OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _

04f-06
CURRENT SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TOPICS IN JAPANESE
-TECHNICAL JAPANESE B: Part I-

Kenichi NISHIMURA (International Student Center)

Objective
  This course is designed to provide an opportunity for students to acquire sufficient Japanese language proficiency in the field of social sciences. The objective of this course is to equip students with the basic skills required for reading newspaper articles and technical reports written in Japanese.
  The topic of this course is "Recent Social and Cultural Issues in Japan".
  This course is for students who have previously taken Japanese courses and are more or less in the intermediate level due to the fact that the medium of instruction as well as the reading materials are all in Japanese.

Textbook
No particular textbook will be assigned to the class. Reading materials will be provided.

Lecture Outline
  This course is scheduled for 15 weeks. Students will be provided with reading materials in advance.
Aside from classroom meetings students will be required to attend class trips to places of significant connection to the course.
At the end of the semester students will take a final examination and are expected to make an oral presentation as a partial requirement of the course.

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

Note
This course corresponds to "Technical Japanese B: Part I -A Variety of Current Social and Cultural Topics in Plain and Simple Japanese-" (the former course) though its course title is changed this year.