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Requirements

Requirements for the Japanese Studies Major (36 semester hours)

Core course (4 semester hours)

Japanese Language: Sixteen semester hours from the following or from equivalent study abroad (16)

  • JAPN331 Third Year Japanese 1(4)

  • JAPN332 Third Year Japanese 2 (4)

  • JAPN430 Japanese Reading and Composition 1 (4)

  • JAPN431 Japanese Reading and Composition 2 (4)

  • JAPN432 Conversational Japanese 1 (4)

  • JAPN434 Conversational Japanese 2 (4)

  • JAPN490 Reading and Conference (2 or 4)

  • JAPN491 Reading and Conference (2 or 4)

Japanese Culture: Sixteen semester hours from the following or from study abroad courses. One of which must be at the 300- or 400-level (16)

  • JAPN199 Topics in Japanese Studies (1-4)

  • JAPN201W Modern Japanese Society and Culture (4)

  • JAPN299 Topics in Japanese Studies (1-4)

  • JAPN314W Japanese Literature in Translation (4)

  • JAPN340 The Japanese Cinema (4)

  • JAPN399 Topics in Japanese Studies (1-4)

  • JAPN429 Topics in Japanese Studies (1-4)

  • ARTH114 Introduction to Japanese Art History (4)

  • HIST131W Culture, Power, Society (topic dependent) (4)

  • HIST281 History of Modern Japan (4)

  • IDS334 Field Studies: Environmental Studies and Sustainability in Japan (4)

  • JAPN199 Topics in Japanese Studies (1-4)

  • JAPN201W Modern Japanese Society & Culture (4)

  • JAPN299 Topics in Japanese Studies (1-4)

  • RHET271 Telling the Internment Story (4)

Four of the 16 semester hours can be fulfilled by the following:

  • ANTH356 Language and Culture (4)

  • ASIA201 Gateway to East Asia (4)

  • ASIA210 Making and Playing of Traditional Musical Instruments (4)

  • ASIA199, ASIA299, ASIA399, ASIA429 Topics in Asian Studies (4)

  • CCM258 Gender & Mass Communication in Asia (4)

  • CCM288 Introducing Asia to the World (4)

  • CCM301 Asian Visual and Creative Culture (4)

  • CCM310 Asian Social Media in a Global Context: Critique and Design (4)

  • HIST118 East Asian Civilization Since 1800 (4)

  • HIST331 Asian Environmental History (4)

  • JAPN265 HSCS Japan Partnership Program (2)

  • JAPN380 Practicum in Japanese Language Facilitation (1-2)

  • JAPN394 Internship (1-4)

  • PHIL370W Philosophy of Language (4)

  • REL135 Religions of Asia (4)

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Japanese Studies