Japanese Major
Japanese Major
Guidelines for Japanese Special Major ProposalUnder normal circumstances this major cannot be completed without considerable study abroad.
66 credits
It is the student's responsibility, in consultation with advisors, to devise a program suited to that student's needs and interests. If you are considering a Japanese major, you might begin by thinking about what you would choose as a comps project, then construct a program of classes that would provide the background (linguistic, culture, methodological) that your project will require. There is considerable flexibility in course choice, including all language, literature and most culture courses offered at off-campus study programs in Japan. Courses available at Carleton are listed below.
30-36 credits Language Courses
Prerequisites Students must have completed Japanese 205 or the equivalent.
Japanese Language:
(At least two of the following courses are required)
Japanese 344. Adv. Writing: Contemporary Prose
Japanese 348. Adv. Conversation and Composition
Literature & Culture in Japanese:
Japanese 346. Adv. Rdng in Mod Lit-Poetry & Drama
Japanese 347. Adv. Rdng in Cont. Prose-Newspapers
Japanese 349. Adv. Rdng in Contemporary Japanese Prose
Japanese 350. Adv. Readings in Contemporary Culture
Japanese 351. Adv. Japanese through Documentary Film
Japanese 352. Adv. Japanese through Manga and Contemporary Materials
(if focus is literature)
12 credits Literature in Trans: One modern, one pre-modern
Japanese 231. Japanese Cinema in Translation
Japanese 232. Autobiography in Modern Japan
Japanese 234. Modern Japanese Novel: Mothers/Daughters;
Fathers/Sons
Japanese 236. Classical Japanese Fiction in translation:
The Tale of Genji and Its World
Japanese 237. Literature and Arts of Japan: 1333-1868
Japanese 240. Literature and Society of Modern Japan
Japanese 241. Contemporary and Modern Japanese Fiction
Japanese 242. Japanese Poetry
Japanese 243. The Other in Modern Japanese Literature
& Society
6 credits Methodology:
(if focus is linguistics)
12 credits Linguistics
Asian Languages 260. Historical Linguistics
Linguistics 170. Linguistics of the Japanese Writing System
Linguistics 180. The Structure of Japanese Language
12 credits Theory/Methodology
Linguistics 115. Intro to Theory of Syntax
Linguistics 216. Morpho Syntax
Linguistics 217. Phonetics and Phonology
Linguistics 280. Field Methods in Linguistics
6-12 credits Cognates:
History 151. History of Modern Japan
Course on Japanese society or culture appropriate to comps
6 credits Senior Comprehensive Exercise
(see Integrative Exercises in Japanese: Process Overview)
-Language Proficiency (Oral presentation in Japanese)
66 credits
Japanese Comps
Integrative Exercises in Japanese: Process Overview
