Undergraduate - UnitATS3978 - Japanese Communication in Professional Settings

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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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 2014
Coordinator(s)	Jeremy Breaden

Synopsis

This unit provides advanced students of the Japanese language with theoretical and practical knowledge of the socio-cultural and communicative challenges in workplaces where the Japanese language is used, and the strategies employed to tackle those challenges. The unit addresses a variety of real-life professional settings and roles, including working in a Japanese organisation, using Japanese with clients and collaborators, and functioning as a linguistic and cultural intermediary. Students will extend their existing language skills in various modes of face-to-face and electronic communication, and engage with key ideas regarding organisations and interpersonal relationships in and around Japan.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Comprehend a variety of spoken and written texts used routinely in Japanese-language workplaces
Use spoken and written Japanese appropriate to professional contact situations, and appreciate how non-native speaker identity is constructed and negotiated in such situations
Employ strategies for mediating interactions involving the use of both Japanese and English languages, including interpreting and translation
Apply a range of disciplinary approaches to understanding business institutions and organisations in a Japanese context
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concepts and terms used to describe and discuss Japanese approaches to work and professional interaction
Read critically and engage with existing research, with the potential to facilitate life-long learning.
Demonstrate independent research skills including enquiry techniques, critical thinking, and skills of oral and written communication.

Assessment

In-class tests: 30%
Research paper(within semester): 50%
Interactive task(within semester): 20%

Chief examiner(s)

Jeremy Breaden

Workload requirements

One 2-hour seminar and one 2-hour tutorial per week; 8 hours private study, consisting of 4 hours assigned reading and class preparation time and 4 hours assignment/quiz preparation time and participation in online unit community

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Japanese studies

Prerequisites

ATS3147, ATS4147