Major Requirements

Course Requirements

• 24-32 credit hours of 200/300 level courses in Japanese Language
• 20-28 credit hours of Allied Courses from at least three different departments

Please consult the current approved Japanese Studies Allied Course List.  Students who begin their study of Japanese at DePaul with JPN 202 or higher may substitute a 300-level Japanese elective course for any of the required 200-level courses.

Japanese Studies Allied Course List

Art and Architecture, History of

• HAA 216 JAPANESE ART
• HAA 220 BUDDHIST ART
• HAA 297 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE: Japanese Film Arts
• HAA 311 LATER JAPANESE PAINTINGS AND PRINTS
• HAA 373 KYOTO (WORLD CITIES)
• HAA 397 SPECIAL TOPICS/HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE : Japanese Painting and Prints
• HAA 397 SPECIAL TOPICS/HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE : Japanese Art and the Warrior Elite

Geography

• GEO 315 ASIA'S PACIFIC RIM

History

• HST 263 JAPAN TO C. 1200
• HST 264 JAPAN c.1200 - 1800
• HST 265 JAPAN, c. 1800-PRESENT
• HST 322 TOPICS IN ASIAN HISTORY
• HST 339 HISTORY FROM PICTURES: VISUAL CULTURE IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
• HST 340 CULTURE AND GENDER IN JAPAN

International Studies

• INT 330 EAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES I : Japanese Culture I
• INT 331 EAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES II : Japanese Culture II

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

• MLS 407 SELF,CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN (undergraduates by permission)

Modern Languages

• MOL 308 TOPICS IN JAPANESE LITERATURE
• MOL 310 JAPANESE CULTURE
• MOL 320 MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Philosophy

• PHL 287 INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN PHILOSOPHIES

Political Science

• PSC 253 ASIAN POLITICS
• PSC 349 ADVANCED TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: International Political Economy of the Pacific Rim
• PSC 359 ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: Japanese Politics, Culture, and Society

Religious Studies

• REL 202 ETHICAL WORLDS: MORAL ISSUES ACROSS CULTURES: Atom Bomb Discourse
• REL 205 RELIGION AND ETHICS II: Japanese Ethics
• REL 222 CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES: Industrial Disease in Cross-cultural Perspective
• REL 245 RELIGION IN JAPANESE HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
• REL 247 LITERATURE AND RELIGION IN JAPAN
• REL 320 TOPICS IN RELIGIOUS ETHICS: Atomic Age
• REL 342 ZEN MIND  

Open Electives

Open elective credit also is required to meet the minimum graduation requirement of 192 hours.