ASAM-MIN - Asian American Stu (Minor)

The Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) explores how race and ethnicity shape global history, undergird our social systems, and touch every aspect of our lives. Our courses empower students with the tools to assess and build inclusivity, equity, diversity, accessibility, and justice. CCSRE programs—encompassing Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies—take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how gender, sexuality, ability, capital, technology, education, politics, and the environment structure our bodies, experiences, and communities. Students have the option to focus on particular racial and ethnic groups and on issues that move across peoples and places. 

The interdisciplinary nature of the academic programs empowers students to enroll in a wide variety of courses. CCSRE listings can be found in Anthropology, Art and Art History, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, and more. Majors and minors in CCSRE engage with various perspectives and methodologies and grapple with pivotal themes, including decolonization, indigeneity, intersectionality, movement-building, resistance, solidarity, and wellness. By analyzing interlocking structures of identity and difference, CCSRE students interrogate the role of power, reimagine the world, and reclaim the future.

Born out of the 1960s movements for student activism and third-world liberation, Asian American Studies offers students intellectual frameworks and tools to examine issues relevant to Asian America and beyond.

 Visit the Asian American Studies website for more information about the program and how to declare the minor.

Program Learning Outcomes:

The Program in Asian American Studies expects that undergraduate minors concluding their course of study will be able to:

• Mobilize comparative frameworks for analyzing how race and ethnicity develop historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally

• Understand, interpret, and utilize trans- and interdisciplinary theories and methods in the study of race and ethnicity

• Critically engage with primary and secondary sources and use both types of evidence in research and argumentation

• Effectively communicate data, research, and arguments to diverse audiences

• Apply a core inventory of theories, methods, and concepts to local and global contexts

• Examine the artistic, historical, humanistic, political, and social dimensions of Asian America

• Interrogate intersections of power across multiple communities and varied identities of Asian America