Japanese

This course consists of two parts: 1) analysis of compositional methods and musical languages of historical masterpieces, and 2) practical training in harmony and counterpoint. At the end of the course, students are encouraged to compose a musical piece in any style using any compositional technique. Prerequisites: completion of the Basic Study of Music II or equivalent knowledge and skills.  

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 course is aimed at those who know the meaning, writing, and reading of basic kanji idioms.  It focuses on what has been learned so far to increase one’s knowledge of kanji – for example, students will learn how to convert simple words they already know into Kanji and how to use Kanji vocabulary that has similar meanings.  Furthermore, the course provides activities to write essays using kanji and to read and understand the content. 

Note: “Intermediate” Japanese language levels at the host university are comparable to UC upper-division courses.

This course provides an overview of the history of Japanese literature from ancient (上代) to pre-modern times. The goal of this class is to understand traditional Japanese literature deeply by examining certain representative works from each period, genre by genre. Students will learn about the background and analyze the content of each work, i.e. Heian Court literature, medieval military literature, pre-modern Chonin (町人) literature, to gain a broad understanding of traditional Japanese society. 

This course covers processing principles of data types other than text format that are used to create multimedia contents like three dimensional solid body with various tools for the multimedia. 

The course covers the following topics:

• 3DCG
• Stereoscopic 3D
• 360degree video
• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality

This course prepares students to participate in university lectures taught in Japanese. By studying various topics, students will acquire the Japanese language proficiency (listening, reading, discussion, and writing) required for university lectures and autonomous learning skills to improve these skills further. The target level is CEFR B2.2. Prerequisite: “J6: Japanese” or equivalent. Three class hours/week. 

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

• Listen and comprehend long conversations, lectures, discussions, and media messages if an argument's structure and point are clear.
• Understand lengthy and abstract text in their familiar field, provided they can use a dictionary occasionally.
• Conduct discussion, presentation, etc., neither making mistakes that lead to misunderstanding nor causing strain or inconvenience to the listener.

This course is designed for students learning Japanese for the first time. The course aims to enhance basic listening and speaking skills as well as communicate with basic vocabulary and sentence structure. The course design is based on sentence structures and grammatical patterns learned in the class “Essential Japanese 1M-1 & 1M-2." It is recommended to take “Essential Japanese 1M-1 & 1M-2” together with this course.

Designed for upper beginners to improve oral communication skills, the course enables students to converse about familiar topics using upper basic Japanese grammar and vocabulary. 

The course covers: introducing oneself and family; sharing hobbies and favorite things; introducing favorite shops and restaurants; discussing travel preparations; explaining one’s current university life; discussing childhood experiences; expressing worries; giving advice based one experiences, and conveying one’s hopes and intentions.  

This advanced Japanese course is designed to further develop oral communication skills placing a special focus on honorific expressions. A 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 goal of the class is to widen perspectives and deepen knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.