Japanese Minor Program
Minor in Japanese Language and Culture (18 credits)
• 3 credits: one MLL core course:
•MLL/LING/ENGL190 The World Language I
•MLL/LING/ENGL191 The World Language II
•MLL/LING230 World Language Communities
•MLL301 Textual Analysis
(Note: All core courses must be taken at UMBC)
• 6 credits: two upper level Japanese language courses:
• JPNS301 Advanced Japanese I [Fall]
• JPNS302 Advanced Japanese II [Spring]
• 9 credits in JPNS or MLL electives (3 credits must be JPNS):
• JPNS309 Business Japanese [Fall]
• JPNS319 Japanese Translation [Spring]
• MLL316 Japanese Language in Society [Fall, odd year]
• MLL317 Images of Society in Modern Japanese Films
[Fall, even year]• MLL327 Modern Japanese Culture [Spring, odd year]
• MLL333 Japanese Food Culture [Spring, even year]
• An MLL topics course (or course in another discipline) relevant to Japanese language and culture, with the approval of the MLLI department.
