Japanese 103 - Bldg Survival Skills

Fall
2018
01
4.00
Kozue Miyama, Wako Tawa
MTWTH -
Amherst College
JAPA-103-01-1819F
kmiyama@amherst.edu; wtawa@amherst.edu

The course will emphasize active learning by each student in the class by means of the materials in the course website and individualized or small group discussions with the instructor. Small groups based on the students’ proficiency levels will be formed, so that instruction accords with the needs of each group. By the end of this course, students are expected to be familiar with most basic Japanese structures, to have acquired a substantial vocabulary, and to have gained sufficient speaking, listening, reading, and writing proficiency levels, which will enable the students to survive using Japanese in Japan. As for literacy, a few hundred new characters (Kanji) will be added by reading and writing longer passages. 

Requisite: JAPA 102 or equivalent. Fall and spring semesters. Senior Lecturer Miyama and Professor Tawa.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.