Japanese Studies Program

Course Offerings

The Japanese Studies Program offers undergraduate degrees through selected departments such as Anthropology, Economics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Political Science, Sociology, Visual Arts, and Theatre and Dance. Qualified undergraduates may also enroll in courses offered by the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies with consent of instructors.

For a complete listing of all Japanese Studies courses, click here.


2013-2014 Course Offerings

Fall 2013

  • JAPN 10A First Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 20A Second Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 130A Third Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 135A Japanese for Professional Purposes I (content pending)
  • JAPN 140A Fourth Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 150A Fifth Year Japanese I
  • HILD 10 East Asia: The Great Tradition (Lower division History requirement)
  • HIEA 111 Japan: Twelfth Through the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries
  • IRGN 411 Business and Management in Japan (graduate level course but open to all - some basic knowledge of managerial and business economics is recommended and you will need to schedule an appointment and obtain professor's permission to enroll). If interested, please e-mail Professor Ulrike Schaede.

Summer 2013

  • POLI 133D Political Institutions of East Asian Countries (offered during BOTH summer sessions)

2012-2013 Course Offerings

Spring 2013

  • JAPN 10C First Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 20C Second Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 100C Bilingual Japanese III
  • JAPN 130C Third Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 140C Fourth Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 150C Fifth Year Japanese III
  • HIEA 115 Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Japan
  • POLI 133D Political Institutions of East Asian Countries
  • VIS 127N Twentieth-Century Art in China and Japan
  • SOCI 120T Special Topics in Communication and Culture (must petition)
  • INTL 190 Business and Society in a Changing Japan (graduate course, must petition - for juniors and seniors only)

Winter 2013

  • JAPN 10B First Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 20B Second Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 100B Bilingual Japanese II
  • JAPN 130B Third Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 140B Fourth Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 150B Fifth Year Japanese II
  • HILD 11 East Asia and the West
  • LTCS  110 Arts of Japan Popular Culture
  • JAPN 190 Senior Seminar

Fall 2012

  • JAPN 10A First Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 20A Second Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 100A Bilingual Japanese I
  • JAPN 130A Third Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 140A Fourth Year Japanese I
  • JAPN 150A Fifth Year Japanese I
  • HILD 10 East Asia: The Great Traditions
  • VIS 127P Arts of Japan

Graduate Courses

  • IRGN 411 Japanese Business Management
  • IRGN 471 Japanese Economy

2011-2012 Course Offerings

Summer 2012

  • POLI 133A Japanese Politics: A Developmental Perspective

Spring 2012

  • JAPN 10C First-Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 20C Second-Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 100C Japanese for Bilingual Speakers III
  • JAPN 130C Third-Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 140C Fourth-Year Japanese III
  • JAPN 150C Advanced Japanese III
  • JAPN 196B Directed Honors Thesis
  • HILD 12 Twentieth Century East Asia
  • HIEA 113 The Fifteen Year War in Asia and the Pacific
  • HIEA 115 Social and Cultural Hitory of Twentieth Century Japan
  • CGS 104 Queer in East Asia: History, Culture and Community* (by petition)
  • POLI 113C Chinese and Japanese Political Thought
  • POLI 133D Political Institutions of East Asian Countries
  • SOCI 120T Special Topics in Culture, Language and Social Interaction: Japanese Culture Inside Out
  • TDHT 103 Asian American Theatre (by petition)
  • VIS 127N Twentieth Century Art in China and Japan

Graduate Courses

  • IRGN 471 Japanese Economy

Winter 2012

  • JAPN 10B First-Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 20B Second-Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 100B Japanese for Bilingual Speakers II
  • JAPN 130B Third-Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 140B Fourth-Year Japanese II
  • JAPN 150B Advanced Japanese II
  • HILD 11 East Asia and the West
  • ECON 163 Japanese Economy
  • JAPN 190 Senior Seminar
  • JAPN 196A Directed Honors Thesis
  • POLI 113B Chinese and Japanese Political Thought
  • TDGE 126 Storytelling and Design in Animation

Graduate Courses

  • IRGN 416 Japanese Politics

Fall 2011

  • JAPN 10A First-Year Japanese
  • JAPN 20A Second-Year Japanese
  • JAPN 100A Japanese for Bilingual Speakers
  • JAPN 130A Third-Year Japanese
  • JAPN 140A Fourth-Year Japanese
  • JAPN 150A Advanced Japanese
  • HILD 10 East Asia: The Great Tradition
  • HIEA 112 Japan: MId-19th C.- US Occupation -- CANCELLED
  • HIEA 150 Modern Korea, 1800-1945: The Peninsula in an Age of Empire
  • JAPN 199 Independent Study
  • POLI 133A Japanese Politics: A Developmental Perspective

Graduate Courses

  • IRGN 411

Past Academic Year