Requirements
Overview
Language: JPN 202 and four more courses at the 300 and 400 levels (a total of five courses). All course progressions must be approved by the program’s language coordinator. Electives: Four electives are required. A minimum of two must be from List A. The remainder may include another from List A, or one from List A and one from List B, or two from List B (a total of four courses). Students who are placed beyond 202 will take an equivalent number of courses from lists A and B. No courses for the major maybe taken S/U. Students must receive at least a C in each course taken for the minor.
Electives
List A
JPN 234 Japanese Linguistics
JPN 270WR Introduction to Japanese Culture
JPN 372WR Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature
JPN 378WR Postwar Japan through its Media
List B
JPN 232 Language Usage in Japanese Society
JPN 360 Japanese Modern Women Writers
JPN 361 Genji: Sensuality and Salvation
JPN 362 Samurai, Shoguns, and Women Warriors
JPN 363 Literary and Visual Culture in Japan
JPN 374 Japanese Literature: Reading and Writing the Classics
JPN 375 Topics in Japanese Studies
JPN 451 Great Writers of Modern Japan
PS 328 Politics of Japan and East Asia
FS 395 Japanese Film
HIST 371 Medieval and Early Modern Japan
HIST 372 History of Modern Japan
Language requirements may be fulfilled by demonstrating equivalent mastery of the language through oral and written examination administered by REALC.