Japanese Studies Major

Japanese Program

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The Major in Japanese Studies provides a solid, well-rounded grounding in Japanese language, culture, literature, linguistics, art, history, religion, and business.  It requires 40 units of the following courses.

  

Prerequisite:

JAPN 101: First Semester Japanese, 4 units
JAPN 102: Second Semester Japanese, 4 units
JAPN 201: Third Semester Japanese, 4 units

20 units of the following required courses:

JAPN 202: Fourth Semester Japanese, 4 units
JAPN 301: Intermediate Japanese, 4 units
JAPN 302: Advanced Japanese, 4 units
JAPN 401: Edo Culture (Fourth Year Japanese), 4 units
JAPN 410: Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, 4 units20 units chosen from the following elective courses:

JAPN 190: Reading Osaka from San Francisco, 4 units
JAPN 310: Zen and the Art of Japanese Calligraphy, 4 units
JAPN 350: Japanese Culture, 4 units
JAPN 351: Contemporary Japanese Culture, 4 units
JAPN 355: Japanese Literature in Translation, 4 units
JAPN 357: Naturalism in Japanese Literature, 4 units
JAPN 360: Japanese Calligraphy and Ink Painting, 4 units

*Up to two courses among the following can also be counted:
JAPN/HIST 383: Modern Japanese since Perry, 4 units
JAPN/HIST 387: History of U.S.- Japan Relations, 4 units
JAPN/HIST 390: Traditional Japan to 1868, 4 units
JAPN/THRS 368: Japanese Religion and Society, 4 units
JAPN/THRS 370: Zen Buddhism, 4 units
JAPN/BUS 397: Japanese Study Tour, 4 units

(c) Noriko Nagata -- Picture 1: Himeji-jo castle, Hyogo, Japan