Undergraduate Degree

Department Major Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts

For the lower division, two years of Chinese, Japanese or Korean language are required. For the upper division, 32 units, including the third year of language, are required. The 32 upper division courses must include one civilization course and one literature course in either Chinese, Japanese or Korean. One lower division course may be counted toward the 32 upper division unit requirement. One East Asian course from another department may be included in the 32 unit requirement, if approved by an advisor.

Department Minor Requirements

For the lower division, two years of language in one of three languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) are required. For the upper division, four courses, including one civilization course and one literature course in either Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Year-in-Japan Program

The following courses from the Year-in-Japan Program at Waseda University may be applied toward the major requirement in the department as upper division credit: (a) Japanese History before 1868; (b) Religions of the Far East; (c) Contemporary Japanese Literature; (d) English and Japanese in Contrast: Language and Culture; (f) Modern Japan in Asia; (g) Japanese Literature in Translation of the Meiji and Taisho Periods; (h) Western World and Japan in the Modern Century; (i) Social Structure in Modern Japan; (j) Contemporary Japanese Family; (k) Japanese Kinship Systems and Society; (l) Performing Arts in Japan: Theatre. Those who receive major credit from this program must still take at least eight units of non-language courses within EALC at the upper division level.

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