与中文专业一样，日语专业提供广泛的语言培训和跨学科课程。本专业允许对现代日语进行集中学习，并鼓励您熟悉古典日语和古典汉语（或日本在日本最常见的古典汉语形式“看文”）。请访问我们的日语课程网站，以获取有关课程和要求的更多详细信息。除语言培训外，该专业的重点是人文学科，将其置于广泛的社会和历史背景下。有关与此专业相关的课程，请参阅目录。与亚洲研究专业相比，日语专业在地理和文化上更具针对性，并且需要日语方面的高级语言培训。学生应检查不同的专业，以确定最适合其目标的专业。
As a student in the Japanese program, youll undertake extensive language training and interdisciplinary coursework related to Japan. Youll take courses that are expansive in scope both temporally and geographically, encompassing the premodern, modern, and contemporary periods. Youll study Japan and its people, history, literature, and culture in their domestic and transnational contexts, drawing on diverse frameworks from the humanities and social sciences. The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies offers the essential tools to delve deeply into these complex cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. We teach the languages and scripts of East Asia. We offer our students ways to think about the experience of modernity, colonialism, nationalism, and state formation, and how they relate to traditional cultures. We train our students in techniques to discover old and new literatures and arts as well as introducing them to films, media, and popular culture. We discuss the religious traditions (including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism) and intellectual discourses (including political thought and the sciences) that have shaped visions of the world and everyday life in East Asia for centuries, some have been rejected during modernization, but some are still alive and part of East Asian cultures.