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JAPA205-08W (C) Whole Year 2008
Japanese Language 2

44 points, 0.3667 EFTS
25 Feb 2008 - 16 Nov 2008 		↓Other occurrences

Description

This course aims to bring the student to an advanced intermediate standard in Japanese. At the end of this course students should be able to read and write approximately 750 kanji.

Learning Outcomes

This course builds upon JAPA 152 by completing the coverage of basic grammar in conversational Japanese and by moving on to the study of modern narrative and polemical prose.  Emphasis is placed upon reading and writing skills, and students improve their aural comprehension in the language laboratory.  There are four hours of lectures plus one language laboratory tutorial per week throughout the year.  Written exercises are assigned frequently.

Pre-requisites

JAPA105 or JAPA152 or equivalent. Direct entry without the prerequisite is through a placement test and approval of the Programme Director.

Restrictions

JAPA301

Course Coordinator

Yutaka Okura

Lecturer

Rachel Payne

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
In Term Tests (3) 27%
Oral/Aural Tests 15%
Assignments (8) 8%
Kanji Quizzes (5) 5%
Final Examination 45%


Interm Tests, 3 (27%), Oral tests, 2 and Aural Tests, 2, plus short tests (15%), Assignments, 8 (8%), Kanji Quizzes (5%), Final Examination (45%).

Textbooks

Required Texts

Miura, Akira , McGloin, Naomi Hanaoka; An integrated approach to intermediate Japanese = Chūkyū no Nihongo; 1st ed; Japan Times, 1994.

Recommended Reading

Henshall, Kenneth G; A guide to remembering Japanese characters; 1st ed; Tuttle Pub, 1998.

Sakade, Florence. et al; A guide to reading & writing Japanese : a comprehensive guide to the Japanese writing system; 3rd ed. ; Tuttle Pub, 2003.

Course links

Library portal

Fees

Domestic fee $1,490.00
International fee $6,161.00


For further information see School of Languages and Cultures.

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