Japanese Language and Literature Master Program (Japanese)

About the program

This Program aims to cultivate international talents with high research ability, who have a systematic knowledge of linguistics, foreign literature, foreign language teaching theory, society and culture, and the theory and practice of Sino-Japanese translation, and who are trained to have the professional skills and research methods of Japanese Language and Literature.

The program focuses on Japanese Linguistics, and Comparative Chinese and Japanese Culture, from which students can make a choice. Students can also take advantage of the resources for their thesis writing provided by the Center for Japanese Culture and Economy Studies and the Institute of Corpus and Interdisciplinary Studies.

The Japanese Department has 16 full-time faculty members, including 4 professors and 4 associate professors, and 7 of them hold Ph.D. degrees. The teachers are highly internationalized and all of them have the overseas experiences of studying for degrees or working as visiting scholars in Japan.

Main Courses

Research Methods and Thesis Writing, Theoretical Schools of Japanese Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics between Chinese and Japanese, Japanese Lexicology, Japanese Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics, Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Culture, Selected Readings from Japanese Classics, History of Japanese Culture, History of Chinese-Japanese Translation, Japanese Folklore Studies, Japanese Poetry Studies, Second Language Acquisition: Theory and Practice.