If you are a graduate student from Critical Asian and Middle Eastern Humanities (CAMEH)/ East Asian Studies (EAS) programs/Law School/Cultural Anthropology/other graduate programs and want to take foreign language courses (AMES languages only) as graduate level credits to count towards your graduation requirements, we have a special arrangement for that.
Sign up for:
Arabic/Chinese/JPN/Korean 781 (Fall)
Arabic/Chinese/JPN/Korean 782 (Spring)
For each course:
(i) Complete all the requirements of a regular foreign language course (e.g., JPN101, no auditing is allowed)
(ii) Attend a linguistics seminar offered by Dr. Yunchuan Chen for a graduate credit, The seminar has a total of five meetings throughout the semester (on Zoom, the detailed schedule will be discussed with students).
At the end of each semester, the instructor of your regular language course will inform Dr. Chen about your grade in his/her course and Dr. Chen will then calculate and upload your final grade (90% language+10% linguistics seminar) as your final grade for ARABIC/CHN/JPN/KOR 781/782.
2.1 For students taking Arabic, Chinese or Korean (Japanese is below in 2.2):
2.1.1 If you have some language learning background, please contact the corresponding language coordinators for a placement test:
Arabic: Maha Houssami
Chinese: Yan Liu
Korean: Hae-Young Kim
Find their email addresses in the link below.
https://asianmideast.duke.edu/people/other-faculty/our-faculty
If you are placed at ARABIC/CHN/KOR102, for example, please contact the instructor of ARABIC/CHN/KOR102 for permission and ask him/her to add you to their course website on Canvas. Please remember to cc Dr. Yunchuan Chen on your email. After receiving a permission, please register for ARABIC/CHN/KOR 781 in the fall semester or ARABIC/CHN/KOR 782 in the spring semester.
2.1.2 If you do not have any language learning background in Arabic, Chinese or Korean, please contact the instructor of ARABIC/CHN/KOR101 for permission and ask him/her to add you to their course website on Canvas. Please remember to cc Dr. Yunchuan Chen on your email. After receiving a permission, please register for ARABIC/CHN/KOR 781 in the fall semester or ARABIC/CHN/KOR 782 in the spring semester.
2.2 For students taking Japanese:
If you do not have any Japanese learning background and would like to take JPN101, please email the JPN101 instructor Professor Naoko Kurokawa about your plan AFTER the first-year undergraduate students finish their course registration, which can be found on this webpage: https://registrar.duke.edu/registration/
It is around mid-August every year.
Professor Kurokawa will inform you whether there is any space availability. If she informs you that there is a seat available, please ask her to add you to the course website on Canvas. Remember to cc Dr. Yunchuan Chen on your reply. After receiving a confirmation from Professor Kurokawa, please register for JPN 781 in the fall semester (we do not offer JPN101 in the spring semester).
If you have learned Japanese for less than two semesters in the past, please also email Professor Naoko Kurokawa.
If you have learned Japanese beyond one year, please contact Dr. Yunchuan Chen.