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Japanese (JPN)
College of Languages, Linguistics and
Literature
All students taking language courses in this program for the first time must take a regularly scheduled placement test; those with no background must come to the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures for a brief interview. A grade of C or better is required in the prerequisite courses for continuation.
JPN 100 Elementary Japanese, Special (3) Same material as 101, covered more quickly for students with some language background. Pre: placement test. FL
JPN 101 Elementary Japanese (4) Listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar. Meets one hour daily, Monday-Friday, plus daily lab work. Pre: placement test. FL
JPN 102 Elementary Japanese (4) Continuation of 100 or 101. Pre: 100, 101, or consent. FL
JPN 105 Accelerated Elementary Japanese (8) Content of 101 and 102 covered in one semester. Meets two hours daily, Monday-Friday, plus daily lab work. Pre: consent. FL
JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese (4) Continuation of 101 and 102. Meets one hour daily, Monday-Friday, plus daily lab work. Pre: 102, 105, or placement test. FL
JPN 202 Intermediate Japanese (4) Continuation of 201. Pre: 201 or placement test. FL
JPN 205 Accelerated Intermediate Japanese (8) Content of 201 and 202 covered in one semester. Meets two hours daily, Monday-Friday, plus daily lab work. Pre: 102, 105, or consent. FL
JPN 211 Second-Year Japanese for Business/TIM (4)
Specific aspects of Japanese language and culture intended to meet the social demands and working requirements of business and/or travel industry management. Meets five hours a week plus lab work. Pre: 102, 105, or consent; and business or TIM major.
JPN 212 Second-Year Japanese for Business/TIM (4) Continuation of 211. Pre: 201, 211, or consent; and business or TIM major.
JPN 258 Intermediate Japanese Abroad (4) Intensive course of formal instruction on the second-year level in Japanese language and culture in Japan. Pre: 102.
JPN 259 Intermediate Japanese Abroad (4) Continuation of 258. Pre: 201 or 258.
JPN 301 Third-Year Japanese (4) Transitional course employing four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and grammar training to prepare students to address academic content in Japanese. Meets one hour daily, Monday-Friday, plus daily lab work. Pre: 202, 205, or placement test.
JPN 302 Third-Year Japanese (4) Continuation of 301. Pre: 301 or placement test.
JPN 305 Accelerated Third-Year Japanese (8) Content of 301 and 302 covered in one semester. Meets two hours daily, Monday-Friday, plus daily lab work. Pre: 202 or 205; or consent.
JPN 307 Special Japanese Reading and Writing (3) For bilingual students whose aural and spoken skills in Japanese were acquired informally. Emphasis on reading and writing through 301 level. Pre: placement test. FL
JPN 308 Special Japanese Reading and Writing (3) Continuation of 307. Pre: 307 or placement test. FL
JPN 315 Third-Year Japanese Aural Comprehension (3) Training in strategies for listening to various types of spoken material presented in narrations, interviews, news broadcasts, and lectures, etc. Pre: 302 or consent.
JPN 350 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (3) Introduction to major areas of linguistic description as applied to Japanese language. Pre: 302 or 305.
JPN 358 Third-Level Japanese Abroad (4) Intensive course of full-time formal instruction on the third-year level in Japanese language and culture in Japan. Pre: 202.
JPN 359 Third-Level Japanese Abroad (4) Continuation of 358. Pre: 301 or 358.
JPN 370 Language in Japanese Society (3) Review of the use of Japanese respect language in relation to social structure, interpersonal relationships, and ways of thinking. Pre: 302, 305, or consent.
JPN 399 Directed Third-Level Reading (V) For those who need special assistance, e.g., reading texts in area of specialization or at a pace more rapid than those of standard courses. CR/NC only. Repeatable. Pre: consent.
JPN 401 Fourth-Level Japanese Reading (3) Continuation of 301 and 302 with emphasis on development of reading skills. Pre: 302, 305, or placement test.
JPN 402 Fourth-Level Japanese Reading (3) Continuation of 401. Pre: 401 or placement test.
JPN 405 Fourth-Level Japanese Reading: Accelerated (6) Content of 401 and 402 covered in one semester. Meets daily Monday-Friday. Pre: 302, 305, or placement test.
JPN 407 (Alpha) Readings in Original Texts (3) (B) newspapers and magazines; (C) social sciences; (D) humanities; (E) modern literature. Pre: 402, 405, or consent.
JPN 415 Japanese Aural Comprehension (3) Training in comprehension of spoken material presented in news broadcasts, documentary narration, formal lectures, etc. Pre: 402, 405, or consent. May be concurrent with 407.
JPN 420 Fourth-Level Spoken Japanese (3) Training in oral communication skills in varied social contexts. Pre: 402 or 405.
JPN 421 Japanese Composition (3) Writing skills refined through practice in various styles (essays, letters, etc.). Pre: 402, 405, or consent.
JPN 425 Japanese Translation (3) Training in techniques of translating Japanese into English. Pre: 407 or consent.
JPN 451 Structure of Japanese (3) Introduction to phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of modern colloquial Japanese. Pre: 402 or 405, and 350 or LING 320; or consent.
JPN 458 Fourth-Level Japanese Abroad (3) Intensive course of full time instruction on the fourth-year level in Japanese language and culture in Japan. Pre: 302.
JPN 459 Fourth-Level Japanese Abroad (3) Continuation of 458. Pre: 401 or 458.
JPN 461 Introduction to Classical Japanese (3) Basic classical Japanese grammar to develop reading skills. Pre: 407 or consent.
JPN 466 Readings in Classical Japanese (3) Introduction to major genres of prose and poetry. Repeatable once with permission. Pre: 461 or consent.
JPN 485 (Alpha) Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese (3) (B) literature; (C) nonfiction. Repeatable once. Pre: 407E and one of 407B, 407C, or 407D; or consent.
JPN 490 Advanced Language Study: Japanese (3) Advanced course in spoken and written Japanese stressing intensive research using the Internet, electronic mail in Japanese and conventional media. Oral presentations, written reports and journal writing. Repeatable. Pre: 485 or equivalent and consent.
JPN 495 Internship Program (3) Analysis of intercultural communication processes under faculty supervision through participation in an organization serving native speakers of Japanese. Pre: 302 and 370 (or concurrent), or consent.
JPN 499 Directed Fourth-Level Reading (V) For those who need special assistance, e.g., in reading texts in area of specialization or at a pace more rapid than those of standard courses. Primarily for graduate students from other departments. CR/NC only. Repeatable. Pre: consent.
JPN 601 Japanese Phonology and Morphology (3) Introduction to the phonology and morphology of modern colloquial Japanese. Pre: LING 320 or consent.
JPN 602 Japanese Syntax and Semantics (3) Introduction to theories of syntax, sentence structure, parts of speech, constituency, grammatical relations and case marking, word order, passives, causatives, tense, aspect, and embeddings. Pre: LING 320 or consent.
JPN 604 Introduction to Japanese Language Pedagogy (3) Training in the identification and analysis of general problems in Japanese language learning, teaching, and testing by examining theoretical issues and conducting classroom research. Pre: 407 or equivalent, 451 and 605 (or concurrent); or consent.
JPN 605 Research Methodology in Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching (3) Japanese-specific training in the formulation of testable hypotheses, in basic statistical and other evaluation techniques, and in the organization and presentation of ideas and data in paper, abstracts, etc. Pre: 407 or equivalent.
JPN 606 Introduction to Japanese Sociolinguistics (3) Introduces theories of language use and provides training in the methodology and analysis of Japanese sociolinguistics. Pre: 370, 407 or equivalent, and 605 (or concurrent); or consent.
JPN 610 (Alpha) Japanese Poetry (3) Historical survey of major poetic types. Repeatable once with consent. (B) classical; (C) medieval Edo; (D) modern. Pre: 466 or consent for (B) and (C); 485 or consent for (D).
JPN 611 (Alpha) Modern Japanese Literature (3) Representative literary works, emphasis on fiction. Repeatable once with consent. (B) Meiji-Taisho (1868-1926); (C) Showa-Heisei (1926-present). Pre: 485 or consent.
JPN 612 Edo Literature (3) Critical reading and analysis; emphasis on prose. Repeatable once with consent. Pre: 466 or consent.
JPN 613 Medieval Japanese Literature (3) Critical reading and analysis of Kamakura and Muromachi literature, emphasis on prose. Repeatable once with consent. Pre: 466 or consent.
JPN 614 Classical Japanese Literature (3) Critical reading and analysis of Heian literature; emphasis on prose. Repeatable once with consent. Pre: 466 or consent.
JPN 631 History of the Japanese Language (3) Survey, theories of origin; related topics in linguistic methodology. Pre: 461 and 601, or consent.
JPN 632 Teaching Japanese as a Second Language (3) Practical overview of major problems; motivation; adult second language learning; communicative and linguistic competence; practical classroom techniques of teaching and testing. Pre: 604 and 605; or consent.
JPN 633 Japanese Sociolinguistics (3) Variations in language form and use depending on social factors. Pre: 601 or 602 (or concurrent), 605 and 606; or consent.
JPN 634 Advanced Japanese Syntax and Semantics (3) Theoretical problems in description of Japanese; contributions of Japanese linguistic study to syntactic theory. Pre: 602 or consent.
JPN 640 Themes in Japanese Literature (3) Intensive study of selected themes in Japanese literature, primarily in the modern period. Content to be announced. Open to non-majors. Repeatable with consent. Pre: 485 or equivalent, or consent.
JPN 641 Traditional Literary Theory (3) Reading and analysis of major works of literary theory and criticism from the classical, medieval, and Edo periods. Pre: 466 or consent.
JPN 642 Kambun (3) Introduction to kambun [the Japanese manner of reading and writing classical Chinese], with critical reading of kambun by Japanese authors. Pre: 461 or consent.
JPN 650 (Alpha) Topics in Japanese Linguistics (3) (C) Japanese/English contrastive analysis (Pre: 601 and 602); (G) structure; Pre: 634 (H) historical change; Pre: 631 (K) history of Japanese language studies (Kokugo-gaku-shi); Pre: 631 (M) morphophonemics; Pre: 601 (P) pedagogy; Pre: 632 (S) sociolinguistics; Pre: 633.
JPN 699 Directed Research (V) CR/NC only. Pre: consent of chair.
JPN 710 (Alpha) Research Seminar in Japanese Literature (3) (M) modern; Pre: 611 (P) pre-modern; Pre: 612, 613, or 614.
JPN 730 (Alpha) Research Seminar in Japanese Linguistics (3) (C) Japanese/English contrastive analysis; Pre: 451, or 601 and 602 (G) structure; Pre: 634 (H) historical change; Pre: 631 (K) history of Japanese language studies (Kokugo-gaku-shi); Pre: 631 (M) morphophonemics; Pre: 601 (P) pedagogy; Pre: 632 (S) sociolinguistics; Pre: 633.
JPN 799 Practicum: Teaching Japanese Language (V) This course is designed for graduate students pursuing Japanese language teaching and learning, while developing teaching skill, curriculum competence, and leadership. Pre: 632 and EALL 601, or consent.
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