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Bachelor of Arts Program Requirements: Chinese

There are three options for students interested in a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese: the culture-intensive program, the language-intensive program, and the linguistics-intensive option. Options within majors are ways of focusing academic interests, but they do not appear on grade transcripts. Other terms used for options include areas of concentration, emphasis, focus, or specialization; preparatory programs; primary and secondary areas or subjects; fields or subfields; programs of emphasis or study; and tracks.

Prospective majors must meet with an academic adviser when declaring the major as well as each spring to obtain the adviser’s signature before fall term registration, and two terms before graduation. Any course for which a grade lower than C- is received does not count toward the major.

BA Degree in Chinese – Culture-Intensive Option (check list)
47 graded credits are required in courses beyond the second-year level, including:

  • Third-year Chinese (CHN301, 302, 303)
  • Four courses from the 150, 151, 152 series, the 305, 306, 307 series or 308 – two of which must be at the upper division level
  • Four upper-division courses in Chinese language, culture, literature, linguistics, film or other adviser-approved areas taken from this or other departments. Of these, at least three must be from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, with two having the CHN subject code. A third non-Chinese course chosen from within the department may also count toward the culture-intensive option.

BA Degree in Chinese – Language-Intensive Option (check list)
47 graded credits are required in courses beyond the second-year level of Chinese including:

  • Third-Year Chinese (CHN 301, 302, 303)
  • Introduction to Chinese Literature/Linguistics – three courses from CHN 305, 306, 307, 308, 480
  • Literary Chinese (CHN 436, 437)
  • Three courses chosen from Fourth-Year Chinese (CHN 411, 412, 413), Intermediate, Literary Chinese Texts (CHN 438), Chinese Academic Writing (CHN 439) and Advanced Language Strategies (CHN 445).

BA Degree in Chinese – Linguistics-Intensive Option (check list)
47 graded credits are required in courses beyond the second-year level, including:

  • Third-year Chinese (CHN301, 302, 303).
  • Two upper-division language courses beyond Third-year level, including Fourth-Year Chinese (CHN411, 412, 413), Intermediate Language Strategies (CHN 420, 421, 422), Chinese Academic Writing (CHN439), and Advanced Language Strategies (CHN445).
  • Three linguistics survey courses from CHN480, 482, EALL209, LING301. CHN480 must be taken if available.
  • Two advisor-approved upper division East Asian Languages and Literatures linguistics courses, including CHN481, 482, 436, 437, EALL440, 442, 443, 486.
  • One advisor-approved upper division elective course with the subject codes EALL, CHN, or LING.