Japanese

This advanced Japanese course develops Japanese skills in an academic setting. Students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The goal of the class is to help students to acquire academic language skills required in a variety of educational settings. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.  

This course is for students who have studied half of the basic composition course. It will helps develop listening and speaking skills in preparation for basic level conversations. This course is based on the composition and composition patterns studied in the course, ESSENTIAL JAPANESE 4M. It is recommended that this course is taken together with ESSENTIAL JAPANESE 4M.

Textbook: "University Japanese: Beginner's Tomodachi Vol. 2" edited by the Japanese Language Education Center for International Students, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 

Japan is one of the world's leading film production powerhouses with countless films produced from the silent era to the present, from artistic to entertainment pieces. This course looks at the history of Japanese films and discusses the unique appeal and problems of Japanese films. 

This course places emphasis on listening and speaking proficiencies. Learners who have reached the CEFR B2.2 level will further develop their academic skills through discussions and presentations. Prerequisite “J7-A: Japanese” and "J7-B: Japanese" or equivalent. Three class hours/week. 

By the end of this course, students will be able to
1. complete tasks in Japanese, by utilizing appropriate expressions in various contexts
2. hold logical and constructive discussions
3. acquire skills necessary for presentations in Japanese.
4. develop knowledge on vocabulary and expressions.

This course is designed for students who have experience studying Japanese at the intermediate level. Aiming to facilitate a mastery of reading and writing skills, the course covers writing of intermediate kanji; reading sentences, and writing one's own compositions.

This course aims to help students learn spoken and written Japanese for academic purposes through a variety of social subjects or quasi-professional topics. The target level is CEFR B2.1. Prerequisite:“J5: Japanese” or equivalent. Ten class hours/week. 

By the end of the course, students will be able to:
understand the main ideas, express one’s ideas, or interact with others on a variety of social subjects or quasi-professional topics, if the argument is not delivered in a complex structure and the development of the argument is clear, and speak and write appropriately according to the situation.

This course improves lower advanced level listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It introduces the 50 most important sentence patterns for advanced level students and reviews the important sentence patterns from the intermediate level. Students acquire a command of practical Japanese necessary for daily communication and for study and research in a Japanese university. They master 8000 basic words and 1500 basic kanji.