EALC at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 23 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 EALC coursework.

• EALC 0020Introduction to East Asia: Chinaopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• EALC 0040Introduction to East Asia: Japanopens 1 course (1 directly)
• EALC 3621Introduction to Classical Chinese Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• EALC 7621Introduction to Classical Chinese Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• EALC 8621Advanced Classical Chinese Iopens 1 course (1 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 EALC 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 23 EALC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 474 more EALC 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 EALC, 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 EALC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at EALC 1724

  1. EALC 0020Introduction to East Asia: China
  2. EALC 1724China's Last Empire: The Qing

• 2 courses deep, ending at EALC 3622

  1. EALC 3621Introduction to Classical Chinese I
  2. EALC 3622Introduction to Classical Chinese II

• 2 courses deep, ending at EALC 3641

  1. JPAN 0600High Intermediate Japanese II
  2. EALC 3641Readings in Classical Japanese I

• 2 courses deep, ending at EALC 4050

  1. EALC 0040Introduction to East Asia: Japan
  2. EALC 4050Major Seminar on Japan

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for EALC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under EALC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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