The Major

Prerequisite

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

Departmental Requirements

33 credit total:

1. Required Courses (6 credits)
   • 436 Contemporary Japanese I
   • 437 Contemporary Japanese II
2. 12 credits from among the following:
   • 497A Readings in Modern Japanese I
   • 497C Readings in Modern Japanese II
   • 496T Practicum and Tutorial
   • 532 Media Japanese I
   • 536 Advanced Modern Japanese I
   • 537 Advanced Modern Japanese II
   • 597C Problems and Methods in Translation
   • 597F Business Japanese
3. 9 credits from among the following:
   • 235 Performing Arts of Japan
   • 297B Japanese Popular Culture
   • 375 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
   • 391S Japanese Women Writers
   • 397M Japanese Buddhism and the Literary Arts
   • 492C Edo Pictorial Fiction
   • 556 Introduction to Classical Japanese I
   • 557 Readings in Classical Japanese II
   • 580 Teaching Methodology I
   • 597A Manuscript Japanese
   • CHINESE 450 Elementary Classical Chinese
4. 6 credits from the following:
   • 135 Japanese Arts and Culture
   • 140 Religions in Japan
   • 142 Japanese Literature Before 1600
   • 143 Japanese Literature: Classical and Medieval
   • 144 Japanese Literature: Modern
   • 197C Introduction to Japanese Religion
   • 197K Japanese Postwar Fiction
   • 197L Manga and Anime
   • 197N Asian Homosexualities
   • ASIAN 135 Buddhism East and West
5. Integrative Experience - 3 credits from among the following:
   • 494RI Communicating in Japanese
   • 494SI Shinbun - Newspapers as Modern Culture
6. Junior Year Writing
   • 391G Junior Year Writing

Joint Major in Japanese and Linguistics

(See Linguistics section)

Restrictions

A cumulative GPA of 2.00 is required 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.