COURSEWORK
Major Coordinator: Professor Ezaki
Language Component:
Five courses total
Students must select four additional language courses (301 and above):
One literature in translation course:
| JAPN 271 | Fiction in Japanese Literature and Film | 4 |
| JAPN 273 | Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Tokugawa Japan | 4 |
One methods or theory course:
| JAPN 271 | Fiction in Japanese Literature and Film | 4 |
| JAPN 273 | Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Tokugawa Japan | 4 |
| JAPN 460 | Translating Texts | 4 |
| ENGL 290 | Introduction to Literary Methods | 4 |
| ENGL 370 | Literary Criticism | 4 |
| LING 301 | Introduction to Linguistics | 4 |
Three additional Japan-related courses:
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 (JAPN 271 or JAPN 273) 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 Japanese language or literature, including source texts written in Japanese; or (2) an annotated translation, with commentary, of a Japanese language text into English. In the spring semester, the student will make any required revisions and prepare an oral presentation to be given in Japanese.
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.