GW undergraduates can double-major across schools. Students in the Elliott School of International Affairs or the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. may now major in Japanese or Chinese without fulfilling the graduation requirements of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Why minor when you can major?
Contact advisors at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures for further details.
Below are the requirements for the Japanese Major. Please check the 2002-03 Bulletin for a list of classes. Remember that you must fulfill the requirements as stated in the GW Undergraduate Bulletin of the academic year you declared your major.
The following requirements must be fulfilled:
- For students of the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences: The general requirements stated under the Columbian School. OR For GW students in schools other than the Columbian School: The general requirements as stated under the student's school, permission from the student's advisor, and petition to double major through the dean's office of the Columbian School.
- Prerequisite courses: Japn 1-2 Basic Japanese. Japn 3-4 Basic Japanese.
- Required for the major: Japn 105-106 Intermediate Japanese. Japn 109 Bungo, Introduction to Literary Japanese Japn 111-12 Japanese Literature in Translation.
- 15 hours selected from following electives: Japn 107-8 Readings in Modern Japanese. Japn 110 Readings in Classical Japanese. Japn 162 Japanese Culture Through Film. Japn 185-86 Directed Readings; availability limited. Japn 198-99 Proseminar: Readings for the Japanese Major.
- 9 hours in related courses outside department: (e.g., Art 187; Chin 163-4; Econ 170; Hist 127, 189, 195, 196; Kor 111-12; PSc 175; Rel 160).
