Asian American Studies focuses on exploring the historical and current presence of Asians in the Americas. The field aims to understand both how people from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia have been racialized in the context of the United States, as well as how Asian Americans have constructed their identity and stories. This cluster also explores ideas of diasporic identity and transnational migrations and how they shape Asian America. Understanding the social and historical presence of Asians in America is crucial to an understanding of racial formation, immigration, citizenship, and nationality in the United States.
Asian American Studies examines the experience of Asians in the United States, and how the unique history of marginalization and exclusion informs today’s issues within the Asian American community. 

The Asian American Studies course cluster introduces students to the central concepts of racialization, migration, and intersectionality as they relate to Asians in the United States. The cluster is interdisciplinary, incorporating perspectives from the humanities and social sciences.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
AMST273	South Asian Literature in the American Diasporas	1
AMST291	Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas	1
CEAS218	"Other Chinas": Literature from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Sinophone Southeast Asia	1
CEAS355	Between Asia and Asian America	1
ENGL165F	Querying the Nation: American Literature and Ethnic Studies (FYS)	1
ENGL230	Introduction to Asian American Literature	1
ENGL244	Kill Anything That Moves: The Vietnam War in Literature and Film	1
ENGL361	After Orientalism: Asian American Literature and Theory After 2000	1
RELI221	Islam and Muslim Cultures: Introduction with Case Studies	1
RELI230	Cinematic Encounters: Muslims and/in/of the West	1
SOC309	America's Lure: The Politics of the Transnational US University	1
SPAN285	Asian Latino Encounters	1
STS342	Queer Robotics: Cyborgs in Science Fiction & Anthropology	1