Japanese

This advanced Japanese course is designed to develop overall language skills with emphasis placed on literary and newspaper readings. Students learn advanced kanji characters and their compounds, grammar patterns, and vocabulary. The goal of the course is to be able to read technical articles, essays and newspaper articles, and to communicate with Japanese people in real situations by improving listening and speaking ability. 

This basic Japanese course is designed to improve writing skills. A different theme concerning Japanese culture and society is chosen for each course and students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The overall goal of the class is for students to widen their perspectives and deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.  

This Japanese course is designed to improve listening skills. A different theme concerning Japanese culture and society is chosen for each course and students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The overall goal of the class is for students to widen their perspectives and deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.  

This course prepares students to participate in university lectures taught in Japanese. Students will learn how to write academic reports in Japanese and acquire the basics of academic writing required in university courses through report-writing activities on their chosen topics. They also learn how to make formal presentations. The target level is CEFR B2.2. Prerequisite: “J6:Japanese” or equivalent. Two class hours/week. 

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Create coherent, cohesive, and clear texts when writing essays and reports.
• Acquire basics of academic writing skills.
• Acquire basics of academic presentation skills.

The purpose of this course is to give students the ability to communicate in Japanese at an advanced level. The course is designed for students who have completed at least three to four semesters of formal training (no less than 300 hours) at the college level. Students are expected to possess the ability to read and write simple essays and communicate smoothly in everyday situations. Students improve their comprehensive Japanese language skills through discussion with peer students and presentations about Japanese culture and society.  To develop reading and listening comprehension skills, students will read and listen to texts about Japanese culture and society. In addition, students will learn how to communicate and express their opinion in Japanese through presentation, discussion, and writing practices.

Programs written in programming languages ​​such as C or Java are translated into assembly language or machine language programs by a special software called a compiler. This course explains the basic concepts and formalization of programming languages, explaining how the programs we usually write are executed inside a computer and how the compiler is configured for that purpose. Compilers can generally be divided into two parts: a front end and a back end. This course focuses on the front end, which comprises of three parts: lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, and semantic analysis.  

This course instructs on Japanese expressions (vocabulary, grammar, conversation) that are useful in university life. It equips students to express what they to say in basic Japanese; to learn about Japanese language culture and values, and to expand their world through learning Japanese language.  

This class offers blended learning which combines two learning methods: a self-directed learning (SDL) session in which students are required to learn individually using online materials (equivalent to one 100 min period/ week), and a real time session (Zoom) in a classroom with other students (one 100-min period/ week).  

Operating systems (OSes) such as Linux and Windows abstract bare-metal hardware and provide a more manageable virtual computer. The history of OS is old, and the modern, commercial OS consists of many fundamental concepts and implementation technologies. This course aims to educate on the basic concepts and implementation technologies of conventional OSes and deepen an understanding of their internal structure, particularly the internal structure of Linux and Windows. If time permits, cutting-edge operating systems and techniques will also be introduced. Along with the constant change in computer usage, the functions required in the OS constantly change, thus the study of OS provides hot research topics. 

This basic Japanese course examines Japanese culture and society while placing a special focus on learning kanji. Students are split into groups and discuss the meaning, origin, and usage of kanji compounds they encounter in everyday life. Upon completion of the course, students not only expand their kanji vocabulary, but also deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.