Chinese Language Faculty
Shizhe Huang, Chinese Language Program Director
Office: 123 Founders Hall, Haverford College
email: shuang@haverford.eduu
phone: 610-896-1262
Tz’u Chiang, Lecturer
Office: Thomas Hall 120, Bryn Mawr College
email: tchiang@brynmawr.edu
phone: 610-526-6560
Changchun Zhang, Instructor
Japanese Language
The Japanese Program offers four years of instruction in modern Japanese. First-year Japanese (JNSE001-002), taught at Haverford, has two master sections and three drill sections per week. Students must attend both. While the hours of the Tuesday-Thursday master section are set, students have a choice between two Monday-Wednesday-Friday section times. They should register accordingly. Second and Third-year Japanese (JNSE003-004 and JNSEH101-102) meet at Haverford. New students wishing to enter the program at levels other than first-year will be placed according to the results of a placement test. Please contact Yoko Koike (ykoike@haverford.edu) if you have any questions.
Students at all levels of instruction are afforded the opportunity to use their Japanese outside of the classroom through an active language-exchange program with the local community of visitors from Japan.
Japanese Language Faculty
Hank Glassman, Assistant Professor
Office: 125 Founders Hall, Haverford College
email: hglassma@haverford.edu
phone: 610-896-1265
Yoko Koike, Senior Lecturer (on leave Semester I)
Acting Director of Japanese Program
Office: 126 Founders Hall, Haverford College
email: ykoike@haverford.edu
phone: 610-642-7401
Yukino Tanaka, Instructor
Office: 124 Founders Hall, Haverford College
email: ytanaka@haverford.edu
phone: 610-896-1262
Hai Lin Zhou , Visiting Instructor
Placement Tests
Placement tests for first-time students at all levels are conducted in the first week of the fall semester. To qualify for third-year language courses students need to have a 3.0 average in second-year language study or take a placement test in the beginning of the third-year course. In the event that students do not score 3.0 or above at the end of the second-year language study, they must consult with the director of the respective language program and work out a summer study plan that may include, but is not limited to, taking summer courses or studying on their own under supervision.
Study Abroad
The East Asian Studies Department strongly recommends study abroad to maximize language proficiency and cultural familiarity. Because study abroad provides an unparalleled opportunity to study a culture from the inside, students spending a semester or year in China, Japan, or Korea will be required to prepare an essay of 10 pages on significant issues confronting their host country, based on information from local newspapers or magazines, television, or personal interviews. No departmental credit will be granted for study abroad without satisfactory completion of this assignment, whose details should be worked out with the student's adviser.
Formal approval is required by the study abroad adviser prior to the student's travel. Without this approval, credit for courses taken abroad may not be accepted by the East Asian studies program.
If studying abroad is not practical, students may consider attending certain intensive summer schools approved by the East Asian studies program. These plans must be worked out in concert with the program's study abroad adviser and the student's dean.
Information about study abroad programs can be found at http://www.brynmawr.edu/deans/study_abroad.shtml.
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