The Major

Advisors: Members of the Department

Prerequisites: The first year of Chinese (CHI 110 and 111) or Japanese (JPN 110 and 111) is a prerequisite for admission to the major. A language placement test is required prior to registration for students who have previously studied the language.

Requirements: Students are expected to concentrate in China or Japan and take a total of 11 courses (46 credits), distributed as follows:

1. Language:
   a. Second-year language courses (10 credits): JPN 220 and 221 or CHI 220 and 221 (2 courses).
   b. Third-year language courses (8 credits): JPN 301 and 302 or CHI 301 and 302 (2 courses). Students whose proficiency places them beyond the third year should substitute advanced language or literature courses for this requirement.
   
   
2. Literature:
   a. At least three EALL courses (12 credits) in the literature or culture of the student’s concentration, including a departmental seminar. Students concentrating on China are encouraged to take EAL 231 and 232, and they must take at least one of these two courses. Students focusing on Japan are encouraged to take EAL 241 and 242, and they must take at least one of these courses.
   b. At least one course (4 credits) focusing principally on the literature of another East Asian country.
   
   
3. Electives: Three additional courses (12 credits) may be chosen from other advanced language or literature courses in the department, or, at the recommendation of the adviser, from related courses in other departments.

Of the eleven required courses, no more than five normally shall be taken in other institutions, such as Five Colleges, Junior Year Abroad programs, or summer programs. Students should consult their advisers prior to taking such courses. S/U grading options are not allowed for courses counting toward the major. Native speakers of a language are encouraged to take another East Asian language.

Advanced Language Courses:

• CHI 310 Readings in Classical Chinese Prose and Poetry
• CHI 350 Advanced Readings in Chinese: Modern Literary Texts
• CHI 351 Advanced Readings in Chinese: Modern and Contemporary Texts
• JPN 350 Contemporary Texts
  JPN 351 Contemporary Texts II
• KOR 350 Advanced Studies in Korean Language and Society
• KOR 351 Advanced Studies in Korean Language and Society

Courses Taught in English:

• EAL 231 The Culture of the Lyric in Traditional China
• EAL 232 Modern Chinese Literature
• EAL 233 The Chinese Literary Tradition (Topic course)
• EAL 235 How Poems Mean in China and the West
• EAL 236 Modernity: East and West
• EAL 237 Chinese Poetery and the Other Arts
• EAL 238 Literature from Taiwan
• EAL 240 Japanese Language and Culture
• EAL 241 Court Ladies, Wandering Monks, and Urban Rakes: Literature and Culture in Premodern Japan
• EAL 242 Modern Japanese Literature
• EAL 243 Japanese Poetry in Cultural Context
• EAL 244 Constructions of Gender in Modern Japanese Women's Writing
• EAL 245 Writing the "Other" in Modern Japanese Literature
• EAL 260 Health and Illness: Literary Explorations
• EAL 261 Major Themes in Literature: East-West Perspectives (topic course)
• EAL 360 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures (topic course)

Honors
Honors' Director:Sabina Knight

430d Thesis (8 credits)
Full year course; Offered each year
431 Thesis ( 8 credits)
Offered each Fall

Honors' Requirements: same as for the departmental major plus the thesis, normally written in both semesters of the senior year (430d), with an oral examination on the thesis. In special cases, the thesis may be written in the first semester of the senior year (431).