2021-2022 Catalog

Major Requirements

COURSEWORK

Language Component

Students must complete five courses total.

CHIN 202Intermediate Chinese II

5 units

 

And four from:

CHIN 301Expository Essays and Short Narratives I

4 units

CHIN 310Expository Essays and Short Narratives II

4 units

CHIN 330Topics in Fiction and Film

4 units

CHIN 350Classical Chinese Texts

4 units

CHIN 460Translating Chinese I

4 units

Literature in Translation

Students must complete one course from the list below:

CHIN 272The Rise of the Martial Arts Novel

4 units

CHIN 273Contemporary Chinese Writers in Exile

4 units

CHIN 274Ghost and Love Stories

4 units

CSLC 150The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature

4 units

CSLC 252To Dwell or to Wander: Reading Confucius and Zhuangzi

4 units

Methods/Theory

Students must complete one course from the list below:

CHIN 272The Rise of the Martial Arts Novel

4 units

CHIN 273Contemporary Chinese Writers in Exile

4 units

CHIN 274Ghost and Love Stories

4 units

CHIN 460Translating Chinese I

4 units

ENGL 290Introduction to Literary Methods

4 units

ENGL 370Literary Criticism

4 units

LING 301Introduction to Linguistics

4 units

Three Additional Electives:

AMST 270Asian American Literature

4 units

AMST 272/EASN 272Asian Immigrants in American Society

4 units

AMST 280/DWA 246The United States and East Asia

4 units

ARTH 160Introduction to East Asian Art

4 units

DWA 237Cuba, Vietnam, China: Communism in a Post-Communist World

4 units

DWA 245China and the World

4 units

HIST 141East Asian Survey

4 units

HIST 242Imperial China

4 units

HIST 243Modern China: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution

4 units

POLS 226Contemporary Chinese Politics

4 units

POLS 227East Asian Politics: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

4 units

RELS 266Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism

4 units

RELS 276Empire and Religion in Asia and the Pacific

4 units