College of the Pacific

Asian Language Program (with Chinese and Japanese Concentrations)

This major allows students to develop their language skills in Chinese or Japanese while simultaneously gaining significant knowledge about the Asian context. Students share a strong interdisciplinary curriculum and choose to concentrate their language study in Chinese or Japanese. The non-language curriculum will be taught in English and includes film, literature, history, politics and religion. The major requires one semester of study abroad in China/Taiwan or Japan. The minimum number of units for the major is 34.

See Degree Program for additional information.

Asian Language Faculty

Zeljko (Jake) Cipris, 2000, Associate Professor (JAPANESE), M.A., Columbia University, 1987; M.Phil., 1987; Ph.D., 1994.
Webpage - Phone: 209.946.2918 - Office: WPC-Annex 249

Jie Lu, 1996, Professor and Chair (CHINESE), B.A., Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, Beijing, 1982; M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996.
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Jeeyoung Peck, 2008, Assistant Professor (CHINESE & JAPANESE), B.A., M.A., Hankook University of Foreign Studies, 2000, 2002; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2008.
Webpage - Phone: 209.946.2915 - Office: WPC-Annex 254