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| JAPANSE 1A | FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF | The objective of Japanese 1A-1B-1C is to guide students in developing facility in basic Japanese. Studnts will be introduced to the fundamentals of the language needed to survive in Japan in basic daily life situations. Students will learn most of the basic grammar of Japanese and to read and write Hiragana, Katakana, and about 250 Kanji (Chinese characters). |
| JAPANSE 2A | INTERMEDIATE | STAFF | The objective of the Japanese 2A-2B-2C series is to help students to improve their communication skills in more complicated situations and on more abstract topics. Students will learn more advanced grammatical patterns and useful expressions in Japanese and to expand their vocabulary. Students will learn about Japanese culture and society, and are expected to express their thoughts orally and in writing. About 400 more Kanji will be introduced. Prerequisite: Japanese 1C or equivalent. |
| JAPANSE 3A | ADVANCED JAPANESE | STAFF | In the Japanese 3A-3B-3C series, students learn more sophisticated expressions and Kanji compounds needed to work on more complex materials in Japanese. Students are exposed to more authentic materials in preparation for their further studies in Japanese. Various facets of reading and listening will be introduced through materials concerned with Japanese society, culture, tradition, history, economics, politics and current trends. Students will learn to read about and discuss these topics, and to express their thoughts in writing. About 300 new Kanji characters will be introduced, along with Kanji compounds formulated from both new and previously learned Kanji. |
| JAPANSE 100A | CLASSICAL JAPANESE | KLEIN, S. | Japanese grammar through the reading of selected literary works, such as poems from Kokinshu and Shin Kokinshu, tales from early vernacular collections, and essays by Sei Shonagon and Kamo no Chomei. Emphasis throughout will be on reading comprehension, with special emphasis on a thorough understanding of traditional grammar and syntax, with some attention also given to figurative language and literary conventions. Students will be quizzed regularly and will take at least two midterms and a comprehensive final examination. |
| JAPANSE 101A | 4TH YEAR JAPANESE | MATSUURA, J. | Continued emphasis on comprehension, grammar, and proficiency in reading, compostion, and conversation through intensive study and analysis of a variety of texts. prerequisite: Japanese 3C or equivalent. |
| JAPANSE 115 | ADVANCED TEXTS | FOWLER, E. | A reading course designed for students with near-fluency in written Japanese. texts will include both fiction and non-fiction by important writers, and may be supplemented and contextualized where needed by literary criticism and cultural-studies texts in English. Prerequisite: Japanese 101C or consent of instructor. May be taken for credit three times as topic varies. |
| JAPANSE 213A | READING THE CITY; WRITING JAPAN | FOWLER, E. | This seminar will explore ways in which mid-twentieth century Japanese writers \'read\' the city, especially Tokyo, and consider how their texts (both fiction and nonfiction) might instruct our thinking about the uses of \'tradition\' and the meaning of modernity in Japan. Our approach to the texts will be rigorously topographical, but also aesthetic and ultimately political, for the simple reason that writers like Nagai Kafu (who will undoubtedly figure prominently in a course like this) had a sweeping literary agenda that ranged the entire spectrum from art to politics.
Japanese 213A is essentially a reading course that provides a foundation for 213B (Winter 2005), during which students write a paper on a topic discussed in 213A.
The seminar will be organized in a way that complements the material presented in another East Asian graduate seminar, Japanese 230: Time, Space, Japan, taught by James Fujii. |
| JAPANSE 230 | TIEM, SPACE, JAPAN | FUJII, J. | This seminar examines Japanese modernity by focusing on changing conceptions of time and space, with particular attention paid to the latter. The city is the quintessential spatial formation of modern life. Readings in critical theory, modern Japanese literature (in translation), and other miscellaneous materials (including film) will provide us the means to view the city (in this case, Tokyo, and other cities like Osaka) as itself the site of contest, uneven development, and of colonized space, even as it spills out into adjoining lands that Western terms like \"suburb\" cannot adequately describe in relation to Japan. The relationship of metropolitan space to changing conceptions of time will at once serve as a compass for negotiating Japanese modernity and a way to read the literary and cultural work of such figures as Soseki, Akutagawa, and Shibaki Yoshiko to name a few.
This is a stand-alone course that is also designed to complement Professor Fowler\'s Japanese 213A, \"Reading the City; Writing Japan.\" |
| JAPANSE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| JAPANSE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | FOWLER, E.B. | |
| JAPANSE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | FUJII, J.A. | |
| JAPANSE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | KLEIN, S.B. | |
| JAPANSE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | WILLIAMS, D. | |