JAPN at George Washington University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate JAPN coursework.

• JAPN 1002Beginning Japanese II.opens 15 courses (1.5 directly)
• JAPN 2003Intermediate Japanese I.opens 12 courses (1.3 directly)
• JAPN 2004Intermediate Japanese II.opens 11 courses (0.8 directly)
• JAPN 2006Intensive Intermediate Japaneseopens 11 courses (0.5 directly)
• JAPN 3105Intermediate Japanese III.opens 10 courses (1.3 directly)
• JAPN 3106Intermediate Japanese IV.opens 9 courses (6.3 directly)

The map

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 JAPN 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 18 JAPN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 16 more JAPN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on JAPN, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in JAPN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 8 courses deep, ending at JAPN 4110

  1. JAPN 1001Beginning Japanese I.
  2. JAPN 1002Beginning Japanese II.
  3. JAPN 2003Intermediate Japanese I.
  4. JAPN 2004Intermediate Japanese II.
  5. JAPN 3105Intermediate Japanese III.
  6. JAPN 3106Intermediate Japanese IV.
  7. JAPN 4109Introduction to Bungo, Literary Japanese
  8. JAPN 4110Readings in Classical Japanese

• 8 courses deep, ending at JAPN 4199

  1. JAPN 1001Beginning Japanese I.
  2. JAPN 1002Beginning Japanese II.
  3. JAPN 2003Intermediate Japanese I.

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for JAPN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under JAPN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

JAPN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the GWU campus feed.