AACS-MIN - Asian American Community Studies

The minor in Asian-American Community Studies offers a comprehensive understanding of the histories, cultures, and social issues of the local and national Asian-American communities and the ability to contextualize this knowledge within the urban cultural diversity of Queens. In addition to collaboration among faculty from various academic departments, the minor has been built upon the long-standing relationship between the Asian/American Center and the Urban Studies Department and is based on close faculty ties and their shared views on curricular and pedagogical issues.

The program focuses on engaging students in a learning process in which they can make connections between their lives and local/global communities, their individual cultures and multicultural populations around them, and between critical inquiry about issues and action for social change. It supports a wide range of majors across campus and further enriches the expertise gained in a major by interdisciplinary exchanges with other academic departments and divisions.