The major in Asian and Asian American studies offers three tracks: Asian American and diaspora studies, Asia comparative, and South Asia. Students majoring in one of these tracks will learn about the social, cultural and historical aspects of Asians in the U.S. and, more broadly, Asians in the Americas, comparative Asian studies encompassing two or more Asian countries, or the diverse cultures, peoples and regions of South Asia. The department encourages work that is interdisciplinary, comparative or global in methodology and theory, as well as work that is specialized locally or regionally. It also supports work that examines the study of Asia and Asian diasporas as complex nexuses of sociological, geographical and political regions, as well as economies, histories and ideas across national and oceanic boundaries. Students benefit from the cross-national work and research agendas of both Asianists and Asian Americanists in productive dialogue.