Pictured | Lucas Geren | Bachelor in Fine Arts in Integrated New Media Studies, Video and Motion Media / Minor in East Asian Studies | Elkhart, Indiana (hometown)
Club Affiliations | Advertising Club, Marketing Club, Japanese Club, International Student Organization, Black Student Union, Gamer's Guild,  Massive Attack Improv Club

Minor in East Asian Studies

• All coursework for the minor must be planned with an advisor from the East Asian Studies minor faculty. 
• Students seeking to apply a course with a comprehensive theme (rather than with an East Asian regional theme) to the minor must demonstrate that a major portion of their works, such as a longer term paper or research assignment, has dealt directly with a topic of East Asia.
• Courses should also represent a student’s range of study beyond one national framework.

Academic Advising

Your academic advisor is a critical partner in fostering your success at IU South Bend and beyond. Your advisor will help you explore academic majors and careers, plan your degree, choose classes, learn about internships and study abroad, and much more. To see who is assigned as your advisor, visit your Student Online Advising Record in one.iu.edu. For more information about advising at IU South Bend, visit the website for the Undergraduate Advising Center.

Final responsibility for meeting degree requirements rests with the student.

Questions about advising? Email sbadvise@iu.edu or call (574) 520-4550.

Concentration Requirements (15 cr.)

• Five classes, no more than four, from any department.
• Three classes at the 200–level or above.
• Participation in a study abroad program in East Asia is strongly encouraged, but not required.
• All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise noted.

Select five classes from the following, or an approved alternate:

• EALC-E 270 Japanese Language and Society
• EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
• EALC-E 350 Studies in East Asian Society
• EALC-J 133 Foreign Study in Japanese, First Year
• EALC-J 201 Second Year Japanese 1
• EALC-J 202 Second Year Japanese 2
• EALC-J 233 Foreign Study in Japanese, Second Year
• EALC-J 301 Third Year Japanese 1
• EALC-J 302 Third Year Japanese 2
• EALC-J 310 Japanese Conversation
• EALC-J 333 Foreign Study in Japanese, 3rd Year
• EALC-J 401 Fourth Year Japanese I
• EALC-J 402 Fourth Year Japanese II
• EALC-J 433 Foreign Study in Japanese, 4th Year
• EALC-J 451 Readings in Japanese Newspapers and Journals
• ENG-W 250 Writing in Context
  VT: Japan/Hong Kong: Travel Writing
• HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History
• HIST-G 358 Early Modern Japan
• HIST-G 369 Modern Japan
• HIST-G 385 Modern China; OR
  HIST-G 485 Modern China
• HIST-G 387 Contemporary China
• HIST-G 410 China, Japan, and the United States in the 20th and 21st Century
• HIST-G 465 Chinese Revolutions and the Communist Regime
• HIST-H 207 Modern East Asian Civilization
• HIST-H 237 Traditional East Asian Civilization
• INTL-I 490 International Studies Capstone Seminar
• PHIL-P 374 Early Chinese Philosophy
• REL-R 153 Religions of Asia