08s-J4 JAPANESE: JA500

Yoko MIMAKI and Momoyo Shimazu (International Student Center)

Objective
  This course is designed for post-advanced students to develop research-oriented language skills in all four areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing. The overall content of JA500 is a combination of JG500, JW500 and JC500. Students enrolled in the OUSSEP program who wish to take JA500 are required to take all these three classes and not allowed to take each class separately.

JG500
  Momoyo Shimazu (International Student Center)

Objective
  This course is designed for post-advanced students to develop advanced reading skills in Japanese. It also aims at building knowledge of advanced structures and grammatical items typically used in authentic Japanese materials.

Course Description
  Students are exposed to authentic reading materials that deal with special interests among educated native speakers of Japanese, and in so doing build knowledge of advanced structures and grammatical item typically used in that kind of materials. Students are also given opportunities to read extensively from newspapers, magazines and journals, and are expected to write summaries of the articles in order to develop advanced functional reading skills in Japanese.

Textbooks
  Materials will be provided in the classes.

Lecture Guideline and Attendance Policy
  Lectures will be given once a week, 90 minutes each, for 15 weeks. Regular attendance to all classes is required. Being absent for one third or more of the classes will be considered as withdrawal from the course.

Grading
  Class attendance, participation and performance 30%
  Quiz, assignment, essay and presentation 20%
  Final written Exam. 30%
  Final oral exam. 20%
*This formula is not set in stone, and we will make allowances for other factors, such as overall improvement over the term of the course.

JW500
  Yoko MIMAKI (International Student Center)

Objective
  This course is designed for post-advanced students to develop advanced writing skills in Japanese. It also aims at developing fluency in using advanced structures and grammatical items typically used in authentic Japanese materials.

Course Description
  Each week students are required to write an essay on a selected topic, expressing their opinion about it and occasionally conducting and summarizing some survey research. The selection of the topics is also intended to deepen students’ understanding of the issues in current Japanese society and global issues.

Textbooks
  Materials will be provided in the classes.

Lecture Guideline and Attendance Policy
  Lectures will be given once a week, 90 minutes each, for 15 weeks. Regular attendance to all classes is required. Being absent for one third or more of the classes will be considered as withdrawal from the course.

Grading
  Class attendance, participation and performance 30%
  Quiz, assignment 40%
  Final essay 30%
*This formula is not set in stone, and we will make allowances for other factors, such as overall improvement over the term of the course.

JC500
  Yoko MIMAKI (International Student Center)

Objective
  This course is designed for post-advanced students to develop advanced speaking skills in Japanese. It also aims at developing fluency in presenting opinions and understanding normally spoken Japanese used by educated native speakers.

Course Description
  Each week topic of students’ interest are selected and students are required to present opinion and discuss the topic in moderate length and depth. Voluntary Japanese visitors are sometimes invited to join the discussion. In so doing students will also deepen their understanding of the issues in current Japanese society and global issues.

Textbooks
  Materials will be provided in the classes.

Lecture Guideline and Attendance Policy
  Lectures will be given once a week, 90 minutes each, for 15 weeks. Regular attendance to all classes is required. Being absent for one third or more of the classes will be considered as withdrawal from the course.

Grading
  Class attendance, participation and performance 30%
  Quiz, assignment, essay and presentation 40%
  Final oral exam. 30%
*This formula is not set in stone, and we will make allowances for other factors, such as overall improvement over the term of the course.