Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in Japanese Studies
The minor in Japanese Studies may be of particular interest to students in business, social sciences, and other languages and interdisciplinary subjects. It includes both language and literature and other Japanese area studies courses.
A minor in Japanese Studies (EALC) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- Completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school.
- Completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course.
- All course work must be at the 200 level or above.
- 6 credits must be at the 300 level or above.
- A minimum of 6 credit hours must be taken on the IU Indianapolis campus
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
Prerequisites:
Completion of first-year college Japanese or equivalent (EALC-J 131 and J 132: Beginning Japanese I-II, 4 credits each at IU Indianapolis).
Minor Requirements-choose 5 courses (15 cr.):
- EALC-E 231: Japan: The Living Tradition (3 cr.)
- EALC-E 351: Studies in East Asian Culture (3-6 cr.)
- EALC-E 384: East Asian Nationalism and Cultural Identity (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 201: Second-Year Japanese I (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 202: Second-Year Japanese II (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 301: Third-Year Japanese I (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 302: Third-Year Japanese II (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 330: Business Japanese (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 401: Fourth-Year Japanese I (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 402: Fourth-Year Japanese II (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 495: Japanese Translation Seminar (3 cr.)
- EALC-J 498: Individual Studies in Japanese (1-3 cr.)
