GLAS at University of Illinois Chicago

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GLAS coursework.

• GLAS 100Introduction to Global Asian Studiesopens 7 courses (6.5 directly)
• GLAS 120Introduction to Asian American Studiesopens 3 courses (2.3 directly)
• GLAS 123Introduction to Asian American Literatureopens 1 course (0.3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GLAS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 38 GLAS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 31 more GLAS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GLAS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at GLAS 201

  1. GLAS 100Introduction to Global Asian Studies
  2. GLAS 201Asian Markets, Corporations, and Social Justice

• 2 courses deep, ending at GLAS 207

  1. ANTH 101World Cultures: Introduction to Social Anthropology
  2. GLAS 207Asian Cities: Urban Cultures of the Global South

• 2 courses deep, ending at GLAS 209

  1. CHIN 104Intermediate Chinese II.
  2. GLAS 209Advanced Chinese Language and Culture

• 2 courses deep, ending at GLAS 228

  1. SOC 100Introduction to Sociology
  2. GLAS 228Sociology of Asia and Asian Americans

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GLAS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GLAS yet.

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Department events

GLAS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UIC campus feed.