Prospective Majors
Sophomore Open House
The Department of East Asian Studies will be holding their sophomore open house on September 15, 2009, 2:00-3:00 p.m., in 202 Jones Hall. There will be departmental handouts, and professors available to discuss your interests. Refreshments will be served.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Class of 2011 Requirement Changes
The following change in requirements will apply for the class of 2011 and beyond:
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, *and any combination of two of the four courses HIS/EAS 207-208 and HUM/EAS/COM 233-234, *and at least one *other *course covering material outside of 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 premodern Asia.
A minimum of six of the eight departmentals must be EAS-prefixed courses, language courses at or above the 300 level (after the three year proficiency requirements is fulfilled), or any language courses in a second East Asian language.
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