<p>I am a junior in high school and am very interested in east asian languages, even though my school does not offer any. I traveled to China and Japan a few years ago and completely fell in love with the cultures. What are some good schools in the U.S. to study Chinese or Japanese?</p>
<p>I spent a year abroad in Japan for my sophomore year in high school. I don’t know about your stats, but anyway, I’m a senior, and I applied to:</p>
<p>Baylor U (safety)
Emory U
U Virginia
U North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Georgetown U
Washington U in St. Louis
Yale
Brown
Princeton</p>
<p>Besides the Ivies, Washington U, Emory, and Georgetown are particularly strong in my opinion. Right now I’m typing from my phone, but you can PM me and I’ll answer any questions you have later.</p>
<p>University of Washington (Seattle)
[Languages</a> & Degrees - Asian Languages & Literature at the University of Washington](<a href=“http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/lang_degs/lang_degs.html]Languages”>http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/lang_degs/lang_degs.html)</p>
<p>The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) in the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University is one of the largest programs of its kind in the continental United States. It offers undergraduate degrees in Chinese and Japanese language and literature, as well as a growing number of courses in Korean language and culture. The graduate program offers the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in both Chinese and Japanese in the areas of literature, linguistics, and language pedagogy. DEALL’s undergraduate language programs offer one of the most extensive and diverse curricula in the country. They include innovative programs such as the Individualized Track and the Intensive Track language programs, which are offered throughout the regular academic year, as well as the Intensive Track Summer Language Immersion Programs in Chinese and Japanese. Furthermore, DEALL offers an impressive array of specialized courses in the summer including intensive workshops designed to instruct teachers of Chinese and Japanese in the art of language teaching at both the college and secondary school levels. Developments in the near future include a summer series of courses on Chinese drama and film. </p>
<p>The Department has been the recipient of an Academic Challenge Grant from the State of Ohio for its innovative and excellent program in Japanese Studies. This grant facilitates Japan related research activities throughout the College of Humanities and provided for the recent hiring of one Japan specialist in history and another in Japanese literature. </p>
<p>The Faculty
There are currently eighteen full-time faculty, half of whom are female. It is one of the most active and productive of any faculty in the country in East Asian studies, with the publication of over thirty books in Chinese and Japanese literature and linguistics, and numerous articles and conference presentations. It is also the former site of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, which was edited by faculty members for nearly fifteen years. As of January 1998, it is the site of the Chinese Language Teachers Association Home Page, maintained by Prof. Marjorie Chan and co-hosted by the College of Humanities and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. DEALL is also the new home of the journal, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture . Professor Kirk Denton is the Editor. Other Web sites maintained by DEALL faculty include Professor Mari Noda’s SPEAC home page for the Summer Program East Asian Concentration, and Professor Galal Walker’s US/China Links. In addition, there are, of course, other Web pages created in the Department by faculty, including course pages and other interesting links. </p>
<p>Faculty have organized a number of workshops, symposia, and conferences over the years. They have received research grants from such organizations and agencies as the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Humanities Council, and the Social Science Research Council. In addition, several faculty have received Japan Foundation and Fulbright-Hays fellowships, as well as a grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo(CCK) Foundation. One faculty was named a National Foreign Language Center Fellow, and another was selected as one of the University’s first Lilly Foundation Fellows. Two faculty were in Japan as Fulbright scholars for the 1993-94 academic year, while a third was a Visiting Scholar at Tohoku University, holding one of the most prestigious positions available for an American scholar of Japanese. </p>
<p>Faculty are also engaged in consultation with business and industry and evaluation of programs at other universities. Consultations with businesses include the teaching of Japanese or Chinese to employees of Battelle, Borg-Warner, and Honda. Faculty have evaluated programs at Bryn Mawr, Wittenberg, Berkeley, and Connecticut College, among others.</p>
<p>Link: [The</a> Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures](<a href=“http://deall.osu.edu/aboutUs/default.cfm]The”>http://deall.osu.edu/aboutUs/default.cfm)</p>
<p>Have a look at the following (from more to less selective):</p>
<p>Princeton, Harvard
Middlebury, Georgetown, University of Chicago
Oberlin, Berkeley
University of Washington, University of Hawaii (Manoa)</p>
<p>I don’t know about Japanese but Middlebury’s Chinese program is excellent. Very intense, great professors, opportunity to do January term, and great study abroad opportunities in China.</p>
<p>number of bachelors grads in East Asian Languages/Studies</p>
<p>sorted by selectivity</p>
<p>Yale University 5
University of Chicago 4
Dartmouth College 4
Williams College 8
Reed College 2
Stanford University 5
Georgetown University 16
University of Notre Dame 2
Tufts University 9
Wellesley College 4
Carleton College 2
Washington University in St Louis 10
University of Pennsylvania 15
Northwestern University 3
Grinnell College 5
Vassar College 6
Middlebury College 14
Washington and Lee University 2
Emory University 5
Macalester College 5
University of Southern California 24
Colgate University 3
University of California-Berkeley 41
Smith College 8
Beloit College 11
University of Rochester 5
Wake Forest University 3
Bennington College 5
George Washington University 8
Trinity University 4
University of California-Los Angeles 22
University of Maryland-College Park 26
Boston University 5
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 32
University of Florida 15
North Central College 3
Brigham Young University 55
University of Wisconsin-Madison 19
University of Georgia 13
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 17
The University of Texas at Austin 33
Ohio State University-Main Campus 35
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 37
University of California-Santa Barbara 14
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus 2
University of the Pacific 3
University of Colorado at Boulder 41
Rutgers University-New Brunswick 3
University of Utah 22
University of California-Davis 40
University of California-Irvine 18
Indiana University-Bloomington 13
Michigan State University 14
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 12
University of Massachusetts Amherst 34
Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus 24</p>
<p>Penn has wonderful East Asian Area studies departments. It is also somewhat unique in offering not one but 2 East Asia studies majors…one (EAST, East Asian area STudies) focusing on more modern day politics, sociology, econ, while the other (EALC, East Asian Languages & Civilizations) is more anthropology, culture, philosophy sort of stuff. </p>
<p>And of course you can mix and match between the two to your heart’s content :)</p>
<p>Well I know I absolutely have no chance at any Ivy’s. I have a 3.736 unweighted and am in the top 15% of my class. I am right now leaning towards UW- Madison or U of Chicago (if I get accepted)</p>
<p>A great place to start is to check out Confucius Institute for information on Chinese programs. [America_Confucius</a> Institutes_Confucius Institutes Online](<a href=“http://college.chinese.cn/en/node_3777.htm]America_Confucius”>http://college.chinese.cn/en/node_3777.htm) or check with a university in your local area. Chinese programs are springing up everywhere so be careful and do a lot of research. Also the Confucius Institute can help you locate Mandarin Language programs in your area that you can start before you enter college. </p>
<p>祝您好运！</p>
<p>The University of Virginia is missing from this list. First of all, while the Confucius Institutes may be a good thing, they are not a good indicator of the breadth and depth of an East Asian studies program. Often it is precisely the schools that have almost nothing in East Asian studies who are most attracted to the quick fix of a Confucius Institute. East Asian studies in the US has a long history, at least 100 years, with the earliest programs to excel being the Ivy league universities. Many good public universities, particularly the premier public universities in each state in the northern half of the continental US (Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey) have strong, sizable and well-seasoned Asian studies programs. The University of Virginia is the premier East Asian studies program among southeastern universities, with only Duke being better. With particular strength in Political Science and Religious Studies, Virginia has for many years had superb Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language teaching, and has two tenured professors in both Chinese and Japanese literature. Just this year UVa successfully won a Title VI grant from the federal government designating it as one of only a dozen or more critical language National Resource Centers for East Asian Languages. The special features of UVa’s East Asian Language programs are that, unlike most other universities that offer East Asian languages, UVa’s teachers can train other teachers and each of the three languages has Oral Proficiency Interviewers Certified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. For Chinese, UVa also offers a highly effective summer intensive language program at East China Normal University in Shanghai.</p>
<p>Oberlin should definitely be on your list. </p>
<p>The Chinese language instructors I’ve had are superb with one having taught in Middlebury’s summer Mandarin program. Professors take a personal interest in each student’s progress and make it a point to ensure you succeed in learning the language as long as you’re willing to put in the work. </p>
<p>Moreover, Oberlin’s Chinese language studies program is highly respected among Ivy graduate faculty in East Asian studies IME. </p>
<p>Incidentally, Oberlin’s strength in East Asian studies was one reason why I went there.</p>
<p>Agree with Cobrat. Plus Oberlin has fabulous opportunities to travel, study and work in Asian through the Shansi program</p>
<p>[Shansi</a> ::: About Shansi](<a href=“http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/shansi/shansi06.php?section=about]Shansi”>http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/shansi/shansi06.php?section=about)</p>
<p>Lots of good suggestions. Also check out the University of British Columbia and, for Japanese, Earlham College.</p>
<p>"The Chinese language instructors I’ve had are superb "
D1 felt the same way, very good Chinese teachers at Oberlin.</p>
<p>My D is interested in East Asia Studies with a focus on the role of arts in influencing past, present and future socio-economic aspects in that region. She’s a keen/critical sense of arts but doesn’t think that she has the talents to practice arts and is totally interested in the culture of East Asia. Plans to take AP Chinese exam in junior year and then learn Japanese. Any insights on how to go about her college years to fulfill this interest?</p>