College of Arts & Sciences
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Programs

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers programs focused on the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages and cultures.

Traditional Chinese paintings of a women looking surrounded by nature.

Chinese

There are learning extensively, and having a firm and sincere aim; inquiring with earnestness, and reflecting with self-application. Virtue is in such a course.

Chinese Program
Traditional Japanese painting of two women and a child by the water with a group of people sitting next to them.

Japanese

Summer night ending so soon while on the river shallows a sliver of moon remains –Buson

Japanese Program
Traditional Korean painting of a mountain with fog and villages.

Korean

Dynamic Korea, Dramatic Korean, Thrilling Culture

Korean Program

East Asian Languages & Cultures

The major in East Asian Language and Cultures (EALC) enables students to focus on more cultural content courses than is normally possible in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language majors.

EALC Program