MJPAN 2050 Japanese Language And Writing is a guided writing course designed to further develop students' ability to communicate more effectively in Japanese. Students will enhance their vocabulary, review challenging structures and learn to self-edit to avoid common errors as they write formal and informal messages and letters, instructions, autobiographical statements, journal entries and comments, current events reports, reactions, descriptions and summaries.
Pre-requisite(s): MJPAN 2020 Japanese Stage 4: Global Connections, MJPAN 2030 Perspectives In Language And Culture, or MJPAN 2040 Connections In Language And Culture.
MJPAN 2050 Japanese Language And Writing (2 hours)
MJPAN 2050 Japanese Language And Writing is a guided writing course designed to further develop students' ability to communicate more effectively in Japanese. Students will enhance their vocabulary, review challenging structures and learn to self-edit to avoid common errors as they write formal and informal messages and letters, instructions, autobiographical statements, journal entries and comments, current events reports, reactions, descriptions and summaries.
Pre-requisite(s): MJPAN 2020 Japanese Stage 4: Global Connections, MJPAN 2030 Perspectives In Language And Culture, or MJPAN 2040 Connections In Language And Culture.
MJPAN 2020 Japanese Stage 4: Global Connections (5 hours)
Stage 4: Global Connections invites students to enhance their intercultural and linguistic competence by exploring cultural, geographical, historical, and social perspectives of Japan as they develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence, thereby allowing them to engage and interact more effectively with native speakers of Japanese.
Prerequisite(s): MJPAN 2010 Japanese Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives.
(Normally offered each spring semester.)
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread
MJPAN 2030 Perspectives In Language And Culture (5 hours)
An intermediate-level language course, MJPAN 2030 Perspectives In Language And Culture invites students to explore cultural perspectives of Japan and their own as they review and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence through task-based learning, thereby enhancing their ability to interact in Japanese with more confidence on familiar topics. This is a non-sequential, intermediate-level course that may be taken before or after MJPAN 2040.
Prerequisite(s): MJPAN 1020 Japanese Stage 2: Personal Connections or appropriate placement.
Normally offered Fall semester.
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread
MJPAN 2040 Connections In Language And Culture (5 hours)
An intermediate-level language course, MJPAN 2040 Connections In Language And Culture invites students to enhance their intercultural and linguistic competence by exploring cultural, geographical, historical, and social perspectives of Japan as they develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence through task-based learning, thereby allowing them to engage and interact more effectively with speakers of Japanese. This is a non-sequential, intermediate-level course that may be taken before or after MJPAN 2030.
Prerequisite(s): MJPAN 1020 Japanese Stage 2: Personal Connections or appropriate placement.
Normally offered each Spring semester.
Archway Curriculum: Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
Archway Curriculum: Integrative Core: Going Global Thread
