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Japanese Studies Requirements

COURSEWORK

Major Coordinator: Professor Ezaki

Language Component:

Five courses total

JAPN 202Intermediate Japanese II

5

Students must select four additional language courses (301 and above):

JAPN 301Advanced Japanese I

4
JAPN 302Advanced Japanese II

4
JAPN 340Language in News Media and Advertising

4
JAPN 350Tales of the Supernatural

4
JAPN 460Translating Texts

4

One literature in translation course:

JAPN 271Fiction in Japanese Literature and Film

4
JAPN 273Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Tokugawa Japan

4

One methods or theory course:

JAPN 271Fiction in Japanese Literature and Film

4
JAPN 273Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Tokugawa Japan

4
JAPN 460Translating Texts

4
ENGL 290Introduction to Literary Methods

4
ENGL 370Literary Criticism

4
LING 301Introduction to Linguistics

4

Three additional Japan-related courses:

AMST 270Asian American Literature

4
AMST 272Asian Immigrants in American Society

4
AMST 280The United States and East Asia

4
ARTH 160Introduction to Asian Art

4
ARTH 261Buddhist Art in South and East Asia

4
ARTH 266The Arts of Japan

4
ARTH 368Japanese Painting

4
HIST 141East Asian Survey Since 1600

4
HIST 247Premodern Japan

4
POLS 227East Asian Politics: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

4
RELS 160Introduction to Asian Religions

4
RELS 260Buddhist Thought From India to Japan

4
RELS 365Buddhist Ethics

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 (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.