Japanese

Building upon the basis of Japanese 5, this course enhances skills and strategies to discuss complex topics such as social, cultural, and historical issues based on authentic materials. Students learn how to summarize long and complex texts, how to structure essays and skills to understand media materials. Students attain a good all-round proficiency in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and can communicate with others in Japanese while handling more elaborate situations.

This course examines various issues facing sports in modern society, mainly from the perspective of sports sociology. What kind of social background are the sports we enjoy based on? Also, sports are generally considered to be "good," however, students learn that sports also have disadvantages. While analyzing various problems that sports in modern society is facing, students are expected to acquire the basic ideas of sports sociology.

In addition to the 160 basic kanji characters taught in K150, students will learn to read, write and type 160 new characters. They will become familiar with various methods of kanji learning and expand their vocabulary of words that contain kanji.
Eligibility: Students who have learned about 160 kanji characters and are at least A1 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (N5 in the JLPT).
Learning Objectives:
・Understand the meanings and readings of 320 kanji and words using those kanji.
・Write 320 kanji vocabulary words with the help of example models.
・Type short sentences containing the 320 kanji on a smartphone or PC.

In recent years, various concepts such as ESG, SDGs, and CSV have been published to realize a sustainable society and economy. These concepts have become an indispensable theme for corporate management. For example, governments are considering requiring companies to disclose sustainability information. This course explains the theory on sustainability and its application to practice for the purpose of understanding sustainability and the latest management trends. 

This course provides the opportunity to examine the cultural aspects of human movement, as well as how to express human emotion through movement. The class includes activities such as rhythm and dance, social dance, Nihon-minzoku buyo ('Japanese folk dance'), and creative Wadaiko (Japanese style drumming). 

This Japanese course chooses a different theme concerning Japanese culture and society to discuss each week. Students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The 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 designed for students at the advanced level. Based on reading assignments related to Japanese society and culture, students learn various ways to discuss and present their opinions. The course is offered in Spring and Fall semesters with different course content. 

This is a sequential course of FILM & MEDIA STUDIES 10A. 

Through movies and other visual materials, this course examines important issues in modern society from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Each lecture features guest speakers who work in the field of making films, videos, and broadcasting. The course reviews specific production methods and a future vision of movies in class discussions. 

This course explains that language has a role other than communication. It aims to understand that human language has both diversity and universality. The course discovers areas related to linguistics using comprehensible examples.

This course aims to help students learn Japanese for academic purposes through various familiar topics about society and culture. The target level is CEFR B1.1.

The course provides opportunities to complete various tasks using Japanese, enabling students to acquire the language skills necessary to perform the tasks and also increase their knowledge of Japanese vocabulary, grammar patterns, expressions and kanji. The final requirement of the course is a project presentation, where students present the results of their research on a particular topic. This course aims to enhance students’ Japanese proficiency and their ability to comprehend and engage deeply with the content. 

This course includes an elective component "Expand your World in Japanese."