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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 | KIMURA, J. | 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 | MORIOKA, A. | 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 | FOWLER, E. | 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 | TOPICS VARY | FOWLER, E. | Contemporary Japan is frequently described as a nation of middle-class citizens. The latter are, of course, highly visible, as is the conspicuous corporate wealth in any large city, especially Tokyo. Japanese society is much more diverse and certainly more class-conscious than it generally appears on the surface, however; and the stratifications that characterized traditional society, and the inequities that they brought, persist to this day. In this course, we shall be examining the legacy of colonialism and the premodern caste system in particular on postwar society, as depicted in extended narratives (chôhen shôsetsu) by at least two important writers
active in the 1960s and 1970s. Their fictional worlds offer us a glimpse of a Japan that is crucial to our understanding of contemporary society-of a Japan that usually goes unnoticed (or unmentioned) by most Japanese. The narratives are set in Kansai, the first in Osaka, the second in Kyoto, which fact alone gives the reader a vastly different impression of Japan, linguistically and culturally, than fiction set in Tokyo. |