CHNS at Yale University

A suggested order for the 8 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 CHNS coursework.

• CHNS 1530Advanced Modern Chinese for Heritage Speakersopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• CHNS 1570Advanced Modern Chinese through Film for Heritage Speakersopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• CHNS 1590Advanced Chinese IV through Films and Storiesopens 4 courses (4 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 CHNS 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 8 CHNS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 58 more CHNS 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 CHNS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CHNS 1610

  1. CHNS 1530Advanced Modern Chinese for Heritage Speakers
  2. CHNS 1610Chinese for the Food Culture of China

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on CHNS sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• C. Sun
• H. Chan
• H. Wang
• J. Ao
• J. Shen
• L. Bender
• M. Chen
• N. Liang
• N. Yang
• P. Lin
• P. Xu
• R. Li
• W. Su
• Y. Saussy

Yale professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CHNS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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