The Majors

Chinese Language and Literature
Prerequisite
The successful completion of four semester courses in Mandarin Chinese: 126, 246, 326, 327 (24 credits) or the equivalent.

Departmental Requirements
31 credits for the major, distributed as follows:

A. Required courses (16 credits)
375 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
426 Advanced Modern Chinese I
427 Advanced Modern Chinese II
450 Elementary Classical Chinese
451 Intermediate Classical Chinese

B. 9 credits from among the following:
397J Chinese Popular Culture 
432  Media Chinese
433  Business Chinese
497E Chinese for International Affairs
498Y Practicum (1-3 credits)
526 Readings in Modern Chinese Literature I
527 Readings in Modern Chinese Literature II
528 Chinese Language in Contexts
536 Premodern Vernacular Literature
537 Contemporary Chinese Literature
552 Readings in Chinese Historical Texts
555 Classical Chinese Poetry
556 Classical Chinese Prose
570 Introduction to Research in Chinese Source Materials
575 Syntactic Structures of Chinese
576 History of the Chinese Language
577 Chinese Dialectology
580 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language I
581 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language II
597G Dynastic Histories
597M Ming-Qing Novel I
597P Traditional Chinese Drama & Performing Arts

C. 6 credits from among the following:
136 Introduction to Chinese Cinema
140 Chinese Script I
141 Chinese Script II
150 Peoples and Languages of China
153 Chinese Literature: Poetry
154 Chinese Literature: Tale, Short Story, Novel
197Q Late Imperial Chinese Literature & Culture
197S China in World Affairs
241 Contemporary Chinese Literature
242 Chinese Vernacular Literature
HISTORY 114 History of China I
HISTORY 115 History of China II

Joint Major in Chinese and Linguistics
(See Linguistics section)

Japanese Language and Literature
Prerequisite
The successful completion of four semester courses in Japanese: 126, 246, 326 and 327 (24 credits) or the equivalent.

Departmental Requirements: 33 credits total

A. Required Courses (6 credits)
497B Contemporary Japanese I
497D Contemporary Japanese II

B. 12 credits from among the following:
497A Readings in Modern Japanese I
497C Readings in Modern Japanese II
498Y Practicum
532 Media Japanese I
533 Media Japanese II
536 Advanced Modern Japanese I
537 Advanced Modern Japanese II
597B Translation and Japanese Literature
597C Problems and Methods in Translation
597E Advanced Japanese Translation

C. 9 credits from among the following:
235 Arts and Culture: The Performing Arts
291A Japanese Women Writers
297B Japanese Popular Culture
375  Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
391A Landscape and Travel in Japanese Literature
392M Japanese Buddhism and the Literary Arts
492B Japanese Avant-Garde Drama
492C Edo Pictorial Fiction
556 Introduction to Classical Japanese I
557 Readings in Classical Japanese II
560 Seminar in Japanese Literature
570 Introduction to Reference and Bibliography
580 Teaching Methodology I
581 Teaching Methodology II
591B Modern Japanese Philosophy
592M Japanese Buddhism and the Literary Arts
593A Heian Literary Culture
597A Manuscript Japanese
597R Tokugawa Culture
CHINESE 450 Elementary Classical Chinese

D. 6 credits from the following:
135 Japanese Arts and Culture
143 Japanese Literature: Classical and Medieval
144 Japanese Literature: Modern
197C Introduction to Japanese Religion
197D Ritual and Custom in Japanese Society
197E Japanese Cinema
197F Haiku Roots
197K Japanese Postwar Fiction
197L Manga and Anime
197N Asian Homosexualities
HISTORY 116 Survey of Japanese Civilization

Joint Major in Japanese and Linguistics
(See Linguistics section)

Restrictions
A minimum grade of C in courses used to satisfy the major requirement; no Pass/Fail option in such courses; only six credits from other institutions in the Five College consortium may be applied to the major; students who begin the major at an advanced level must take enough courses at that level to accumulate the required number of credits from the major; double majors need to complete the Junior Year Writing requirement in only one of their majors. No student who passes the program’s foreign language exemption exam may enroll in 110/120/126/127/246/247.