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Message from the Chair
The Asian Pacific Studies Department offers an interdisciplinary major and minor in the study of Asian and Pacific Islander societies and cultures, emphasizing a transnational perspective.
The major and minor in Asian Pacific Studies are designed for students seeking to either complement their studies of other civilizations and cultures or to pursue graduate study, Foreign Service, international business, teaching careers, or work in health science fields and community services. It is structured to provide an understanding of the social, political, and cultural aspects of Asia and the Pacific region through courses in Asian and Pacific history, politics, art, literature, language, popular culture and philosophy. It also provides an understanding of the transnational connections between the Asian Pacific region and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as well as the history and contemporary issues of Asian American and Pacific Islander populations.
If you are interested in learning about the Asian Pacific peoples and cultures and/or Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, please contact us at asianpacific@csudh.edu.
Asian Pacific Studies Undergraduate Programs
The major and minor in Asian Pacific Studies are designed for students seeking to complement their studies of other civilizations, cultures, and/or racial and ethnic communities in the United States. They also benefit students seeking to pursue graduate study and/or careers in the foreign service, international business, teaching, or health science and community services.
There are two concentrations within the Asian-Pacific Studies Major:
Asian Pacific Studies
Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students willidentifyand compare geographies of the Asian and Pacific regions and/or聽the demographic聽diversity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in the United States.聽
- Students will explain cultural traditions, histories, and sociopolitical issues of the Asian andPacific regionsand/or AAPI communities in the United States.聽
- Students willutilizecore concepts and theories of Asian Studies, Pacific Studies, and Asian American Studies to analyze historical events, cultural transformations, and intellectual traditions of Asian and Pacific nations and AAPI communities in the United States.聽聽
- Students will evaluate how the histories and structures of oppression, specifically as they relate to ethnicity, race, class, and gender/sexuality,impactthe experiences and intersectional identities聽of Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders.聽
- Students will engage in practical learning byparticipatingin civic engagement, activism opportunities, internships, and community-based events within AAPI communities to foster聽diversity, social聽justice, and equity beyond the classroom.聽