Japanese Studies offers an introduction to the main elements of the modern Japanese language with opportunities to study the history, culture, economy, and geography of Japan. Japanese is known to be one of the most unique and complex languages in the world — with a high degree of inflections, three sets of scripts in its writing system, etc.

To increase Japanese language abilities required for college education, and to deepen understanding of contemporary Japanese society and culture. In first semester classes, social problems will be introduced by the instructor; students will take turns presenting these problems and discussing them together. In the second semester, students will consider problems of contemporary Japanese society in comparison with the present situation of their own home country.

We have Japanese High school department, also Design department on campus, you can make friends with Japanese students in our college in everyday life. The application period for next intake, April 2020 program is from September 1st to October 30.

At the Lyrebird language centre, you are treated and valued as an individual. Learning a language can be frustrating but rest assured, when you do master it, the reward is amazing.

At Grinnell, Chinese is an interdisciplinary major that explores the complex interaction between literary, philosophical, aesthetic, religious, political, and other important spheres of human life in China. Emphasis is placed not only on the diversity and uniqueness of Chinese civilization but also on its contributions to humanity and its heuristic values to the understanding of Western cultural traditions.