender, and sexuality; socio-economic class; religious affiliation; arts and cultures; and politics and political activism

(US Society and World Cultures)

Gayatri Reddy

TR 11:00am – 12:15pm | ETMSW 2419

GLAS CRN 46497
ANTH CRN 46499
GWS CRN 46498

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A comparative study of contemporary Arab and Asian communities in the US and around the globe that examines issues of militarism/war; immigration/displacement; racism; and social justice activism.

(The Past and US Society)

A. Naomi Paik

TR 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Lincoln Hall 103

GLAS CRN 48694
BLST CRN 48695

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This interdisciplinary course examines histories and narratives of U.S. imperialism and racism. Its investigation begins from the following concepts: the United States has long held and continues to maintain imperial powers across the globe, and U.S. imperial power is inextricably tied to the workings of racial hierarchy. Drawing on critical ethnic and feminist studies, this course focuses on imperial and racist power not only in more obvious sites of government action (like military bases or warfare), but also in an extensive range of everyday practices in which ordinary people participate, like consuming products produced abroad or migrating from colonized countries.

Michael Jin

MWF 1:00pm – 1:50pm | Lincoln Hall 305

GLAS CRN 51049
HIST CRN 51048
MUS CRN 51050

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This course explores the history of modern Korea and global Korean diaspora through music. From Pansori to modern K-pop, students will examine selected genres of popular culture as a window into major historical forces of the long twentieth century —such as colonialism, war, political repression, social movement, democratization, and globalization—that have shaped historical perspectives, politics views, and social and cultural values in modern Korea and Korean diaspora.

Justin Quang Nguyên Phan

TR 11:00am – 12:15pm | BSB 161

GLAS CRN 50718
ANTH CRN
HIST CRN

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This course explores the history Vietnamese American histories, culture, politics, and creative arts in comparative, relational, and transnational perspectives. Emphasis on artists, activists, and scholars living in Vietnam and in the diaspora.

(The Past and World Cultures)

Rama Mantena

Online with deadlines

GLAS CRN 48728 (LEC), 50643 (DIS)
HIST CRN 48726 (LEC), 48727 (DIS)

Examines anti-colonial resistance to British rule starting with the 1857 Revolt, Indian nationalism, and the formation of independent nation-states in South Asia.

Justin Quang Nguyên Phan

TR 9:30am – 10:45am | BSB 281

GLAS CRN 43310, CRN 43311
GWS CRN 43310

This course examines the arrival and settlement of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Syrian-Lebanese migrants in Latin America between the mid-nineteenth century and the present.

The last few weeks would focus on the onward migration of Asian migrants from Latin America to the United States and the construction of an “Asian Latino” identity in this country.

Catherine Becker

M 3:00pm – 5:30pm | SEO 1120

GLAS CRN 40019, CRN 40020

Ghosts, spirits, apparitions: how might these powerful figments of the imagination function as methodological tools for examining political, social, and cultural concepts and contestations?

Celeste Aguirre
CRN 48227

Mark Chiang
CRN 40141

Fredy González
CRN 45569

Anna Guevarra
CRN 40142

Julian Rey Ignacio
CRN 45570

Michael Jin
CRN 40143

Clare Kim
CRN 47152

Michelle Lee
CRN 49716

Nadine Naber
CRN 40144

Mark Martell
CRN 40907

A. Naomi Paik
CRN 47153

Viraj Patel
CRN 50468

Justin Phan
CRN 40145

Gayatri Reddy
CRN 43730

Karen Su
CRN 40146