Global Asian Studies - DePaul University

10/22/2026

🌏✨ **Explore GLOBAL ASIA this Winter Quarter!** ✨📚

Looking for a course that explores Asia from different perspectives?

AAS 205: Global Asia introduces the artistic, cultural, economic, philosophical, political, and religious transformations of Asian societies across time and space. Through visual materials, multimedia, and interactive learning, you’ll explore the ideas and experiences that have shaped Asia across different periods and regions.

⭐ **Core requirement for the Global Asian Studies Minor!**

📅 MW 2:40–4:10 PM
💻 Online: Sync
🎓 Domain: SCBI
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Kathryn Ibata-Arens

Interested in the Global Asian Studies Minor or just want to learn more about Asia from a global perspective? Add AAS 205 to your Winter Quarter schedule! 🌏💙

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10/20/2026

🧠✨ Interested in Asian American Psychology? ✨🌏
Join us this Winter Quarter 2027 for AAS 204: Asian American Psychology! 📚💭

Explore the psychological experiences of Asians and Asian Americans in the United States through topics including identity, immigration, acculturation, stereotypes, racism, mental health, education, and more.

📚 AAS 204 – Asian American Psychology
📅 MW 11:20 AM–12:50 PM
📍 In Person – LPC
🎓 Domain: SCBI
🔗 Cross-listed with PSY 394
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Linda Toch

❄️ Add AAS 204 to your Winter Quarter schedule and explore Asian American experiences through a psychological perspective!

10/20/2026

❄️ Winter 2027 is coming! ❄️

Looking for classes for next quarter?
Check out the DePaul Global Asian Studies Program’s Winter 2027 Course Offerings!

From Asian American Psychology, Chinese Mythology, and Chinese Calligraphy to K-Pop , Japanese Film, Buddhist Art, Asian American Media, and more! There’s something for everyone!

📌 Winter Quarter 2027
🗓️ Start planning your schedule now!
🔎 Check Campus Connect for the latest course information and availability.
💙 We hope to see you in a GLAS course this winter! ❄️🌏✨
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10/15/2026

🎬 MOVIE NIGHT! 🍿
Join Global Asian Studies for a screening of Princess Mononoke! 🌿🐺✨

📅 Oct 20 (Tue)
⏰ 4:00–6:30 PM
📍 Student Center, Room 314A
🍪 Light refreshments available!

Come watch, relax, and enjoy the movie with us! 🎥💛

10/06/2026

🎬✨ GLAS MOVIE NIGHT IS BACK! ✨🎬
Join us for Seven Years in Tibet 🏔️🎞️
Come watch the film, hang out, and enjoy some light refreshments with us! 🍪🥤✨

📅 Friday, Oct. 16
⏰ 4:00–6:00 PM
📍 Student Center, Room 325
🍪 Light refreshments provided!
Bring your friends and enjoy a movie night with GLAS! 🎥🍿🏔️✨

09/12/2026

🚨 Reminder: Next Tuesday is the last day to add classes!
🌈 Check out AAS 261: LGBTQ Japan: Culture and Politics 🇯🇵✨

This Autumn Quarter course explores the lives, struggles, resistance, politics, and culture of sexual minorities in modern Japanese history through the present. Students will engage with topics including le***an feminism, HIV activism, same-sex marriage, pride parades, transgender rights, postcolonial q***r identity, and Japanese LGBTQ pop culture such as manga, anime, video games, and cosplay 🎮📚🎬

📌 Course Details
🍂 Autumn Quarter 2026
🕓 TuTh 4:20–5:50 PM
💻 Online: Sync
📚 Domain: SCBI
🔁 Cross-listed with JPN 244E
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Miho Matsugu

No knowledge of Japanese is required! 🙌
Make sure to enroll before the deadline 🗓️✨

07/08/2026

🇯🇵 Interested in Japan? Love reading, writing, or storytelling?

AAS 240: Modern Japanese Literature introduces major writers and works that shaped modern Japan while exploring themes of gender, empire, resistance, and cultural change.

✨ No formal essays
✍️ Creative writing assignments + a fan fiction project
📖 Cross-listed with JPN 240E

Autumn Quarter 2026
🕝 Tu/Th | 2:40–4:10 PM
📍 In Person (LPC)
👩‍🏫 Prof. Heather Bowen-Struyk
🎓 AL Domain

Come explore modern Japan through literature—and leave with a deeper understanding of its culture, history, and stories.

06/19/2026

Faculty Messages & Course Highlights 📚✨

Curious what our GLAS faculty have to say?

https://youtu.be/cDwtrWnPGPA

Hear from our professors as they share their insights, experiences, and highlights from Global Asian Studies courses. Learn more about the classes, opportunities, and perspectives that make GLAS a unique academic community.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

05/27/2026

Join AAS 301: Economic Inequality and Political Trauma and explore how trauma is shaped not only by war and violence, but also by capitalism, inequality, and political power.

🕒 MW 11:20–12:50
📍 LPC In Person
🔁 Cross-listed with GEO 301
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Maureen Sioh

From political economy to activism, psychoanalysis to contemporary global issues, this course invites students to critically rethink the relationship between trauma, power, and resistance.

05/27/2026

🎒🌏 AAS 290: Topics in Asian American Studies 🌏🎒

Explore diverse topics across Asian and Asian American cultures, religions, histories, and societies through rotating special topics courses each quarter. 📚✨

Through interdisciplinary perspectives, students will engage with questions of identity, migration, spirituality, culture, and global connection across Asia and the Asian diaspora.

📚 AAS 290 — Topics in Asian American Studies
✨ Multiple sections available
💻 Hybrid, Async, and Sync online options