Mission
To provide students with a passport to success and global citizenship and to guide students towards creating a positive impact in our multinational, multicultural, and multilingual world. An interdisciplinary faculty that focuses on the humanistic traditions of China, India, Korea, Japan, and Russia, with links to other departments and units across the UI campus, fosters the deepening of students' intellectual and personal development while enhancing their cosmopolitan character. Through direct engagement with modern and classical languages, cultures, and literatures, ASLL creates the conditions for student success in their studies, careers, and lives beyond the UI.

Vision
To educate students to live, work, and succeed in a multicultural, technological, and diverse world, and to empower students to become agents of transformation in a world that requires greater international engagement and understanding. This vision must have built into its capacity of embracing the core human values of empathy, judiciousness, accommodation, transparency, cultural openness, professionalism, nondiscrimination, and the desire to build bridges. By acting from this foundation, we will be able to realize the CLAS goals of excellence and impact.