JAPN-1011: Intensive First Level Japanese I

Course Description: Designed for students with no or little knowledge of Japanese, this intensive introductory course focuses on building up a solid foundation of linguistic and cultural knowledge as well as interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication skills. Students are expected to develop basic competence in the following areas: (a) engaging in spoken and/or written interpersonal communications dealing with familiar topics that are relevant to their life; (b) obtaining information from a variety of audio, visual, audio-visual, written and printed resources; and (c) planning and producing spoken and/or written presentational communications. Students will learn all hiragana and katakana characters and approximately 200 kanji characters by the end of the year. Rigorous participation in class activities, various oral and written assignments and projects, frequent quizzes and tests, and mid-term and final exams will be required. Prerequisite: None.