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Course Content and Outcome Guide for JPN 202

Date:

01-AUG-2012

Posted by:

Curriculum Office

Course Number:

JPN 202

Course Title:

Second Year Japanese

Credit Hours:

5

Lecture hours:

50

Lecture/Lab hours:

0

Lab hours:

0

Special Fee:

 

Course Description

Expands study of Japanese language and culture, emphasizing effective communicative skills in written and spoken language. Adds the new practices, products and perspectives of Japanese culture. The second course of a three-course sequence of second-year Japanese. Prerequisite: JPN 201 or instructor permission. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Apply broader cultural understandings and recognize Japanese cultural values to interact with native speakers of Japanese and
authentic texts
2. Employ an understanding of the Japanese syntactic system to read and compose more colloquial Japanese texts in Japanese Kana
syllabaries and complex Kanji characters.
3. Use intermediate-level Japanese grammatical structures and vocabulary to acquire information in more natural settings.
4. Use effective communicative skills to interact with native speakers of Japanese by managing both mid-level formal and some
informal levels of speech.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following: 

1. Active participation in class
2. Individual presentations
3. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading, writing, cultural, and aural competencies, as well as quizzes over syllabaries and Kanji.
4. Oral interviews with partner or instructor
5. In class, interactive student role-plays

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)