Japanese

This course is designed for international students who have passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 level. It focuses on developing the Japanese language skills necessary for university life through a variety of practice activities, such as speeches, presentations, discussions, and role-playing.

Eligibility: B1 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (N2 in the JLPT). Ability to read about 750 basic kanji is recommended (equivalent to having completed K300).

By the end of this course, students are expected to:
・Have gained guidance for living a meaningful study abroad life by discussing career development.
・Have improved their Japanese expression skills and build interpersonal relationships.
・Have developed problem-solving skills.

This course is for Upper-intermediate Japanese students to obtain fundamental Japanese listening skills needed for attending university classes and daily life. 

Eligibility: B1 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (N2 in the JLPT).
By the end of the course, students are expected to:
- understand lectures and conversations that are complex in terms of both content and language.
- take more effective notes.
- summarize the heard information and discuss the topics with classmates.

This course is intended for beginning students to acquire daily survival level of Japanese comprehension and speaking skills. The course does not cover hiragana or katakana. 

Eligibility: Students who have studied no Japanese. 

The objectives of this course are as follows: A1 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education.

• Understand and correctly use basic greetings and set phrases.
• Speak about things around oneself and interact with others using combinations of simple phrases. 
• Understand simple informative texts and brief passages about familiar topics.

This advanced Japanese course is designed to improve communication skills needed on a business setting. A theme concerning Japanese culture and society is chosen in context of "business" and students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The course aims to widen student perspectives and deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society, while acquiring skills needed in a Japanese business setting. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections. 

This course focuses on translating short English texts (up to two pages) from various genres into Japanese. It teaches the basic skills necessary to begin translating texts from English to Japanese, further examining British and American culture, society, and literature. Translation consists in reproducing the reception language to the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style; translation should preserve somewhat the beauty of style and the flowing cadences of the original. This course aims for the class to create an accurate and reliable Japanese translation on the basis of the translation rules they learn each week. 

This advanced Japanese course is designed to improve communication skills needed on a business setting. A theme concerning Japanese culture and society is chosen in context of "business" and students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The course aims to widen student perspectives and deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society, while acquiring skills needed in a Japanese business setting. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections. 

The course aims at instructing Japanese daily expression and fundamental grammar. Meanwhile, teachers in this class will instruct students in the basic knowledge of Japanese from a perspective of the pragmatic linguistics and the cognitive linguistics as well as the application of Japanese. The teaching approach to this course would combine instructions with related practice. At the same time, the language lab facilities would be utilized to continuously train students in Japanese pronunciation and tone further. Students are provided in this class with basic grammar and sentences as well as daily vocabularies ranging from 2000 to 2500 words. They also may be equipped with abilities to listen, speak, read, write and translate which will prepare them for Japanese language, culture and literature further. After that, students can reach at an intermediate level of Japanese.

This course is designed for students with no or little previous contact with the Japanese language. It provides a balanced grounding in grammar, vocabulary and oral/written expressions.

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to (1) : Express thoughts on very familiar topics with simple Japanese; (2) Turn their Japanese skills into actual communication for immediate needs; (3) Read and write Japanese words or simple sentences, and (4) Deepen knowledge of Japanese culture.

This course is mainly aimed at students who have never studied Japanese, or who have studied it only a little, and who will be staying in Japan for about one semester (six months). The aim is to learn kana, basic grammar, and vocabulary, focusing on conversation situations for daily life in Japan, and to develop comprehensive Japanese language skills in the four skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing.

Students acquire listening skills necessary to university life through viewing lectures and videos on a variety of topics. Students will learn to take notes/memos and ask the instructor questions. 

Eligibility: B2 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (approx. N1 in the JLPT). 

Learning Objectives 

• Understand lectures and conversations that are fairly complex in terms of both content and language. 
• Synthesize audio and written/visual information, and take notes recording important information.
• Explain heard information in their own words using materials and notes as reference.