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 110-136 Japanese 4B-Language and Culture

Note

This course is optional for Japanese 4B students. However, it is strongly recommended for those who intend to take Japanese 5A/5B in the following year.

Availability

1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Mr J Ohashi

Prerequisites

Japanese 4A

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Three hours of language classes and a 1-hour computer laboratory class per week

Subject Description

The understanding of culture-specific expressions and phenomena requires factual/historical background knowledge; this is what the course is aiming at. Topics have been selected carefully to provide students with an adequate frame of reference in order to discuss current issues in Japan via cross-cultural analysis.

Assessment

Assignments and quizzes totalling 2000 words, and a 1-hour examination, and a 20-minute oral project work presentation. An additional translation exercise totalling 1000 words for 4th-year. Students are required to attend a minimum of 70% of all classes in order to be eligible to take examinations.

Prescribed Texts
  • Nippon Steel Human Resources Development Co Ltd and Japan College of Foreign Languages, Aspects of Japanese Society. The Japan Times 1994..
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