JAPAN 412 - Intermediate Japanese

    Recent Professors
    Marcella G. Macmillan
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2025
    Class Size
    Not published
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisite
    JAPAN 411 with a grade of "C" or better
    Spring 2025 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 6A · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    In this course students learn new vocabulary, idioms, and grammar with the emphasis on Japanese language styles, for example, polite versus "humilific" expression styles. Students are required to learn approximately 100 additional Sino- Japanese characters, bringing the approximate number of mastered kanji to 300 in the two-year language sequence. Students learn to read and write simple sentences of literary Japanese. The course fully integrates culturally relevant aspects of the Japanese land and its people with close readings of famous literary works and exhaustive linguistic applications. By means of this framework of pragmatic language acquisition and skills, tempered with a multi-varied approach to culture, students are enabled to pursue more generalized cross-cultural analysis that is vital to a globalized world view.
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    Mon Wed 4:30pm–6:45pm