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Asian American Studies Department, the largest of four departments in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, was established in Fall 1969 as a result of the 1968 Third World Student Strike. The Department currently consists of the following Asian American ethnic units: Chinese American, Filipino American, Japanese American, Korean American, Vietnamese American, and Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage. It is a full service academic unit that offers a comprehensive program of study of the Asian American experience with a commitment to serving the University, its students, and the Asian American communities.
In 1994, the Asian Pacific American Education Advisory Committee of the Chancellor's Office recognized and acknowledged the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University as an "exemplary program."
Asian American Studies offers fifty sections of classes taught by a faculty of thirty-plus to approximately two thousand students each semester. Students may take Asian American Studies courses for a baccalaureate major or minor, and to partially fulfill Liberal Studies major, General Education, and University statutory requirements. The Department graduated its first class of baccalaureate degree majors in AY1997-98. The master's degree program began its first semester in the spring of 2000 and graduated its first class in 2002.