Prospective Undergraduate Concentrators
Please make an appointment via email to our Departmental Representative, Professor Steven Chung (Frist 236) (sychung@princeton.edu)
Please bring the following information:
- Internal transcript
- List of your EAS courses taken to date
- Your course enrollment worksheet with your proposed courses
Requirements for Majors
The Department of East Asian Studies provides undergraduate concentrators with a broad-ranging knowledge of the languages and cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. Concentrators are expected to achieve proficiency in one East Asian language through the third-year level, and take eight departmental courses. The departmentals must include the junior seminar, at least one course on pre-modern East Asia, any combination of two of the four courses HIS/EAS 207 - 208 and HUM/EAS/COM 233 - 234, and at least one course covering material outside of a student's primary area of language specialization. A single course may not be used to satisfy two requirements with the exception of HIS 207 and HUM 233, either of which may be used to satisfy the requirement of a course on pre-modern Asia.
A minimum of six of the eight departmentals must be EAS-prefixed courses. The other two may be approved cognate courses, language courses at or above the 300 level (after the three-year proficiency requirement is fulfilled) in the primary East Asian language, or any language courses in a second East Asian language.