JAPAN at University of Washington

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 JAPAN coursework.

• JAPAN 102First-Year Japaneseopens 29 courses (1 directly)
• JAPAN 103First-Year Japaneseopens 28 courses (4 directly)
• JAPAN 201Second-Year Japaneseopens 26 courses (3 directly)
• JAPAN 202Second-Year Japaneseopens 25 courses (3 directly)
• JAPAN 203Second-Year Japaneseopens 24 courses (8 directly)
• JAPAN 234Second-Year Intensive Japaneseopens 23 courses (6 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 JAPAN 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 48 JAPAN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 29 more JAPAN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 13 courses deep, ending at JAPAN 543

  1. JAPAN 101First-Year Japanese
  2. JAPAN 102First-Year Japanese
  3. JAPAN 103First-Year Japanese
  4. JAPAN 201Second-Year Japanese
  5. JAPAN 202Second-Year Japanese
  6. JAPAN 203Second-Year Japanese
  7. JAPAN 301Third-Year Japanese
  8. JAPAN 302Third-Year Japanese
  9. JAPAN 303Third-Year Japanese
  10. JAPAN 401Fourth-Year Japanese I
  11. JAPAN 402Fourth-Year Japanese II
  12. JAPAN 403Fourth-Year Japanese III
  13. JAPAN 543Japanese Language in Society

• 12 courses deep, ending at JAPAN 443

  1. JAPAN 101First-Year Japanese
  2. JAPAN 102First-Year Japanese
  3. JAPAN 103First-Year Japanese

• 12 courses deep, ending at JAPAN 473

  1. JAPAN 101First-Year Japanese
  2. JAPAN 102First-Year Japanese
  3. JAPAN 103First-Year Japanese

• 2 courses deep, ending at JAPAN 434

  1. JAPAN 321Classical Japanese Literature
  2. JAPAN 434Seminar in Premodern Japanese Literature

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for JAPAN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under JAPAN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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