Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies major at Berkeley is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of historical and contemporary experiences of Asian-ancestry groups in local, national and global contexts. Although attention is focused on Asians in the U.S, the program situates the experiences, contributions, issues, and concerns of Asian American communities within their larger transnational and diasporic contexts.

Connections among Asian communities in the U.S. and around the world are explored in terms of the entangled histories and circuits of migration and the interconnected space through which people, capital, ideas, influences, and activism flow between Asia and the U.S. and among Asian diasporic communities. 

Honors Program

The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program will provide a program leading to the A.B. degree with honors. A student will be recommended for honors if the student has completed at least 30 units and two semesters with a grade-point average of at least 3.5 overall and for all work undertaken in the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program. Students must also have been approved specifically for honors by the Ethnic Studies Department Honors Committee. The honors student will be required to complete ASAMST H195A and ASAMST H195B, Senior Honors Seminar for Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Majors. In order to graduate with an A.B. degree with honors, a student must obtain at least 3.5 GPA for all course work undertaken at the university

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