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    Academic Learning Compact - East Asian Languages and Literatures

    The major in East Asian languages and literatures, with specializations in Chinese or Japanese, enables you to achieve language proficiency in Chinese or Japanese. Through study of literature, film, culture and linguistics, you gain knowledge of literary and historical genres, systems of thought and language structure and use. Emphasis is on cultivating your ability to assemble arguments from literary or media texts and to analyze patterns in language. You will learn to locate and use reference tools and to demonstrate the ability to communicate independent, critical perspectives.

    Additional information is available from your major's website.

    Before Graduating You Must

    • Pass the Chinese STAMP Proficiency Test Level 4, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level N3 or the equivalent by the end of the second semester of the third-year language course.
    • Achieve satisfactory faculty evaluation of a self-selected term paper written for an upper-division course or senior thesis.
    • Complete requirements for the baccalaureate degree, as determined by faculty.

    Skills You Will Acquire in the Major (SLOs)

    1. Report proficiency in Chinese or Japanese in the third year of language study.
    2. Describe literary genres and define basic historical genres in East Asian literature; or identify formal patterns of sound and syntax in Chinese or Japanese and appraise the social patterns of language use in context.
    3. Analyze meaning based on genre attributes.
    4. Identify strategies for assembling arguments from literary or media texts; or assess patterns in linguistic data and create frameworks toward their analysis.
    5. Locate and apply the use of reference tools to produce an independent perspective to critical arguments.
    6. Formulate premises in argumentation, judiciously select materials and effectively construct independent, critical perspectives in oral and written form.
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    Table Key: I = Introduced; R = Reinforced; A = Assessed

    Courses Content Critical Thinking Communication
    SLO 1 SLO 2 SLO 3 SLO 4 SLO 5 SLO 6
    Language Courses I, R, A          
    Language courses include CHI 3410/3411, JPN 3410/3411 or two 3000-level or above advanced language courses such as CHI 3440, CHW 4120, CHW 4121, CHW 4130, CHW 4140, JPN 3440, JPW 4130 and JPW 4131. More information: EALL major.
    Non-Language Courses   I, R, A I, R, A I, R, A I, R, A I, R, A
    Non-language courses include any courses other than the courses listed above. Choose any five courses listed on EALL major.
    Proficiency Test A          
    Students must take the Chinese STAMP Proficiency Test Level 4, or the equivalent, by the end of the second semester of the third-year language course - OR -
    The Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level N3, or the equivalent, by the end of the second semester of the third-year language course. More information: EALL major.

    Assessment Types:
    Proficiency test and term paper for upper-division course or a senior thesis.

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