Overview

Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago engages in an interdisciplinary study of Asia, as well as transoceanic and transnational Asian diasporas, and provides a framework for understanding how Asians and Asian Americans have contributed to the making of our modern globalized world. It emphasizes the study of Asian geographies, histories, languages, cultures, and politics, including, and especially, Asian and Asian American histories and cultures, even as it interrogates the frames of area studies and ethnic studies within which such analyses have traditionally been located. With its emphasis on diasporas, transnationalism, and comparative ethnic/racial studies, Global Asian Studies aims to better understand the globalized world we live in, and redress some of the shortcomings of a limited focus on area (Asian studies) and ethnic studies (Asian American Studies) frames of analysis.

Key Features

Global Asian Studies also reflects current knowledge formations in relation to new immigration patterns and historical shifts in U.S. and global racial formations, including an emphasis on lslamaphobia, new Orientalisms, and anti-Black, as well as anti-Arab/Muslim, racisms. Anchored by an intersectional, social justice, and community-engaged framework, the pedagogical and intellectual work of Global Asian Studies encourages an examination of racial formations, and an understanding of Asia and Asian diasporas as complex nexuses of knowledge and power, shaped and reshaped over time and space.

An education in Global Asian Studies can effectively prepare students for a variety of careers in the arts, business, education, government, health sciences, international affairs, public policy, media relations, politics, social services, as well as graduate research in the humanities, interdisciplinary programs, and sciences in our present-day, connected world.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Asian American Histories

Global Hip-hop and Asian Diasporas

Middle East and Muslim Feminisms

Culture and Colonialism in South Asia

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-11 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-02 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Chicago, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

Complete and submit the Common Application Online along with the UIC section. Printed applications will not be accepted.

Submit the $60 nonrefundable application fee or, if qualified, select an application waiver.

Current high school students must submit an official high school transcript using the Recommender process within the Common Application School Form.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

27526 USD / year

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Out-of-State

27526 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

11424 USD / year

≈ 11424 USD / year

Living costs

Chicago

United States

1297 - 2491 USD / month

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Programme Structure

Key information

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Credits

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Campus Location

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Tuition Fees

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Living costs

Chicago

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