Total of nine courses minimum.
The remainder of the nine total required courses are chosen from the below list of East Asia-related elective courses and can include up to two 201 and above CHIN courses.
| AMST 270 | Asian American Literature | 4 units |
| AMST 272/ASN 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 |
| ARTH 360 | Women in Art in East Asia | 4 units |
| ASN 150/CSLC 150 | The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature | 4 units |
| ASN 252/CSLC 252 | To Dwell or to Wander: Reading Confucius and Zhuangzi | 4 units |
| ASN 253/CSLC 253 | The Golden Era: Literature of China's Tang and Song Dynasty | 4 units |
| ASN 272/AMST 272 | Asian Immigrants in American Society | 4 units |
| CSLC 150/ASN 150 | The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature | 4 units |
| CSLC 252/ASN 252 | To Dwell or to Wander: Reading Confucius and Zhuangzi | 4 units |
| CSLC 253/ASN 253 | The Golden Era: Literature of China's Tang and Song Dynasty | 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 |
| HIST 245/DWA 245 | China and the World | 4 units |
| HIST 344 | Contemporary China: Reform, Rise, and Crisis | 4 units |
| HIST 346 | The Transformation of Urban and Rural China | 4 units |
| HIST 348 | The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Global Sixties | 4 units |
| MUSC 103 | Music of Asia and the Pacific Islands | 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 215 | Shamans, Sages, and Spirits in East Asia | 4 units |
| RELS 256 | Borderland Buddhisms: Religion in Tibet and the Himalayas | 4 units |
| RELS 258 | Magic, Morality, and Modernity in China | 4 units |
| RELS 261 | Between Empire and Appropriation: Buddhism in the Modern World | 4 units |
| RELS 266 | Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism | 4 units |
| RELS 276 | Empire and Religion in Asia and the Pacific | 4 units |
| RELS 335 | Downloading Deities, Mediating Meditation, Streaming Spirits: Religion and Media in Asia | 4 units |
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 (CHIN 499) in the spring to expand the fall semester senior comprehensive paper into a distinguished 40-page paper.
Five courses (20 units). At least four Chinese language classes, 201 and above; can include one Chinese literature in translation course or LING 301. 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).