The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine offers an undergraduate major, minor, the country’s first 4+1 B.A./M.A. program, and a graduate emphasis in the School of Humanities. Asian American Studies explores the intersections of race, gender, citizenship, ethnicity, and dis/ability within Asian American histories, experience, and cultural production. The Department offers more than twenty cross-disciplinary courses annually such as Asian American Community, Asian American History, Asian American Literature, Asian American Media and Music, Asian American Women, Ethnic Food & Identity, and Politics of Protest.
The campus’s location in Orange County and proximity to Los Angeles invites many opportunities for students to engage in and learn about the value of community organizing and political mobilization to Asian American Studies as a field and as a diverse set of communities. The Department also works closely with the UCI Library’s Southeast Asian Archive, which offers resources on the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian communities in California and throughout the United States.
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The 4+1 B.A./M.A. program, established in 2016, is a unique Master's graduate program in which all current UCI undergraduate students can build upon their undergraduate work to complete an MA in Asian American Studies in one additional year beyond the completion of the Bachelor's degree.
As the first hybrid B.A./M.A. program in the country, the program in Asian American Studies allows high performing students advanced training in the following areas:
Graduates of the M.A. in Asian American Studies will be better prepared to pursue any career requiring strong communication skills, critical thinking, and intercultural competence. Some examples include:
Visit the 4 + 1 Program website to learn more about application requirements.
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