Minor in Asian Studies

24 units total (with no more than six units from level 1)

12-15 units

• CHINESE 1Z06 A/B - Mandarin Chinese for Beginners
• JAPANESE 1Z06 A/B - Beginner's Intensive Japanese
• JAPANESE 2X03 - Japanese Anime (taught in English)
• SANSKRIT 2A03 - Introduction to Sanskrit I
• SANSKRIT 2B03 - Introduction to Sanskrit II
• SCAR 2F03 - Storytelling in Asian Religions
• SCAR 2GB3 - Great Books in Asian Religions
• SCAR 2IR3 - Hollywood/Bollywood and Indian Religions
• SCAR 2K03 - Introduction to Buddhism
• SCAR 2MT3 - Asian Meditation Traditions
• SCAR 2NH3 - Gods, Ghosts, and Gandharvas: A Survey of Non-Human Realms in Asian Religions
• SCAR 2SA3 - Encountering the Sacred
• SCAR 2SB3 - Introduction to Sanskrit II
• SCAR 2SK3 - Introduction to Sanskrit I
• SCAR 2TT3 - Religion and Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan

9-12 units

from

• JAPANESE 2Z03 - Intermediate Intensive Japanese I
• JAPANESE 2ZZ3 - Intermediate Intensive Japanese II
• SANSKRIT 3A03 - Readings in Sanskrit
• SANSKRIT 3A06 A/B
• SANSKRIT 3B03 - Advanced Readings in Sanskrit
• SANSKRIT 4B06 A/B
• SCAR 3BE3 - Buddhist Ethics
• SCAR 3E03 - Japanese Film and Religion
• SCAR 3S03 - The East Asian Religious Tradition
• SCAR 3U03 - The Buddhist Tradition in India
• SCAR 3UU3 - Buddhism in East Asia

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