JPL3610

Japanese for engineers and scientists

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

4 points
* 1.5 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: Level C Japanese or equivalent

Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should have acquired vocabulary and a wide range of expressions in scientific and technology-related discussions; skills for reading scientific and technological texts in Japanese; the knowledge and skills necessary to produce in Japanese a research report relevant to their own area of study; and oral communicative skills for working in a research environment.

Synopsis This subject provides a grounding in scientific and technical Japanese and is particularly suited for students enrolled in the BSc degree or in the BA/BEng or BA/BSc joint degree programs. It seeks to build the vocabulary of students specific to each student's major, thereby adding to the general communicative skills which students have acquired through the three-year Monash Japanese program. It seeks in particular to develop the ability of students to handle specialist material through reading and project work relevant to the gathering and reporting of scientific and technical information.

Assessment Examinations (3 hours): 55%
* Project work (written and oral): 30%
* Assignments and homework: 15%

Prescribed texts

Yamazaki N and others, Handbook of scientific and technical Japanese Sotakusha 1992.