Japanese

<Level VII>
Target Students: Those who have completed and mastered intermediate level studies.
Course Goals: To master the 200 important intermediate sentence patterns and develop understanding and command of the 100 important advanced sentence patterns for further improvement of the four skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. To master the 10,000 basic words and 2,000 basic Chinese characters.

<Oral Expression B>
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for dialogues such as discussion or debates.
Contents: Conducting discussions and debates on various themes.

This course teaches basketball as a team sport, providing an overview of the communication skills, teamwork, leadership, followership, self-understanding, understanding others, and awareness of one's own body and its movements to play a successful game. Furthermore, this course aims at learning the enjoyment of the sports culture of basketball itself.

This course examines "Eugenics," using the Holocaust under the Nazi regime as a reference. The course traces the history of the end of the 19th century in England, when eugenics was born as an academic discipline, and then examines the history and development of the eugenics movement in the United States. In addition, the course also covers unique eugenics philosophy in Japan and current problems in reproductive medicine.

This Japanese language course is designed for students who have completed Japanese III at ICU and have mastered basic skills. It is comparable to third and beginning fourth year at UC. The course continues the development of skills in listening, reading, and writing. By the end of the course, students should be able to communicate in intermediate Japanese incorporating fundamental knowledge of Japanese culture.

Japanese art has not been cultivated purely within the country of Japan. As a member of the East Asian cultural sphere, Japan has nurtured art through rich exchanges with China and South Korea from ancient times and the Middle Ages to the early modern period. In modern times, we cannot help but think about the influence of Europe and the United States. What art has Japan selected from the foreign cultures of China, South Korea, and the West, and how has Japan accepted these and transformed them to create its own art? The goal is to understand this while looking at the slides of paintings and designs. Each week the class will write impressions (interpretation, description, evaluation) after viewing artwork.

This course is designed for students at the advanced levels to acquire comprehensive Japanese language proficiency. The purpose of the course is to increase student knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and kanji and to improve their reading and writing ability through close-reading of textbooks. In addition, students will develop speech techniques necessary to participate in discussions and to explain content that they have understood.

<Level V>
Target Students: Those who have partially completed intermediate level studies.
Course Goals: To develop understanding and command of the 200 important intermediate sentence patterns for further improvement of the four skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. To master the 6,000 basic words and 1,000 to 1,200 basic Chinese characters.

<Written Expression A>
Goal: To be able to write well-formed passages of approximately 800 words in length.
Contents: Writing letters and simple essays on topics familiar to students.

This course introduces the sounds, grammar, vocabulary, genetic affiliation, and types of Japanese language, terms and concepts often used in Japanese linguistics.  It covers the basic information on Japanese language needed for students interested in teaching it as a second/foreign language or a native language. Japanese is also contrasted with other languages such as Korean, Chinese and English.

This course is for students with at least one year of prior study of Japanese. The goal of this course is for students to acquire well-balanced basic proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and to develop an understanding and command of basic grammar and its usage. Students practice listening comprehension and pronunciation using videotapes and CDs. They learn conversational expressions and phrases necessary in daily life, fundamentals of written expression, and how to read and write short passages on topics familiar to them using previously learned sentence patterns and vocabulary. By the end of term, students master 1500 basic words and 300 basic kanji. 

This course gives an introduction to data-driven research in political science and sociology. The examples will include data from Twitter, Amazon, Wikipedia, Facebook and parliamentary records. Data from many countries including Japan, Ukraine, and Nigeria, as well as international institutions and websites, will be discussed. The analytical techniques include text analysis (sentiment analysis and topic modeling), network analysis, descriptive statistics and visualization, and statistical techniques such as regression analysis.