CHIN 2Elementary Modern Chinese
Chinese · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
First-year Chinese. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Chinese to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 1.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 1 with grade of C or better or Chinese placement test.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHIN 2
- CHIN 1Elementary Modern Chinese
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CHIN 2
- CHIN 3Elementary Modern Chinese
1 course lists this as a requisite. Showing 13 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.