CHIN 3AElementary Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners
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 2A.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 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 2A 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.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CHIN 3A
- CHIN 4AIntermediate Modern Chinese for Advanced Students
- CHIN 5AIntermediate Modern Chinese for Advanced Students
- CHIN 10Intermediate Modern Chinese: Intensive
- CHIN 100AAdvanced Modern Chinese
- CHIN 100IAdvanced Modern Chinese: Intensive
- CHIN 101AAdvanced Readings in Modern Chinese
- CHIN 108FLSpecial Studies: Readings in Chinese
- CHIN 135Chinese-Language Film and Culture
- CHIN 102AAdvanced Chinese for International Business
- CHIN 102BAdvanced Chinese for International Business
2 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 14 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.