| 125f Elementary Japanese I Introduction to the spoken and written language to provide a thorough grounding in all the language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Five credit hours. PRINDLE
126s Elementary Japanese II Introduction to the spoken and written language to provide a thorough grounding in all the language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Prerequisite: Japanese 125. Five credit hours. PRINDLE
127f Intermediate Japanese I A continuation of the methods and goals used in elementary Japanese. Prerequisite: Japanese 126.
Four credit hours. ABE
128s Intermediate Japanese II A continuation of the methods and goals used in elementary Japanese. Prerequisite: Japanese 127. Four credit hours. ABE
135fs Conversational Japanese I In a small group setting, students practice speaking. Nongraded.
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Japanese 125 or 126.
One credit hour. SHIGA
235fs Conversational Japanese II In a small group setting, students practice speaking. Nongraded.
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Japanese 127 or 128.
One credit hour. SHIGA
321f Third-Year Japanese Advanced reading, audiovisual comprehension, and writing practices in Japanese. Designed primarily for those students who have had substantial experience in a Japanese-speaking setting.
Prerequisite: Japanese 128.
Four credit hours. PRINDLE
322s Third-Year Japanese Advanced reading, audiovisual comprehension, and writing practices in Japanese. Designed primarily for those students who have had substantial experience in a Japanese-speaking setting. Prerequisite: Japanese 321.
Four credit hours. PRINDLE
335fs Conversational Japanese III In a small group setting, students practice speaking. Nongraded.
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Japanese 321, 322, 421, or 422.
One credit hour. SHIGA
421f Fourth-Year Japanese Further reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Japanese, using current newspaper articles, short stories, and audiovisual materials. Prerequisite: Japanese 322.
Four credit hours. ABE
422s Fourth-Year Japanese Further reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Japanese, using current newspaper articles, short stories, and audiovisual materials. Prerequisite: Japanese 421.
Four credit hours. ABE
491f, 492s Independent Study Individual projects in areas where the student has demonstrated the interest and competence necessary for independent work. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Two to four credit hours. FACULTY
498s Reading Japanese 'Business Novels' A study of Japanese "business novels" (keizai shôsetsu) which put business and/or economic theories and activities into real-life contexts. Conducted entirely in Japanese, looks at the socio-eco-politico-cultural significance of each novel. Using the techniques of literary analysis, examines the distances among the "factual" data, details within the data, plots, the narrator, roles of the characters, and their viewpoints. Prerequisite: Japanese 421.
Four credit hours. L. PRINDLE
[499] Teaching Assistant One or two credit hours.
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