JAPA326-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Advancing Japanese B

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 October 2017

Description

This course builds upon JAPA 325. Teaching will focus on the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. By the end of the course students will have acquired advanced Japanese language ability and be familiar with complex socio-cultural issues in modern Japan. As well as text-based learning, there will be a focus on task and project-based learning, which will equip students better to apply their language abilities in the workforce or in postgraduate-level learning.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will acquire advanced skills in all four areas of the language (reading, writing, speaking and listening). By the end of the course students should:
  • have mastered an additional 200 – 250 kanji;
  • have mastered a range of speech levels and written styles;
  • have mastered approximately 500 new words and expressions;  
  • be able to converse on many different topics in Japanese at a level more advanced than everyday conversation;
  • have acquired considerable learner autonomy and reflective skills;
  • have acquired advanced skills and competencies readily transferrable to a variety of disciplines or postgraduate study;
  • have advanced intercultural awareness and sensitivity;
  • be work ready.

    (Image by Masayoshi Ogino.)

Prerequisites

JAPA325 or JAPA319 or equivalent or direct entry through a placement test.

Restrictions

JAPA305, JAPA315, JAPA319

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Masayoshi Ogino

Lecturer

Susan Bouterey

Tutor

Maki Tokumoto

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Online quizzes & weekly mini written tests 10%
Homework & assignment tasks 15%
Interactive project work 8%
Participation in special activities 7%
Interaction assessments 15% Aural and oral communication
Interm test 15%
Final exam 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Miura, Akira , McGloin, Naomi Hanaoka; An integrated approach to intermediate Japanese = Chūkyū no Nihongo ; Rev. ed. =; Japan Times, 2008.

Course links

Library portal
LEARN The Course Outline is available for enrolled students on LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,464.00

International fee $5,950.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All JAPA326 Occurrences

  • JAPA326-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017