About the Program
Minor
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) offers a minor in Korean Language. Currently, there is no major program available for Korean Language. This minor allows students to engage deeply with the Korean language and its cultural context.
Declaring the Minor
Students can apply for the minor online with this application. Please check out the department's Korean minor page for more information or contact information for questions.
Other Majors and Minors Offered by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chinese Language (Major and Minor)
East Asian Humanities (Major only)
East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture (Major only)
Japanese Language (Major and Minor)
Tibetan (Minor only)
Minor Requirements
Students who have a strong interest in an area of study outside their major often decide to complete a minor program. These programs have set requirements.
General Guidelines
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All minors must be declared before the first day of classes in your Expected Graduation Term (EGT). For summer graduates, minors must be declared prior to the first day of Summer Session A.
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All upper-division courses must be taken for a letter grade.
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A minimum of three of the upper-division courses taken to fulfill the minor requirements must be completed at UC Berkeley.
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A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 is required in the upper-division courses to fulfill the minor requirements.
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Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements may be applied toward the Seven-Course Breadth requirement, for Letters & Science students.
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No more than one upper division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor programs.
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All minor requirements must be completed prior to the last day of finals during the semester in which the student plans to graduate. If students cannot finish all courses required for the minor by that time, they should see a College of Letters & Science adviser.
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All minor requirements must be completed within the unit ceiling. (For further information regarding the unit ceiling, please see the College Requirements tab.)
Korean Minor
Declaring
Students should review the requirements and complete the prerequisite. Upon completing the prerequisite, students may apply to declare the minor online. For the latest information related to the minor, please see the department's Korean Minor website.
Requirements
Prerequisite
- The prerequisite must be completed with a minimum grade of C or a Pass for Pass/Not Pass (letter grade not required).
- The prerequisite may be taken at another college or university.
- Equivalency—Students who have studied Korean may satisfy this requirement by completing an advanced Korean language course at UCB or a Korean placement exam.
| Code | Title | Units |
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| Prerequisite | ||
| KOREAN 10B | Intermediate Korean | 5 |
| or KOREAN 10BX | Intermediate Korean for Heritage Speakers | |
Korean Minor Upper Division Course Requirements
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Korean Courses - 3 upper-division Korean courses | ||
Lower Division Exception: One of these two courses | ||
| Introduction to Premodern Korean Literature and Culture [4] 1 | ||
or KOREAN 7B | Introduction to Modern Korean Literature and Culture | |
| KOREAN 100A | Advanced Korean | 5 |
| or KOREAN 100AX | Advanced Korean for Heritage Speakers | |
| KOREAN 100B | Advanced Korean | 5 |
| or KOREAN 100BX | Advanced Korean for Heritage Speakers | |
| KOREAN 101 | Fourth-Year Readings: Korean Literature | 4 |
| KOREAN 102 | Fourth-Year Korean: Korean Society through current issues | 4 |
| KOREAN 105 | Business Korean | 4 |
| KOREAN 109 | Korean Language in Popular Media | 4 |
| KOREAN 111 | Fifth-Year Korean: Korean Culture and History | 4 |
| KOREAN 112 | Fifth-Year Readings: Korean for Research and Professional Use | 4 |
| KOREAN 130 | Genre and Occasion in Traditional Poetry | 4 |
| KOREAN 140 | Narrating Persons and Objects in Traditional Korean Prose | 4 |
| KOREAN 150 | Modern Korean Poetry | 4 |
| KOREAN 153 | Readings in Modern Korean Literature | 4 |
| KOREAN 155 | Modern Korean Fiction | 4 |
| KOREAN 157 | Contemporary Korean Literature | 4 |
| KOREAN 161 | K-POP: A History of Korean Popular Music | 4 |
| KOREAN 170 | Intercultural Encounters in Korean Literature | 4 |
| KOREAN 172 | Gender and Korean Literature | 4 |
| KOREAN 174 | Modern Korean Fiction in Translation | 4 |
| KOREAN 180 | Critical Approaches to Modern Korean Literature | 4 |
| KOREAN 184 | Korean Independent Cinema | 4 |
| KOREAN 185 | Picturing Korea | 4 |
| KOREAN 186 | Introduction to Korean Cinema | 4 |
| KOREAN 187 | History and Memory in Korean Cinema | 4 |
| KOREAN 188 | Cold War Culture in Korea: Literature and Film | 4 |
| KOREAN 189 | Korean Film Authors | 4 |
| Two Required Electives | ||
Select two additional upper-division electives from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALANG) | ||
| Chinese | ||
| CHINESE 100A | Advanced Chinese | 5 |
| CHINESE 100B | Advanced Chinese | 5 |
| CHINESE 100XA | Advanced Chinese for Heritage Learners | 4 |
| CHINESE 100XB | Advanced Chinese for Heritage Learners | 4 |
| CHINESE 101 | Fourth-Year Chinese Readings: Literature | 4 |
| CHINESE 102 | Fourth-Year Chinese Readings: Social Sciences and History | 4 |
| CHINESE 105 | Business Chinese | 6 |
| CHINESE 110A | Introduction to Literary Chinese | 4 |
| CHINESE 110B | Introduction to Literary Chinese | 4 |
| CHINESE 111 | Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Advanced Chinese Texts | 4 |
| CHINESE 112 | Fifth-Year Readings: Chinese for Research and Professional Use | 4 |
| CHINESE C116 | Buddhism in China | 4 |
| CHINESE C118 | Buddhism in Modern China | 4 |
| CHINESE 120 | Ancient Chinese Prose | 4 |
| CHINESE 122 | Ancient Chinese Poetry | 4 |
| CHINESE 130 | Topics in Daoism | 4 |
| CHINESE 134 | Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry | 4 |
| CHINESE 136 | Readings in Medieval Prose | 4 |
| CHINESE C140 | Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts | 4 |
| CHINESE 153 | Reading Taiwan | 4 |
| CHINESE 155 | Readings in Vernacular Chinese Literature | 4 |
| CHINESE 156 | Modern Chinese Literature | 4 |
| CHINESE 157 | Contemporary Chinese Literature | 4 |
| CHINESE 158 | Reading Chinese Cities | 4 |
| CHINESE 159 | Cities and the Country | 4 |
| CHINESE 161 | Structure of the Chinese Language | 4 |
| CHINESE 165 | History of the Chinese Language | 4 |
| CHINESE 172 | Contemporary Chinese Language Cinema | 4 |
| CHINESE 176 | Bad Emperors: Fantasies of Sovereignty and Transgression in the Chinese Tradition | 4 |
| CHINESE 178 | Traditional Chinese Drama | 4 |
| CHINESE 179 | Exploring Premodern Chinese Novels | 4 |
| CHINESE 180 | The Story of the Stone | 4 |
| CHINESE 186 | Confucius and His Interpreters | 4 |
| CHINESE 187 | Literature and Media Culture in Taiwan | 4 |
| CHINESE 188 | Popular Media in Modern China | 4 |
| CHINESE 189 | Chinese Landscapes: Space, Place, and Travel | 4 |
| EALANG (taught in English Translation) | ||
| EA LANG 101 | Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century | 4 |
| EA LANG 105 | Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film | 4 |
| EA LANG 106 | Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Poetic Writing | 4 |
| EA LANG 107 | War, Empire, and Literature in East Asia | 4 |
| EA LANG 108 | Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry in Translation | 4 |
| EA LANG 109 | History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan | 4 |
| EA LANG 110 | Bio-Ethical Issues in East Asian Thought | 4 |
| EA LANG 111 | Reading Global Politics in Contemporary East Asian Literature | 4 |
| EA LANG 112 | The East Asian Sixties | 4 |
| EA LANG 114 | Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Bodies | 4 |
| EA LANG 115 | Knowing Others, and Being Known: The Art of Writing People | 4 |
| EA LANG 116 | Modern East Asian Fiction | 4 |
| EA LANG 117 | Lu Xun and his Worlds | 4 |
| EA LANG 118 | Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture | 4 |
| EA LANG 119 | The History of Heaven | 4 |
| EA LANG C120 | Buddhism on the Silk Road | 4 |
| EA LANG 125 | The Art of Writing: Writing the Limits of Empathy | 4 |
| EA LANG C126 | Buddhism and the Environment | 4 |
| EA LANG C128 | Buddhism in Contemporary Society | 4 |
| EA LANG C130 | Zen Buddhism | 4 |
| EA LANG C132 | Pure Land Buddhism | 4 |
| EA LANG C134 | Russia and Asia | 4 |
| EA LANG C135 | Tantric Traditions of Asia | 4 |
| EA LANG C142 | Psychoanalytic Theory, Asian Texts | 4 |
| EA LANG C152 | Buddhist Astral Science | 4 |
| EA LANG 160 | Neurodiversity in Literature | 4 |
| EA LANG 162 | Science Fiction in East Asia | 4 |
| EA LANG C175 | Archaeology of East Asia | 4 |
| EA LANG 180 | East Asian Film: Directors and their Contexts | 4 |
| EA LANG 181 | East Asian Film: Special Topics in Genre | 4 |
| EA LANG 191 | Tools and Methods in the Study of East Asian Philosophy and Religion | 4 |
| Japanese | ||
| JAPAN 100A | Advanced Japanese | 5 |
| JAPAN 100B | Advanced Japanese | 5 |
| JAPAN 100S | Japanese for Sinologists | 4 |
| JAPAN 101 | Fourth-Year Japanese: Aspects of Japanese Society | 4 |
| JAPAN 102 | Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Culture | 4 |
| JAPAN 103 | Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Literature | 4 |
| JAPAN 104 | Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese History | 4 |
| JAPAN 105 | Fourth-Year Japanese: Current Issues in Japan | 4 |
| JAPAN 110 | Learning Japanese through Community Service in Japan | 6 |
| JAPAN 111 | Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Advanced Japanese Texts | 4 |
| JAPAN 112 | Fifth-Year Readings: Japanese for Research and Professional Use | 4 |
| JAPAN C115 | Buddhism and its Culture in Japan | 4 |
| JAPAN 116 | Introduction to the Religions of Japan | 4 |
| JAPAN 120 | Introduction to Classical Japanese | 4 |
| JAPAN 130 | Classical Japanese Poetry | 4 |
| JAPAN 132 | Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature | 4 |
| JAPAN 140 | Heian Prose | 4 |
| JAPAN C141 | Introductory Readings in Kanbun | 4 |
| JAPAN 144 | Edo Literature | 4 |
| JAPAN 146 | Japanese Historical Documents | 4 |
| JAPAN 155 | Modern Japanese Literature | 4 |
| JAPAN 159 | Contemporary Japanese Literature | 4 |
| JAPAN 160 | Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Grammar | 4 |
| JAPAN 161 | Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage | 4 |
| JAPAN 163 | Translation: Theory and Practice | 4 |
| JAPAN 164 | Reading Japanese Texts Using Advanced Grammatical Analysis | 4 |
| JAPAN 170 | Classical Japanese Literature in Translation | 4 |
| JAPAN 173 | Modern Japanese Literature in Translation | 4 |
| JAPAN C176 | Archaeology and Japanese Identities | 4 |
| JAPAN 177 | Urami: Rancor and Revenge in Japanese Literature | 4 |
| JAPAN 178 | Murakami Haruki and Miyazaki Hayao: the Politics of Japanese Culture from the Bubble to the Present | 4 |
| JAPAN 180 | Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination | 4 |
| JAPAN 181 | Reframing Disasters: Fukushima, Before and After | 4 |
| JAPAN 185 | Introduction to Japanese Cinema | 4 |
| JAPAN 188 | Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime | 4 |
| JAPAN 189 | Topics in Japanese Film | 4 |
| Korean (see list above) | ||
| Mongolian | ||
| MONGOLN 110 | Literary Mongolian | 4 |
| MONGOLN 116 | The Mongol Empire | 4 |
| MONGOLN C117 | Mongolian Buddhism | 4 |
| MONGOLN 118 | Modern Mongolia | 4 |
| Tibetan | ||
| TIBETAN 100S | Advanced Tibetan Conversation | 1 |
| TIBETAN 110A | Intensive Readings in Tibetan | 4 |
| TIBETAN 110B | Intensive Readings in Tibetan | 4 |
| TIBETAN C114 | Tibetan Buddhism | 4 |
| TIBETAN 115 | Contemporary Tibet | 4 |
| TIBETAN 116 | Traditional Tibet | 4 |
| TIBETAN 118 | The Politics of Modern Tibet | 4 |
| TIBETAN 119 | Tibetan Medicine in History and Society | 4 |
| TIBETAN C154 | Death, Dreams, and Visions in Tibetan Buddhism | 4 |
| TIBETAN C214 | Seminar in Tibetan Buddhism | 2,4 |
| TIBETAN C224 | Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts | 2,4 |
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Lower Division Exception - Either KOREAN 7A or 7B may be used to meet one upper division requirement.
Contact Information
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
3413 Dwinelle Hall
Phone: 510-642-3480
Fax: 510-642-6031
Student Services Advisor
Cassandra Dunn
7228 Dwinelle Hall
Phone: 510-643-8741