Courses listed below are associated with the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program. They include classes from across the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools — each with a focus on Asian American content.
Course Numbering | Curriculum Codes (for students entering prior to 2025) | |
| 0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose 100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses 200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level 400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses 500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates 700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates) | Areas of Knowledge
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Required Course for Minor (choose one)
| Number | Title | Codes | Cross-Lists |
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| AADS 198 | Introduction to Asian American History | CCI, IJ, CZ | AMES 198 HISTORY 198 |
| AADS 201 | Introduction to Asian American and Diaspora Studies | CCI, HI, ALP, CZ | AMES 276 ENGLISH 275 GSF 203 HISTORY 274 ICS 286 |
| AADS 274S | Introduction to Asian American Literature | CCI, HI, ALP | AMES 274S ENGLISH 274S LIT 277S |
Electives for Minor (choose four)
Students may petition to have one course from the list of “Other Courses of Interest” below as an elective for the AADS minor. Contact the Director for more information.
| Number | Title | Codes | Cross-Lists |
|---|---|---|---|
| AADS 89S | Special Topics in First-Year Seminar | ||
| AADS 120CN | Asian Foodways in Migration | HI | AMES 120CN ICS 127CN |
| AADS 121CN | Sex and Power in Asian Diasporas | HI | AMES 121CN GSF 121CN |
| AADS 138 | Popular Music of Asia and Asian America | CCI, HI, ALP | AMES 137 CULANTH 138 MUSIC 138 |
| AADS 150CNS | Asian Diasporic Musicking | HI | CULANTH 160CNS MUSIC 150CNS |
| AADS 152CNS | Visualizing Minor Stories: Archives, Museums, Histories | HI | AMES 152CNS ARTSVIS 152CNS DOCST 152CNS HISTORY 152CNS ICS 155CNS |
| AADS 190S | Special Topics in Asian American and Diaspora Studies | ||
| AADS 229S | Asian American Community History | CCI, R, CZ | HISTORY 229S |
| AADS 232S | Asian American Theater | CCI, HI, ALP | AMES 182S ENGLISH 387S HISTORY 293S THEATRST 232S |
| AADS 240S | Asian American & Diaspora Psychology: Mental Health, Microaggressions, and the Model Minority Myth | CCI, EI, SS | GLHLTH 240S PSY 241S |
| AADS 254S | Unsettling Modernity: Korea, Empire, Diaspora | CCI, W, IJ, CZ | AMES 254S HISTORY 252S LIT 254S |
| AADS 290 | Special Topics in Asian American and Diaspora Studies | ||
| AADS 290S | Special Topics in Asian American and Diaspora Studies | ||
| AADS 313S | Race and Medicine | CCI, SS | AAAS 313S CULANTH 313S GLHLTH 313S GSF 313S SOCIOL 314S |
| AADS 320S | Asian American and Latinx Literature and Film | CCI, ALP | AMES 320S ENGLISH 350S LSGS 320S |
| AADS 335 | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | CCI, R, HI, ALP, CZ | AMES 335 HISTORY 228 ICS 336 |
| AADS 337S | Decolonization: Histories, Meanings, Struggles | CCI, EI, CZ, SS | GSF 335S HISTORY 289S ICS 335S |
| AADS 338S | Global South Asia: History and Culture of Diaspora | CCI, IJ, CZ | AMES 388S GSF 288S HISTORY 298S ICS 388S |
| AADS 339 | Critical Militarism Studies across Asia/Pacific/America | CCI, EI, IJ, SS | AMES 339 GSF 339 HISTORY 339 ICS 387 |
| AADS 364S | Race, Gender, and Sexuality | CCI, HI, IJ, SS | AAAS 242S GSF 364S SOCIOL 364S |
| AADS 372 | Two Koreas and the United States: History, Society, and Culture | CCI, R, W, SB, ALP, CZ | AMES 372 CULANTH 473 GSF 372 HISTORY 473 ICS 378 SOCIOL 373 |
| AADS 382S | Intimacies: Sexuality, Nation, and the State | CCI, EI, W, HI, CZ | GSF 382S |
| AADS 452 | Contemporary Chinese Dance in the Diaspora | CCI, CE, ALP | DANCE 452 |
| AADS 490S | Special Topics in Asian American and Diaspora Studies | ||
| AADS 510S | New Directions in Asian American Studies | CCI, R, CZ | AMES 550S GSF 510S HISTORY 510S |
| AADS 690S | Special Topics Seminar in Asian American and Diaspora Studies | ||
| AMES 171 | World of Korean and Diaspora Cinema | CCI, EI, HI, ALP, CZ | AADS 171 CINE 256 CULANTH 255 LIT 212 VMS 234 |
| AMES 230S | Islam in the Americas | CCI, W, CZ, SS | AAAS 274S HISTORY 351S RELIGION 384S RIGHTS 374S |
| AMES 309 | Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US | CCI, EI, HI, ALP, SS | AADS 309 RIGHTS 309 |
| AMES 335 | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | CCI, R, HI, ALP, CZ | AADS 335 HISTORY 228 ICS 336 |
| AMES 438S | Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction | CCI, HI, ALP, CZ | CULANTH 438S GSF 438S ICS 407S LIT 438S VMS 438S |
| AMES 609S | Transpacific and Global Asia/America: Connecting Divided Histories and Knowledges | CCI, HI, ALP | AADS 609S ARTHIST 609S CINE 609S CULANTH 609S GSF 609S |
| CULANTH 220FS | Global 'Mixed Race' Studies | CCI, EI, STS, SS | AAAS 250FS |
| EDUC 345S | Asians in American Higher Education: Trends and Issues | CCI, EI, R, SS | SOCIOL 346S |
| GSF 382S | Intimacies: Sexuality, Nation, and the State | CCI, EI, W, HI, CZ | AADS 382S |
| HISTORY 183S | Gateway Seminar: Civil Rights and Asian Americans | CCI, EI, R, IJ, CZ, SS | AAAS 133S AADS 183S AMES 187S ICS 183S PUBPOL 175S RIGHTS 183S |
| HISTORY 454S | Capstone Seminar - Globalization: Asia and Asian America | CCI, R, STS, CZ, SS | AAAS 407S AADS 454S AMES 437S GSF 412S ICS 412S |
| ICS 297S | Cross-Cultural Encounters | CCI, CZ | AMES 235S HISTORY 243S MEDREN 253S RELIGION 235S |
| ICS 388S | Global South Asia: History and Culture of Diaspora | CCI, IJ, CZ | AADS 338S AMES 388S GSF 288S HISTORY 298S |
| POLSCI 205 | Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics | CCI, SS | AAAS 257 AADS 205 RIGHTS 205 |
| RELIGION 320S | Modern Buddhism in Asia and America | CCI, CZ | AMES 323S |