After JPN 003
Gateway: JPN 003
Building the department map…
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 JPN coursework.
Generated from University of California, Davis’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 JPN 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 33 JPN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 37 more JPN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on JPN, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
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Depth Subject Matter2 required · verify with the official sheet
Grading: Students may take up to two and no more than two (regular, letter-graded) courses for the major on a P/NP basis. Courses which are only offered on a P/NP basis do not count toward these limits.; Note: With prior approval of the undergraduate advisor, students already proficient in Japanese at any third-year level 1 must take other upper division Japanese (JPN) courses to replace language
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: JPN 003
Gateway: JPN 111
The deepest prerequisite chains in JPN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
12 courses deep, ending at JPN 123
11 courses deep, ending at JPN 291
3 courses deep, ending at JPN 114C
3 courses deep, ending at JPN 164
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All JPN courses in the UC Davis catalog
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