Minoring in Chinese

Requirements

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:

• take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
• earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

The undergraduate minor in Chinese consists of five courses.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Core Requirements
At least three courses must be language courses beyond CHIN 203, chosen from among the following:		9-10
CHIN 204	Intermediate Chinese II
CHIN 212	Intermediate Written Chinese
CHIN 305	Advanced Chinese I
CHIN 306	Advanced Chinese II
CHIN 313	Advanced Written Chinese
CHIN 407	Readings in Modern Chinese I
CHIN 408	Readings in Modern Chinese II
CHIN 441	Chinese-English Translation and Interpreting
CHIN 443	Business Communication in Chinese
CHIN 445	Chinese Tea Culture and Its Changing Landscape
CHIN 490	Topics in Chinese Literature and Language
CHIN 510	Introduction to Classical Chinese
CHIN 520	Stay Tuned to China
CHIN 521	Chinese History in Chinese
CHIN 525	Ancient Philosophers and Their Modern Reincarnation
CHIN 590	Advanced Topics in Chinese Literature and Language
CHIN 624	Chinese Internet Literature
CHIN 631	Writing Chinese (in) America: Advanced Studies of a Foreign Literature from United States Homeland
The other two courses may be chosen from the list above or from among the following:		6
ASIA 52	First-Year Seminar: Food in Chinese Culture 1
ASIA 55	First-Year Seminar: Kung-Fu: The Concept of Heroism in Chinese Culture 1
ASIA/WGST 56	First-Year Seminar: Writing Women in Modern China 1, H
ASIA 65	First-Year Seminar: Philosophy on Bamboo: Rethinking Early Chinese Thought 1
ASIA 75	First-Year Seminar: Love in China
CHIN 150	Introduction to Chinese Civilization
CHIN/CMPL 238	From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics
CHIN 242	Chinese Qin Music
CHIN 244	Introduction to Modern Chinese Culture through Cinema
CHIN/CMPL 247	Indigenous Spiritualities in Literatures of China and Taiwan H
CHIN 252	Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative
CHIN 253	Chinese Language and Society
CHIN 255	Bandit or Hero: Outlawry in Chinese Literature and Films
CHIN/HIST 265	Imperial China in Global Objects
CHIN 346	History as Fiction or Fiction as History? Early Chinese History in Film and Literature
CHIN 356	Chinese Environmental Literature
CHIN 361	Chinese Traditional Theater
CHIN 367	Illustration and the Animation of Text
CHIN/HIST 439	Environmental China: Premodern Political Ecology
ASIA 453	Global Shangri-La: Tibet in the Modern World
CHIN 463	Narrative Ethics in Modern China
CHIN 464	The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
CHIN 475	Confucianism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance
CHIN 476	Daoism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance
CHIN/CMPL/WGST 480	Queering China
CHIN 545	Chinese Science Fiction
CHIN 551	Chinese Poetry in Translation
CHIN 552	Chinese Prose in Translation
CHIN 562	Contemporary Chinese Urban Culture and Arts
Total Hours		15-16

H	Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

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 No more than one first-year seminar may be counted toward the minor.

Approved language courses taken in UNC–Chapel Hill-sponsored study abroad programs may count in the minor. However, study abroad courses may not substitute for culture courses, which must be taken in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Placement credit (PL) may not be used to meet minor requirements.