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| JAPANSE 1C | FUNDAMENTALS | CHINEN/SITHIAMNUAI/MORIOKA/MATSUURA | The objective of Japanese 1A-1B-1C is to guide students in deveoping facility in basic Japanese. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of the language needed to survive in Japan in basic life situations. Students will learn most of the basic grammar of Japan and to read and write Hiragana, Katakana, and about 175 Kanji (Chinese characters). Prerequisite: Japanese 1B or equivalent. |
| JAPANSE 2C | INTERMEDIATE | COWGILL/MORIOKA/KIMURA | 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 expand their vocabulary. Students will learn about Japanese culture and society, and are expected to express their thoughts orally and in writing. About 332 more Kanji will be introduced. Prerequisite: Japanese 2B or equivalent. |
| JAPANSE 3C | ADVANCED JAPANESE | SITHIAMNUAI/KIMURA | n 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 facts 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. Prerequisite: Japanese 3B or equivalent. |
| JAPANSE 101C | 4TH YEAR JAPANESE | INOUE, K. | Japanese 101C is the third quarter of fourth-year Japanese language instruction and is intended for students who have completed JP101A and B or their equivalent. This course is designed to challenge students through a wide range of primarily written materials in order to develop the capacity to become a self-sufficient reader of Japanese. Although we will focus on increasing vocabulary, kanji and knowledge of grammar, the primary objective of the course is to increase your ability to read and understand diverse forms of written expression. To that end we will take up written forms ranging from literary and journalistic styles to essays, advertising, and comics. You will also be asked to refine such skills as skimming, translation, and dictionary work. The final grade will be decided based mainly on the your performance in reading comprehension. Those who complete Japanese 101C will have a solid foundation for Japanese 115, a course that deals primarily with literary texts. |
| JAPANSE 205 | RDGS JAPANSE RELGN | WILLIAMS, D. | A graduate-level seminar to orient students to readings in the study of Japanese religions. The course will have two major components: a translation practicum of Japanese religions texts and readings of secondary literature on Japanese religions in translation. This course requires Japanese 101C or its equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Students are expected to attend the seminar regularly and contribute to discussions (40% of grade). Students will also be expected to participate
in a weekly translation project (20% of grade). A final research paper of 15 pages or a substantial translation submission is required (40% of grade). The text for 2005 is Tana daisho's Santa Fe, Lordsburg Rokuryûjo Nikki, a diary of a Buddhist priest in a U.S. internment camp during world war two.
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| JAPANSE 230 | EMPIRE & LITERATURE | HWANG, H. | Colonialism and Bilingual Politics in the Wartime Japanese Empire. This course will focus on colonial bilingual writing and the problematic of minorities in modern Japanese literature, highlighting in particular the literature of the fascist period between the late 1930s and the end of the war. The lectures will be conducted in plain Japanese. We will engage both Japanese language colonial literature as a minority literature, as well as the perspectives of japanese writers on Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, etc. as colonies. Imperial language hierarchy and the appropriation of the language of the colonizer are understood as among the politics of language. Linguistic imperialism, nationalism, colonialism and the problems of wartime collaboration will be read through the Japanese language work of authors (Koreans, Taiwanese, Japanese in Korea) writing in the colonies. Specifically, we will take the work of Kim Sa-ryang as our principal text, while also looking at the writings of the :Keijo Japanese Literary Circle: (Tanaka Hidemitsu, Choi, Jae-seo, Yi Suk-hoon). |