SYLLABUS
OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _
00f-6 Technical Japanese A: Part I
- A Range of Current Science Topics in Plain and Simple Japanese -

Hideko KITAHAMA (International Student Center and Graduate School of Engineering)

Objective The International Student Center will offer a "Technical Japanese Program" to overseas students who expect to acquire a proficiency in and a knowledge of technical Japanese. ¡ÈTechnical Japanese A¡É course is, specially, intended for students who have studied basic science or engineering. The objective of this course is to equip students with the basic skills required for reading technical papers written in Japanese and for communicating with scientists and engineers in Japanese research and industrial settings.

The topic of this course will be "Current Science Topics in Japan" which mainly concern ¡ÈEnergy".

The course is designed for students who have taken two-year college level instruction in the Japanese language or equivalent. These lectures will be mostly conducted in plain and simple Japanese.

Textbook There is no assigned textbook. Various materials will be distributed in class.

Lecture Outline
"Technical Japanese A: Part I" is scheduled for 15 weeks (90 min. / week). The study components are:
(1) To acquire a basic knowledge of technical Japanese
(Practice for understanding basic technical words)
(2) To read and comprehend Japanese literature
(Understanding of current topics in science and technology)
(3)To understand the scientific and technological background of Japan through short-visit-program studies
(Training in communication with scientists and engineers in industry and research settings) Visits to research institutes and companies as field trips are planned. Through these visits, students can apply their acquired technical knowledge as well as Japanese skills in practical situations. In the classroom, each experience is reviewed by making oral presentations, holding discussions in Japanese and preparing reports using a Japanese word-processor.

Grading
Participation in class 20%
Assignments 30%
Final written examination 30%
Final oral examination 20%

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