JAPA495-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Japanese Professional and Community Engagement

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

This is a professional and community engagement course designed specifically for students specializing in Japanese. The course provides an opportunity for the practical application of students’ Japanese skills and theoretical and research issues in an authentic Japanese business or community environment with faculty supervision, guidance, and evaluation.

The Japanese Professional and Community Engagement internship is an ideal
complement to your Japanese studies. Training in this area will help you to develop
key skills in engagement with the Japanese business community, professional
enterprise, cultural competence and innovation.

Through opportunities to work within a Japanese company, you will learn to provide
productive outcomes, develop strategies, enhance your Japanese communication
skills. In JAPA395 you will spend approximately 150 hours working on with a Japanese
business or community group, and conduct a number of assignments and projects for
that entity, as well as later complete academic assessments related to those projects.
At the end of the course you will be able to present and share your experiences with
the other students in Japanese.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of the course, students will be able to:
  • Use Japanese language appropriate for the Japanese community/business environment
    with confidence, cultural sensitivity and accuracy.
  • Explain key concepts of Japanese business/community strategy, employment/community
    practices and the work-life balance in Japanese with confidence and accuracy
  • Present the findings of an individual research project in Japanese with confidence and
    accuracy
  • Recognize, analyze and apply knowledge from their Japanese studies to the real-world
    Japanese business/community environment
  • Evaluate the structures and processes that organize practices and conditions in the
    Japanese community/business world.
  • Research, plan, present and implement a project related to the New Zealand-Japanese
    community/business environment
  • Apply theory critically to analyze the community/workplace environment vis-à-vis NZ
    practices and biculturalism in NZ
  • Apply specific disciplinary knowledge within the real-world Japanese business and
    community environment
  • Use self-reflective approaches typical of the Japanese business/community environment
    to devise and analyze problem-solving initiatives
  • Critically evaluate project outcomes in a manner suitable to the Japanese
    business/community environment and reflect on one's own role and performance within
    those communities.

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

      Engaged with the community

      Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

JAPA326 is the requisite course to complete a major in Japanese at BA level.

Restrictions

Course Coordinators

Alistair Swale and Susan Bouterey

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Initial scoping essay 10% Project scoping essay
Internship Reflective Diary 10% Internship Reflective Diary (in Japanese)
Oral Presentation 10% Oral presentation (in Japanese)
Written account 20% Written in Japanese
Internship 50% Internship

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,046.00

* 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.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 5

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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