Minors

Department of East Asian studies offers two Minors:

Language Minors

A student majoring in a department other than East Asian studies may earn a language minor in Chinese by completing seven courses, including six language courses (two or more of which must be beyond the second-year level) and at least one EAS or cognate course. Courses taken on a pass/D/fail basis will not be counted.

Students must also complete a substantial piece of research (20-25 pages) based at least in part on Chinese language sources dealing with aspects of East Asia. The topic must be in the humanities or social sciences. The paper could be either an original piece of research, or a junior paper or senior thesis. If the paper or senior thesis is written for another department, at least half of the work must be on East Asia.

For more information:

https://eas.princeton.edu/undergraduate/language-minors/chinese

East Asian Studies minor:

A student majoring in a department other than East Asian studies may earn a EAS Program minor in Chinese by two years of study in Chinese – four courses, at least two of which must be at the second-year level or higher and three East Asia content courses, one of them a 200-level course. Earning EAS program Minor also require a written work, which may be a senior thesis, a junior paper, or an independent research paper with an East Asian topical component. “East Asian Topic” means the thesis is more than half about East Asia.

For more information:

https://eap.princeton.edu/eas-minor