Chinese Studies

The Chinese Studies major enables students to delve into the study of Chinese culture through the lens of language, literature, and other disciplinary offerings on campus.

Major

Total of nine courses minimum. Students may apply four units of Directed Research as one course towards fulfillment of either the language component or an East Asian elective, but not both.

Language Component

Four Chinese language courses, numbered 201 or above, including 4 units of Chinese Directed Research.

CHIN 201	Intermediate Chinese I	5 units
CHIN 202	Intermediate Chinese II	5 units
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 338	Literature of China's Tang and Song Dynasty	5 units
CHIN 350	Classical Chinese Texts	4 units
CHIN 460	Translating Chinese I	4 units

Literature in Translation and Theory

Students must complete two courses from the list below:

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
CHIN 338	Literature of China's Tang and Song Dynasty	5 units
CHIN 460	Translating Chinese I	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
LING 301	Introduction to Linguistics	4 units

Only ASN 295 courses that are Chinese literature in translation courses count for this requirement.

East Asian Electives

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 or above CHIN courses. Four units of Directed Research from CHIN 293, CHIN 393, ASN 193, ASN 293, or ASN 393 can count as an elective course.

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 165/CSLC 165	From Jomon to Pokemon: Japan’s Cultural History	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 260/CSLC 260	Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Early Modern Japan	4 units
ASN 272/AMST 272	Asian Immigrants in American Society	4 units
ASN 331/CSLC 331	Modern Korean Fiction	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
PHIL 214	The Hundred Schools: Rebellion and Responsibility in Early China	4 units
PHIL 324	Daoism: The Unhewn Block	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 may also apply MAC 246 as an elective if they have enrolled in the "New Waves of Asian Cinema" section of the course.

Honors in the Major

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 directed research course in the spring to expand the fall semester senior comprehensive paper into a distinguished 40-page paper.

Minor

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). A combined 4-units of CHIN Directed Research credits can count for a single course for one course maximum.