Resources

With its strategic location and multicultural heritage, the University of Hawaiʻi is uniquely international in outlook and committed to enhancing global awareness and intercultural understanding.

Intellectual Pursuit

The School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi’s flagship campus in Mānoa is one of the largest resource facilities for Asian and Pacific studies in the world. Its centers promote interdepartmental cooperation across a broad range of disciplines and create a stimulating environment for faculty and students.

Area Studies Centers

Additional Programs

The Student Experience

Students gain a deeper understanding of our global society by living and learning abroad.
More than 2,300 students from countries near and far pursue their studies at one of the University of Hawaiʻi’s 10 campuses while study abroad and international exchange programs expand the horizons of U.S. students.

International Student Admissions

Study Abroad Programs

Academic degrees

An international focus permeates many UH fields of study from agriculture to theatre. Degree programs include the following:

Culture

Asian Studies—BA and MA, Mānoa
Basic Hawaiian Culture—undergradaute certificate, Hilo
Chinese Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa
Hawaiian Life Styles—AAS, Hawaiʻi
Hawaiian Studies—BA, Hilo; BA, MA Mānoa
International Cultural Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa
Japanese Studies—BA, Hilo; graduate certificate, Mānoa
Korean Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa
Pacific Islands Studies—BA, MA, graduate certificate, Mānoa; undergraduate certificate, Hilo
Philippine Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa
Russian Area Studies—undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
South Asian Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa
Southeast Asian Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa

Language

Chinese—BA, undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Classics—BA and undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
East Asian Languages and Literature—BA, MA and PhD in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, Mānoa
French—BA or undergraduate certificate or MA, Mānoa
German—BA or undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Hawaiian—undergraduate certificate, Hilo; BA, MA, Mānoa
Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization—PhD, Hilo
Hawaiian Language and Literature—MA, Hilo
Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization—graduate certificate, Hilo
Indo-Pacific Languages—undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Interpreting—AS—certificate of completion, Kapiʻolani
Japanese—BA, undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Korean—BA, undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Philippine Language and Literature—BA, Mānoa
Pidgen and Creole Studies—undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Russian—BA and undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Second Language Studies—graduate certificate, MA, PhD, Mānoa
Spanish—BA and undergraduate certificate, MA, Mānoa

Other

China-U.S. Relations—MA, Hilo
Ethnobotany—BS, Mānoa
Ethnic Studies, BA, undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Global Environmental Science—BS, Mānoa
Global Health and Population Studies—graduate certificate, Mānoa
Indigenous Language and Culture Education—MA, Hilo
International Business—BBA, Mānoa
International Management—PhD, Mānoa
International Studies—undergraduate certificate, Hilo
Islamic Studies—undergraduate certificate, Mānoa
Kahuawaiola Indigenous Teacher Education—graduate certificate, Hilo
Peace Studies—undergraduate certificate, Mānoa

Scholarly Publishing

University of Hawaiʻi Press

The University of Hawaiʻi Press is one of the most respected publishers of Asian and Pacific studies titles in the world. Its East-West Export Books sells books throughout Asia and the Pacific for UH Press and 55 North American university presses and scholarly publishers.

In addition, UH faculty publish extensively on a wide range of international-related topics.

Journals Published by UH Press

Recently Published by UH Authors

2011

Cover of Drinking Water Treatment book

Drinking Water Treatment: Focusing on Appropriate Technology and Sustainability (Springer) co-edited by Chittaranjan Ray, professor of civil and environmental engineering and interim director of the UH Water Resources Research Center provides a comparative analysis of solar pasteurization, solar distillation and natural riverbank filtration and examines the potential of membrane desalination—technologies that might be app;ropriate for treating drinking water in developing regions of the world. Read more in Mālamalama.

Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airlines (Duke University Press 2011) by Christine Yano, UH Mānoa professor of anthropology, is the story of an unusual personnel program implemented by an American corporation intent on expanding and dominating the nascent market for international air travel. The program reflected the Jet Age dreams of global mobility that excited postwar Americans, as well as the inequalities of gender, class, race and ethnicity that constrained many of them.

2010

The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora (Temple University Press) by Theodore Gonzalves, UH Mānoa associate professor of American studies, traces a genealogy of performance repertoire for Pilipino Cultural Nights from the 1930s to the present. These campus events celebrating national identity through music, dance and theatrical narratives reemphasize what it means to be Filipino American. Gonzalves discusses how the rebellious spirit that enlivened the original seditious performances has been stifled.

Globalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), by Nevzat Soguk, UH Mānoa professor of political science, highlights the often-overlooked non-Arab forms of Islam in Turkey and in Indonesia, which hold the world’s largest population of Muslims. He examines the multiple historical political and religious legacies in Turkey and Indonesia in light of the rapid globalization they are experiencing.