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May 11, 2026
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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
World Languages and Cultures, Japanese Concentration, B.A.
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World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
615-898-5357
Priya Ananth, program coordinator
Priya.Ananth@mtsu.edu
A degree from from the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers preparation for a very wide range of careers. Many corporate and non-profit employers consider intercultural team-building skills and proficiency in world languages centrally important critical job skills.
A major in World Languages and Cultures with a Japanese concentration consists of 40 semester hours (excluding 1010) and must include at least 20 hours of upper-division work. Before beginning the junior year, the student should file a degree plan with his or her advisor.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) | 41 hours | | Major Requirements | 40 hours* | | Minor | 15-18 hours | | Electives | 21-30 hours | | TOTAL | 120 hours | *This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If courses for this program are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of electives may increase. True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category. The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements: - FL 1000 (CCE)
- 3 credit hours from JAPN 1010, 1020, 2010, or 2020 (NWC)
Major Requirements (40 hours)
Curriculum: World Languages and Cultures, Japanese
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