JAPANESE

JPN 085 Introductory Japanese
JPN 101 Elementary Japanese I
JPN 102 Elementary Japanese II
JPN 108 Japanese Anime
JPN 109 Japanese Anime and Fantastic Literature
JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I
JPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
JPN 245 Japanese Culture and Communication

JPN 085 Introductory Japanese

Elementary Japanese conversation. Includes an overview of the Japanese language, writing and pronunciation, and useful daily expressions. Also includes expressions in daily life and Japanese culture and communication.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Apply basic conversations in Japanese.
2. Explain basic Japanese grammar.
3. Demonstrate the cultural context within which Japanese conversation takes place.
4. Identify the Hiragana and Katakana scripts.

Course Outline:

1. Overview of Japanese Language
2. Japanese grammar
3. Japanese communication styles
4. Writing and Pronunciation
5. Romaji (Romanization)
6. Hiragana
7. Katakana
8. Useful Daily Expressions
9. Expressions in Daily Life
10. Introductions
11. Asking what things are
12. Numbers
13. Months, dates, days, and times
14. Asking how much things cost
15. Counting objects and people
16. Directions (going/coming/returning)
17. Existence of people and things
18. Places, locations
19. Daily activities
20. Telephoning
21. Adjectives
22. Japanese Culture and Communication

JPN 101 Elementary Japanese I

Introduction to the Japanese language. Includes an overview of the Japanese language, speaking and listening, grammar, personal transactions, and the cultural context within which Japanese conversation takes place. Also includes writing and reading of Hiragana, Katakana, and 75 new Kanji characters.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Derive meaning from written Japanese that contains vocabulary where context and/or background knowledge are supportive.
2. Write simple sentences using formulaic expressions and learned vocabulary in Japanese.
3. Utilize frequently used expressions to describe self and others, and formulate questions to satisfy basic needs.
4. Express basic needs and use basic courtesy expressions.
5. Demonstrate comprehension of frequently used words and phrases in simple spoken questions, statements, commands, and courtesy formulae.
6. Identify components of the culture, including physical (personal space, customs), non-verbal (gestures, music), geographical, and arts (music and art).
7. Read and write Hiragana, Katakana, and 75 Kanji characters.

Course Outline:

1. Overview of Japanese Language
2. Japanese communication styles
3. Japanese grammar
4. Speaking and Listening
5. Oral exercises
6. Tapes listening exercises
7. Writing and Reading
8. Romaji (Romanization)
9. Hiragana
10. Katakana
11. Kanji (approximately 75 new kanji)
12. Writing and reading exercises
13. Grammar
14. Numerals and counters
15. Months, dates, days, and times
16. Possessions
17. Demonstratives
18. Particles
19. Daily activities (future and past)
20. Expressing likes and dislikes
21. Invitations
22. Locations
23. Existence
24. Suggestions
25. Adjectival and adverbial expressions
26. Polite and plain forms
27. Personal Transactions
28. Introducing yourself and friends
29. Everyday greetings
30. Asking locations and showing locations on a map
31. Describing one's town
32. Making a phone call
33. Invitations
34. Asking how much things cost
35. Polite requests
36. Explaining schedules and daily life

JPN 102 Elementary Japanese II

Prerequisite(s): JPN 101.

Continuation of JPN 101. Includes oral and written forms, grammatical structures, and interpersonal transactions. Also includes the cultural component of communication competency.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Derive meaning from the Japanese written language from texts that are structurally simple.
2. Recombine learned vocabulary into structurally simple written statements and questions.
3. Recombine learned vocabulary and frequently used expressions into meaningful statements with evidence of creativity and/or improvisation.
4. Express basic needs and use basic courtesy expressions.
5. Demonstrate comprehension of high frequency and some limited terms of low frequency of learned vocabulary in structurally simple sentences and questions in a limited number of content areas.
6. Recognize simple cultural norms, beliefs, and regional variations of areas where the Japanese language is used.
7. Recognize key social and cultural Japanese traditions.

Course Outline:

1. Oral and Written Forms.
2. 99 additional kanji characters
3. Pronunciation
4. Grammatical Structures
5. Adjective conjunction
6. Comparatives and superlatives
7. Past, plain verb forms
8. Extended predicate
9. Verb, adjective, nominal te-form
10. Probability and conjecture
11. Interrogative plus particles
12. Potential forms
13. Nominalizer
14. Progressive
15. Relative clause
16. Past experience
17. Desire
18. Opinion
19. Excessive
20. Quoted speech
21. Intention/verb volitional form
22. Simultaneous actions
23. Temporal clause
24. Indefinite pronoun
25. Conditional clause
26. Reporting hearsay
27. Embedded question
28. Interpersonal Transactions
29. Describe, compare, and predict weather and climate
30. Describe a schedule in logical order
31. Express conjectures
32. Describe hobby and degree of ability
33. Describe family members
34. Describe someone's progressive and habitual action
35. Describe favorite food and drink
36. Describe past experiences
37. Make polite request
38. Discuss plan
39. Express 1st and 3rd persons' desires
40. Express opinions in a culturally appropriate way
41. Quote hearsay
42. Describe planned action and the reason for the proposed action
43. Describe simultaneous actions
44. Transact purchases
45. Describe clothes used on various occasions
46. Provide multiple reasons
47. Give culturally appropriate answers to questions
48. Write a formal letter
49. Read a newspaper style article
50. Read various brochures

JPN 108 Japanese Anime

Historical and modern anime will be examined as an indice of cultural/economic changes in Japanese/Western contact. In addition, Japanese culture reflected in popular art form will be analyzed with an emphasis on delineating ways in which this analysis can be used to facilitate communication between Japan and the West.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Discuss the growth of anime as an art form, to the history of Japanese and Western contact.
2. Identify ways in which anime reflects traditional Japanese cultural values.
3. Compare and contrast the differences between the Japanese and Western values reflected in popular art.
4. Discuss ways in which people can utilize their knowledge in understanding culture related differences in both the media and in face-to-face communications between Japan and the West.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction
2. History of Japanese anime
   1. 1917 - 1962
   2. The '60's - birth of modern anime
   3. The '70's through the '80's - anime matures
   4. The '90's - Internationalization
   5. Relationship to Manga
   6. Social impact of animation
   7. Characteristics of Japanese Animation
3. Stories
4. Characters
5. Genres
6. Gender/Violence
7. Cinematic effects
8. Music
9. Japanese use of English
10. Production process, theater/TV/OVA/OAV/video format
11. Adapting Anime for other Cultures
12. Translation/subtitles
13. Dubbing
14. Censoring
15. Analysis of Expression through Anime
16. Immediacy and expressiveness
17. Individualism vs. collectivism
18. Power distance
19. High context vs. low context
20. Japanese culture reflected in anime

JPN 109 Japanese Anime and Fantastic Literature

Historical and modern Japanese fantastic literature will be examined as an indice of cultural and economic changes brought about by Japanese and Western contact. Includes Japanese anime and the analysis of specific areas of Japanese culture to facilitate understanding between Japan and the West.

Information: This course is taught in English

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Identify the history and social impact of Japanese fantastic literature.
2. Explain the characteristics of Japanese fantastic literature and animation.
3. Identify the ways in which fantastic literature continues to reflect traditional Japanese cultural values.
4. Describe how anime, through its evolving association with popular culture, impacts the issues presented in Japanese fantastic literature.
5. Specify ways in which understanding these art forms adds to people's understanding of culture-related differences in the Japanese media and aids people in seeing the effects of culture on all forms of communication.

Course Outline:

1. Japanese Fantastic Literature and Animation
2. History
3. Social impact
4. Characteristics of Japanese Fantastic Literature and Animation
5. Stories
6. Characters
7. Genres
8. Gender/Violence
9. Literary effects
10. Stylistic trademarks
11. Japanese Culture
12. Immediacy and expressiveness
13. Individualism vs. collectivism
14. Power distance
15. High context vs. low context
16. Japanese culture reflected in fantastic literature and in anime
17. Evolution of Japanese Anime
18. Popular culture
19. Issues
20. Analysis
21. In-class viewing
22. Discussion

Intermediate Japanese I

Prerequisite(s): JPN 102.

Continuation of Japanese 102. Includes speaking and listening, grammar, personal transactions, and the cultural context to which Japanese conversations take place. Also includes reading and writing Hiragana, Katakana, and 250 Kanji characters.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Participate in basic conversations in Japanese using more complex sentence structures.
2. Demonstrate increased self-confidence in the effective use of the spoken language.
3. Read uncomplicated magazines, brochures, and newspapers with the aid of a dictionary.
4. Read and write Hiragana, Katakana and 250 Kanji characters.
5. Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the cultural context within which Japanese conversations take place.
6. Identify cultural aspects of Japanese society.
7. Gain enough overall knowledge for further study of the Japanese language.

Course Outline:

1. Speaking and Listening
2. Oral exercises
3. Taped listening exercises
4. Writing and Reading
5. Kanji (approximately 75 new Kanji)
6. Writing and reading exercises
7. Grammar
8. Making decisions
9. Describing decisions
10. Describing occurrences before and after they take place
11. Conditionals
12. Commands
13. Admonishment and prohibitions
14. Adverbial use of adjectives
15. Expressing obligation and duty
16. Introducing new topics
17. Expressing purposes
18. Giving and receiving
19. Expressing permission
20. Negative requests
21. Offering advice
22. Expressing different states of actions
23. Preparatory actions
24. Expressing how to perform certain acts
25. Transitive and intransitive verbs
26. Results and states of being
27. Expressing attempted actions
28. Expressing just completed actions
29. Personal Transactions
30. Planning Travel
31. Making hotel reservations
32. Buying train tickets
33. Conversing about housing
34. Invitations
35. Conversing about transportation
36. Asking and giving instructions

JPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II

Prerequisite(s): JPN 201.

Continuation of Japanese 201. Includes speaking and listening, grammar, personal transactions, and using more complex sentence structure in a cultural context within which Japanese conversations take place. Also includes Hiragana, Katakana, and 3645 Kanji characters.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Read and write Hiragana, Katakana and 365 Kanji characters.
2. Derive meaning from and demonstrate comprehension of written Japanese from connected and/or complex texts.
3. Apply critical thinking skills to analyze and evaluate texts which have a clear, underlying internal structure.
4. Create increasingly complex sentences in writing.
5. Describe and narrate in coherent unified paragraphs.
6. Follow the writing process (organizing, revising, proofreading) in Japanese.
7. Respond to unanticipated questions on increasingly complex topics.
8. Maintain a conversation on increasingly complex topics with moderate accuracy.
9. Demonstrate comprehension of main ideas of lengthy aural discourse of increasingly complex topics.
10. Demonstrate further understanding of norms, values, and beliefs of areas where Japanese language is used.

Course Outline:

1. Speaking and Listening
2. Oral exercises
3. Tapes listening exercises
4. Writing and Reading
5. Kanji (approximately 115 new kanji)
6. Writing formal letters
7. Writing and reading exercises
8. Grammar
9. Analogy and exemplification
10. Attributes
11. Describing appearance
12. Causatives
13. Expectations
14. Colloquial speech
15. Expressing the frequency of actions and events
16. Describing changes in state
17. Honorific and humble forms
18. Passives
19. Describing efforts
20. Conditionals
21. Requests
22. Causative-passive
23. Expressing concessions
24. Describing occasional happenings
25. Expressing conviction
26. Expressing the speaker's emotional involvement
27. Expressing logical conclusions
28. Decisions made by others
29. Personal Transactions
30. Engaging in conversations about health-related issues
31. Job searches and interviews
32. Discussing Japanese (popular) culture and media
33. Discussing nature and pollution
34. Business phone calls

JPN 245 Japanese Culture and Communication

Theories on the impact of culture on communication with the Japanese applied to Japanese communication styles and the Japanese language. Includes Japanese communication dimensions, and barriers to successful intercultural communication between the Japanese and others. Also includes an overview of the Japanese language, cultural factors affecting communication between the Japanese and others, and improving communication with the Japanese.

Information: This course is taught in English.

Performance Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Define the cultural dimensions affecting communication with the Japanese.
2. Identify the cultural factors which, along with language, affect intercultural communication.
3. Read and interpret research on the impact of Japanese culture on language and communication.
4. Apply cultural dimensions and communication factors to locate Japan on the communication continuum.
5. Identify ways in which language and cultural factors limit successful communication between the Japanese and themselves.
6. Specify ways to utilize Japanese communication styles to improve Japanese language and/or communication skills.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction
2. Define culture and communication
3. Analyze the communication process
4. Japanese Communication Dimensions
5. Immediacy and expressiveness
6. Individualism vs. collectivism
7. Power distance
8. High context vs. low context
9. Barriers to Successful Communication Between the Japanese and Others
10. Anxiety
11. Ethnocentrism
12. Stereotypes
13. Assumption of similarity
14. Nonverbal behavior
15. An Overview of the Japanese Language
16. Written systems
17. Japanese syntax as a reflection of cultural factors
18. Japanese semantics as a reflection of cultural factors
19. Conversational styles
20. Cultural Factors Affecting Communication Between the Japanese and Others
21. Improving Communication with the Japanese