JAPAN 2Elementary Modern Japanese
Japanese · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Japanese 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 Japanese placement test.
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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.
JAPAN 2
- JAPAN 1Elementary Modern Japanese
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
JAPAN 2
- JAPAN 3Elementary Modern Japanese
- JAPAN 4Intermediate Modern Japanese
- JAPAN CM123Structure of Japanese
- LING M176BStructure of Japanese
- JAPAN C223Structure of Japanese
- JAPAN 10Intermediate Modern Japanese: Intensive
- JAPAN 124Language and Culture of Ryukyu/Okinawa
- LING M116Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
- JAPAN M120Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
- JAPAN CM122Japanese Phonology and Morphology
- JAPAN 224ASeminar: Selected Topics in Japanese Discourse Linguistics
- JAPAN 224BSeminar: Selected Topics in Japanese Discourse Linguistics
- LING M176AJapanese Phonology and Morphology
- JAPAN C222Japanese Phonology and Morphology
1 course lists this as a requisite. Showing 21 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.