COURSEWORK
Major Coordinator: Professor Chen
Language Component:
Five courses total
Students must select four additional language courses (301 and above):
| CHIN 301 | Expository Essays and Short Narratives I | 4 |
| CHIN 310 | Expository Essays and Short Narratives II | 4 |
| CHIN 330 | Topics in Fiction and Film | 4 |
| CHIN 350 | Classical Chinese Texts | 4 |
| CHIN 460 | Translating Chinese I | 4 |
One literature in translation course:
| CHIN 272 | The Rise of the Martial Arts Novel | 4 |
| CHIN 273 | Contemporary Chinese Writers in Exile | 4 |
| CHIN 274 | Ghost and Love Stories | 4 |
One methods or theory course:
Three additional China-related courses:
| AMST 270 | Asian American Literature | 4 |
| AMST 272 | Asian Immigrants in American Society | 4 |
| AMST 280 | The United States and East Asia | 4 |
| ARTH 160 | Introduction to Asian Art | 4 |
| ARTH 261 | Buddhist Art in South and East Asia | 4 |
| DWA 237 | Cuba, Vietnam, China: Communism in a Post-Communist World | 4 |
| DWA 245 | China and the World | 4 |
| HIST 141 | East Asian Survey Since 1600 | 4 |
| HIST 242 | Imperial China | 4 |
| HIST 243 | Modern China: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution | 4 |
| POLS 226 | Contemporary Chinese Politics | 4 |
| POLS 227 | East Asian Politics: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan | 4 |
| RELS 160 | Introduction to Asian Religions | 4 |
| RELS 260 | Buddhist Thought From India to Japan | 4 |
| RELS 365 | Buddhist Ethics | 4 |
| SOC 340 | China's Environmental Challenges: A Sociological Perspective | 4 |
WRITING REQUIREMENT
Students will satisfy the final component of Occidental's college-wide writing requirement by submitting a paper in English from a 300 level or seminar course (in any subject) in the fall semester of the senior year, which will be evaluated by the appropriate major coordinator.
COMPREHENSIVE REQUIREMENT
This requirement is fulfilled through either a seminar course (
CHIN 272,
CHIN 273,
CHIN 274, or
CHIN 460) or a 2-unit Independent Study in the fall semester of the senior year, in which the student will produce: either (1) a 20-page paper written in English on Chinese language or literature, including source texts written in Chinese; or (2) an annotated translation, with commentary, of a Chinese language text into English. In the spring semester, the student will make any required revisions and prepare an oral presentation to be given in Chinese.
HONORS
Students with an overall GPA of 3.25 and a major GPA of 3.50 may submit an honors research proposal at the end of the fall semester of the senior year. If the proposal is supported by two faculty advisors, the student will enroll in a 2 unit Independent Study in the spring to expand the fall semester senior comprehensive paper into a distinguished 40 page paper.