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The Minor
Advisors: Members
of the Department
The course requirements
are designed so that a student will concentrate on one of the East Asian
languages but will have the option of being exposed to other courses in
the department.
Prerequisites:
The first year of Chinese (CHI 110 and 111), Japanese (JPN 110 and 111)
or Korean (KOR 110 and 111) is a prerequisite for admission.
Requirements:
The minor will consist of a total of six courses (24 credits) in the following
distribution, no more than three of which shall be taken in other institutions.
Students should consult the department prior to taking courses in other
institutions.
- Chinese II (CHI 220
and 221), Japanese II (JPN 220 and 221), or Korean II (KOR 220 and 221)
- Four courses, at least
two of which must be EAL courses, chosen from the list below:
- EAL 100 The Literary
Traditions of East Asian China, Japan and Korea
- 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 Urnan 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)
- EAL 400 Special Studies
- CHI 301 Chinese III
- CHI 302 Chinese III
(a continuation of 301
- CHI 310 Readings in
Classical Chinese Prose and Poetry)
- CHI 350 Advanced Readings
in Chinese: Modern Literary Texts
- JPN 301 Japanese III
- JPN 302 Japanese III
(a continuation of 301)
- JPN 350 Contemporary
Texts
- JPN 351 Contemporary
Texts II
- KOR 301 Korean III
- KOR 302 Korean III
(a continuation of 301)
- KOR 350 Advanced Studies
in Korean Language and Society
- KOR 351 Advanced Studies
in Korean Language and Society
In addition to the courses
offered at Smith, courses offered at the other four
colleges or offered junior year abroad may be taken for credit toward
the requirement, with the restriction that only three courses (counted
toward the minor) taken outside of Smith are allowed. Students planning
on spending their junior year abroad should consult the department and
get approval for courses that will be credited toward the East Asian Languages
& Literatures minor. They must also seek final approval for those
courses upon their return.
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