The department offers content courses in Asian American studies, houses the Asian
American Studies Learning Community, and develops programming for the interdisciplinary
field, such as the annual Undergraduate Symposium on Asians in the Americas and
the Diaspora. The field of Asian
American studies explores the politics and history of racialization of
Asian-descent peoples, including East, South, Southeast, and Southwest Asian
Americans, both within the United States and in the Americas. These multiple diasporic groups share
historical and legal connections with other racial and ethnic groups in the
United States.
