Undergraduate - UnitATS2166 - Japanese proficient 2 (Kanazawa)

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Japanese Studies
Offered	Not offered in 2013
Coordinator(s)	Dr Hiroko Hashimoto

Notes

Previously coded JPL2069

Synopsis

A special fee-paying, in-country Japanese language program providing home-stay, a variety of cultural activities, visits to various institutions and number of other excursions as well as classroom-based study.
This is the second part of an intermediate sequence which covers both spoken language and contemporary written language. Language acquisition through active interaction in and out of the classroom is encouraged. This unit focuses on social and cultural issues from a global view point. The content is integrated around a major project which involves interviewing a Japanese native speaker, reading articles in the newspaper and internet sites and writing a report.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should:

be able to maintain relationships with Japanese people
be able to understand and use Japanese grammar at advanced-intermediate level
be able to obtain some knowledge about issues in Japanese society and culture through reading, speaking and writing about the topic
be able to read and understand extracts from Japanese texts of various genres written for a Japanese audience
have developed listening and speaking skills about social issues
be able to obtain information in Japanese from newspaper articles and other written materials including the internet
have further developed and be able to display skills to use a Japanese word processor
be able to recognize the kanji introduced at previous levels, and 150 newly introduced characters
have developed skills that will enable continued study of Japanese outside the classroom.