UIC GLAS

The Global Asian Studies (GLAS) program at the University of Illinois in Chicago explores the histories, identities, cultural expressions, social and community formations, and politics of people of Asian ancestry (including but not limited to those from East Asia, South
 Asia, and Southeast Asia) in the United States. GLAS will create opportunities in the classroom, in scholarship, and through campus and community advocacy for students to comprehend Asian and Asian American experiences as fundamental to the fabric of U.S. society and as linked to the experiences of other communities of color in the United States as well as Asian diasporas globally. Program courses will provide a transformative education that is interdisciplinary in approach that reflects the program’s four thematic foci: Transnational/diasporic studies, Intersectional Race/Gender studies, Community Engagement, and Activism and Social Justice.