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This is a professional and community engagement course designed specifically for students specializing in Japanese. The course provides an opportunity for the practical application of students’ Japanese skills and theoretical and research issues in an authentic Japanese business or community environment with faculty supervision, guidance, and evaluation.
The Japanese Professional and Community Engagement internship is an ideal complement to your Japanese studies. Training in this area will help you to develop key skills in engagement with the Japanese business community, professional enterprise, cultural competence and innovation.Through opportunities to work within a Japanese company, you will learn to provide productive outcomes, develop strategies, enhance your Japanese communication skills. In JAPA395 you will spend approximately 150 hours working on with a Japanese business or community group, and conduct a number of assignments and projects for that entity, as well as later complete academic assessments related to those projects.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:Use Japanese language appropriate for the Japanese community/business environment with confidence, cultural sensitivity and accuracyExplain key concepts of Japanese business/community strategy, employment/community practices and the work-life balance in Japanese with confidence and accuracyPresent the findings of an individual research project in Japanese with confidence and accuracyRecognise, analyse and apply knowledge from their Japanese studies to the real-world Japanese business/community environmentEvaluate the structures and processes that organise practices and conditions in the Japanese community/business worldResearch, plan, present and implement a project related to the New Zealand-Japanese community/business environmentApply theory critically to analyse the community/workplace environment vis-à-vis NZ practices and biculturalism in NZApply specific disciplinary knowledge within the real-world Japanese business and community environmentUse self-reflective approaches typical of the Japanese business/community environment to devise and analyse problem-solving initiativesCritically evaluate project outcomes in a manner suitable to the Japanese business/community environment and reflect on one's own role and performance within those communities.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
JAPA325 or equivalent
JAPA495
Susan Bouterey
Domestic fee $1,641.00
International fee $7,500.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
Maximum enrolment is 5
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .