Chinese Studies
Overview
Major Requirements
COURSEWORK
Language Component:
Five courses total.
Students must select four additional language courses (301 and above):
| CHIN 301 | Expository Essays and Short Narratives I | 4 units |
| CHIN 310 | Expository Essays and Short Narratives II | 4 units |
| CHIN 330 | Topics in Fiction and Film | 4 units |
| CHIN 350 | Classical Chinese Texts | 4 units |
| CHIN 460 | Translating Chinese I | 4 units |
One literature in translation course:
| CHIN 272 | The Rise of the Martial Arts Novel | 4 units |
| CHIN 273 | Contemporary Chinese Writers in Exile | 4 units |
| CHIN 274 | Ghost and Love Stories | 4 units |
One methods or theory course:
| CHIN 272 | The Rise of the Martial Arts Novel | 4 units |
| CHIN 273 | Contemporary Chinese Writers in Exile | 4 units |
| CHIN 274 | Ghost and Love Stories | 4 units |
| CHIN 460 | Translating Chinese I | 4 units |
| ENGL 290 | Introduction to Literary Methods | 4 units |
| ENGL 370 | Literary Criticism | 4 units |
| LING 301 | Introduction to Linguistics | 4 units |
Three additional China-related courses:
| AMST 270 | Asian American Literature | 4 units |
| AMST 272/EASN 272 | Asian Immigrants in American Society | 4 units |
| AMST 280/DWA 246 | The United States and East Asia | 4 units |
| ARTH 160 | Introduction to East Asian Art | 4 units |
| DWA 237 | Cuba, Vietnam, China: Communism in a Post-Communist World | 4 units |
| DWA 245/HIST 245 | China and the World | 4 units |
| HIST 141 | East Asian Survey | 4 units |
| HIST 242 | Imperial China | 4 units |
| HIST 243 | Modern China: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution | 4 units |
| POLS 226 | Contemporary Chinese Politics | 4 units |
| POLS 227 | East Asian Politics: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan | 4 units |
| RELS 160 | How to Live and Die Well in Buddhist Traditions | 4 units |
| RELS 260 | Buddhist Thought From India to Japan | 4 units |
| RELS 266 | Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism | 4 units |
| RELS 276 | Empire and Religion in Asia and the Pacific | 4 units |
| RELS 365 | Buddhist Ethics | 4 units |
| SOC 340 | China's Environmental Challenges: A Sociological Perspective | 4 units |
Second-Stage Writing Requirement
Students will satisfy the second-stage 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.
College 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 advisers, 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.
Minor Requirements
Five courses (20 units) numbered Chinese 202 and above. Linguistics 301 may fulfill one of these courses. Three of the five courses must be completed as Occidental courses (one of the three MUST be taken at the Eagle Rock campus. The other two may be taken at an Occidental-in-China campus).
Transfer Credit Policies
The Chinese Studies policy on transfer credit conforms to College policy (with the additional restrictions noted for the minor above). Students who earn a score of 4 on the AP Chinese Language examination will earn four units of credit and be placed into
CHIN 201 while those who earn a score of 5 will earn four units of credit and be placed in to
CHIN 202. The department does not place students based on IB or A-level examinations. Students should reference the
Transfer Credit section for more details.
Courses
Chinese Courses
Faculty
Regular Faculty
Damian Stocking, chair
Associate Professor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
On Special Appointment
Swee Fong Lee
Non-Tenure Track Instructor
B.A., Tokyo Gakugei University; M.A., Hitotsubashi University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach
Andrew Miller
Non-Tenure Track Instructor
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles