JAPA205-12W (C) Whole Year 2012

Japanese Language 2

45 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 2 September 2012

Description

This course aims to bring the student to an advanced intermediate standard in Japanese. At the end of this course students should be able to read and write approximately 750 kanji.

JAPA205 continues on from JAPA153. Students entering this course will have already learnt hiragana and katakana and approximately 400 kanji, and have a working knowledge of approximately 2,000 words and expressions in Japanese.

This course aims to bring the beginner level learners to an advanced intermediate standard in four skills (i.e. speaking, listening, reading and writing) in Japanese. Also, it aims at enhancing their understanding of Japan and its culture.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course students will have mastered an additional 350-400 kanji, different speech levels as well as basic written styles, and approximately 1,000 new words and expressions. Students should also now be able to converse on many different topics in Japanese at a more advanced level than basic everyday conversation.

Prerequisites

JAPA152 or JAPA153 or equivalent. Direct entry without the prerequisite is through a placement test and approval of the Programme Coordinator.

Course Coordinator

Masayoshi Ogino

Lecturer

Rachel Payne

Tutor

Maki Tokumoto

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Homework assignments (8) 10%
Quizzes (12) 6%
Interm Test 1 29 Mar 2012 8%
Interm Test 2 31 May 2012 8%
Interm Test 3 16 Aug 2012 8%
Oral and Aural short tests 20%
Final Examination 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Akira Miura and Naomi Hanaoka McGloin; An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese Workbook ; 2008; The Japan Times.

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.

Notes

This course is not intended for native speakers of Japanese.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,858.00

International fee $8,063.00

* 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 JAPA205 Occurrences

  • JAPA205-12W (C) Whole Year 2012