Baccalaureate Degrees (BA)

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The Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures (IPLL) at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa is the first of its kind in the United States, to offer a Bachelor’s degree in Philippine Language and Literature, with emphasis on Filipino/Tagalog and Ilokano. It also offers four levels of Filipino/Tagalog and Ilokano language study. More details on the Filipino program are found Here, while those on the Ilokano program are available in this Site.

BA degrees with a Philippine interdisciplinary concentration are also offered through the Asian Studies and Liberal Studies Programs. About 151 courses focusing on the Philippines/Filipinos are offered by various departments/programs at the UHM Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Department of Ethnic Studies, and History Department, among others.

The Asian Studies Program focuses on a Philippine concentration combining history, language, social sciences, and other aspects of culture and society. The Liberal Studies Program option allows students to design their own program of study leading to a “major equivalent” consisting of 36 semester credit hours of Philippine-related courses in two or more departments.

CPS coordinates with IPLL and the Department of Asian Studies through training and actual teaching of courses that have Philippine Studies content. Faculty and staff from the Center are assigned courses to teach such courses, such as ASAN 407 (Philippines and Hawaii), and Filipino/Ilokano courses offer at IPLL. Some faculty from the Filipino and Ilokano programs were also recruited to train in the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad conducted in Cebu in 2022 to learn basic Cebuano language at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City. This will hopefully prepare IPLL for future offering of a Cebuano course.