To complete the minor, a student must complete 25 Modular Credits (MC) in coursework. This is to include:

• YLC2202: Intermediate Chinese 2 (or higher-level Chinese language course, modern or classical [YHU2212: Classical Chinese]); and
• 20 additional MC from the courses listed below, including at least one each from the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions.

Comparable courses taken through off-campus study or at the National University of Singapore (NUS) (up to a limit of 12 MC) and comparable Yale-NUS courses otherwise not on the current list may be approved at the discretion of the programme’s Advisor. Courses taken for a major cannot be double-counted toward the minor, and all courses for the minor taken at Yale-NUS or NUS must have a letter grade.

Humanities Division

• YLC3203: Advanced Chinese 1
• YLC3204: Advanced Chinese 2
• YLC3205: Advanced Readings in Chinese: Cinematic and Literary Texts
• YLC3206: Advanced Readings in Chinese: Modern Chinese Literature
• YHU2204: Modern Chinese Literature and Film
• YHU2212: Classical Chinese
• YHU2218: Chinese Migrations to Southeast Asia
• YHU 2287: Neo-Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism
• YHU3204: China and the West
• YHU3211: Tales of the Strange
• YHU3205: Ming Imperial Voyages
• YHU3224: Warring States China Intellectual and Political History
• YHU3230: The First Opium War, 1839-42
• YHU3336: Goodbye Mao?: China’s Postsocialist Transformations
• YHU4222: The Historiography of Sima Qian
• YHU4204: Rise of the West and the Great Divergence
• YHU4218: Chinese Poetry
• YHU4237: Chinese Prose

Social Sciences Division

• YSS3212: Chinese Politics
• YSS3217: Urbanisation in China
• YSS3226: Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia
• YSS3241: Chinese Political Philosophy: Confucianism & Its Rivals
• YSS3268: Anthropology of China
• YSS4205: Chinese Foreign Policy
• YID3207: China’s Energy and Environmental Sustainability