JAPAN 3Elementary 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 2.
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 2 with grade of C or better or Japanese placement test.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
JAPAN 3
- JAPAN 4Intermediate Modern Japanese
- JAPAN 5Intermediate Modern Japanese
- JAPAN CM123Structure of Japanese
- LING M176BStructure of Japanese
- JAPAN C223Structure of Japanese
- JAPAN 10Intermediate Modern Japanese: Intensive
- JAPAN 100AAdvanced Modern Japanese
- JAPAN 100RThird-Year Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese
- JAPAN 101AFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Reading
- JAPAN 101BFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Reading
- JAPAN 101CFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Reading
- JAPAN 101SFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Reading—Intensive
- JAPAN 103AFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Speaking I
- JAPAN 103BFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Speaking II
- JAPAN 103CFourth-Year Japanese: Advanced Speaking III
- JAPAN 104Business Japanese
- 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
7 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 33 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.