After CHIN 4042
Gateway: CHIN 4042
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CHIN coursework.
Generated from University of Colorado Boulder’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CHIN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.
Showing the 15 CHIN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 43 more CHIN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on CHIN, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Required Coursesall required
Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
The remaining 12 credit hours (at least 5 of which much be upper-division) may be chosen from the courses listed below; 3 of these credit hours may be satisfied by courses focusing wholly or substantially on China offered in other departments, subject to approval by the Chinese undergraduate faculty advisor.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in CHIN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
7 courses deep, ending at CHIN 4110
7 courses deep, ending at CHIN 5010
All CHIN courses in the CU Boulder catalog
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Use your school emailNo section schedule with instructor names for CHIN yet.
No clubs or organizations on record under CHIN yet.
This shows once five students share their club memberships.
CHIN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CU Boulder campus feed.