Effective: Spring 2001
Course Number: * 681-103
Course Title: Beginning Japanese III

15 Character Abbreviation: BEG JAPANESEIII
25 Character Abbreviation: BEGINNING JAPANESE III

Sponsor: Peter Hoff
E-mail Address: HOFFP
College: Letters and Sciences
Department: Language & Literature

Co-sponsor: Larry Neuman
E-mail Address: NEUMANL
College: Letters and Sciences
Department: Sociology/Asian Studies

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Other Programs Affected: Asian Studies Minor

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Credit/Contact Hours: (per semester)

Total lab hours:             Total lecture hours: 64
Number of credits 4      Total contact hours: 64

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Course justification:

Student demand for Japanese in the past seven years has remained stable at about 20-25 in first semester and about one-half that second semester. This occurred although the course was not a stable part of the curriculum and the instructor was a non-professional graduate student who taught part-time. State-wide demand for Japanese has greatly increased at the high school level from 15 to almost 1,500 students in the past 10 year, until now it ties Latin as the fourth most enrolled foreign language. These students often want to continue to develop their language skills. Japan is a significant employer in the state and is the second, destination in terms of sales, for Wisconsin export products. This course complements new study abroad programs to Japan, a renewed Asian Studies minor, and other Japanese courses fit with the expansion of Asian Studies at UW-Whitewater.

Relationship to program assessment objectives:

The course develops student abilities in all four major skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and brings them to national standards of proficiency for first year (about 12 semester credit hours) Japanese.

Budgetary impact:

This course is part of a four course (two-year) sequence which is initially supported by external funding. It will be evaluated for continuation based on student demand. In the past students have expressed a demand for second year Japanese and a new, professionally trained instructor is likely to increase first year enrollments which will feed into second year. The possibility for supplemental outside funding by distance education programming is likely.

Course description:

This is a third semester of sequence of Japanese language instruction. Entering students are expected to have mastered basics of the writing system (hirigana and katakana and approximately 300 Kanji characters), know elementary grammar and have a basic vocabulary with listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. This course develops the four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in order to cultivate an overall Japanese language ability. Using the course materials, which include the most frequently used daily vocabulary, students will apply what they have to their daily activity. The course prepares students for Intermediate-Level Japanese.

Course requisites:

681-102

If dual listed, list graduate level requirements:

Not applicable

Course objectives and tentative course syllabus:

See attached

Bibliography:

See attached

Notes:

• Please submit electronically when approved at the college level - signature sheet to follow in hard copy.
• The 15 and 25 character abbreviations may be edited for consistency and clarity.

Prerequisites:
681-101 and 681-102, or consent of instructor

Outline of Proposed Course:
This is a third semester of sequence of Japanese language instruction. Entering students are expected to have mastered basics of the writing system (hiragana and katakana and approximately 300 Kanji characters), know elementary grammar and have a very basic vocabulary with listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. The main goal of this course is the development of four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in order to cultivate an overall Japanese language ability. The course materials, which include the most frequently used daily vocabulary, gives students an opportunity to apply what they have learned to their daily lives. The course prepares students for Intermediate-Level Japanese.

Books and Materials (see Bibliography)

Genki 2, An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese.
Genki 2, student workbook, with CD
Basic Kanji, Vol. 2, 500 characters.

Weeks 1-3,

Quick Review of year 1 Japanese
Genki, Lesson 17
Kanji, Lesson 23

Weeks 4-6

Genki, Lessons 18-19
Kanji, Lessons 24-25
Test 1

Weeks 7-9

Genji, Lesson 20-21
Kanji, Lessons, 25-26

Weeks 10-12

Genki, Lesson 21-22
Kanji, Lessons, 27-28
Test 2

Weeks 13-15

Genki, Lesson 23
Kanji, Lesson 29

COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
EVALUATION

1. Daily homework assignments and in-class conversation (20%)
2. Weekly quizzes and work in language lab/at home with the instructional CD (20%)
3. 2 tests and a Final (60%)

Banno, Eri, Yutaka Ohno, Yoko Sakane, Chikako Shinagawa, Kyoko Tokashiki. 1999. Genki, An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 2. Tokyo: The Japan Times.

Kano, Chieko, Yuri Shimizu, Hiroko Takenaka, Eriko Ishii. 1989. Basic Kanji Book, Volume 2. Tokyo: Bonjinsha Co.
 

Akiyama, Carol and Nobuo Akiyama (1991) Japanese Grammar. Barrons Educational Series.

Akiyama, Carol and Nobuo Akiyama (1991) Japanese Vocabulary. Barrons Educational Series

*Allinson, Gary D. 1997. Japan's postwar history. Cornell University Press.

Akutsu, Suguru (1998) Ultimate Japanese. Crown Publishers.

Bleiler, Everett (1980) Essential Japanese Grammar. Dover Publications.

Brennan, John (1998) Common Japanese Business Phrases. Kodansha International.

Bowring, Richard, Haruko Uryu Laurie and Haruko Uryui Laurie (1992) An Introduction to Modern

Japanese, book 1 grammar lessons. Cambridge University Press.

Boyd, R. M. and Tessa Krailing (1992) Japanese Fundamentals. Barrons Educational Series.

Chaplin, Hamako and Samuel Martin (1987) Japanese: A Manual of Reading and Writing, 2 vols.in one. Charles Tuttle

Chino, Naoko (1991) All About Particles. Kodansha International.

Complete Japanese Verb Guide (1989) Charles Tuttle.

Drohan, Francis (1992) A Handbook of Japanese Usage. Charles Tuttle.

Hadamitzky, Wolfgang and Mark Spahn. 1981. Kanji & Kana: A Handbook and Dictionary of the Japanese Writing System. Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.

*Hane, Mikiso. 1996. Eastern phoenix: Japan since 1945. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

*Herbig, Paul. 1995. Innovation Japanese style: a cultural and historical perspective. Westport, CT: Quorum Books.

Hamano, Shoko (1998) The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese. CSLI Publications.

Henshall, Kenneth G. (1995) A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters. Charles Tuttle.

Hirose, Masanobu, Hiwako Kimoto and Kakuko Shoji (1994) Effective Japanese Usage Guide.  Kodansha International.

Hudson, Mutsuko Endo (1994) English Grammar for Students of Japanese. Olivia and Hill Press.

Inamoto, Noboru (1989) Colloquial Japanese with Important Construction and Grammar Notes. Charles Tuttle.

Japan Foundation (1993) Basic Japanese-English Dictionary. Japan Foundation.

Jorden, Eleanor and Hamako Chaplin (1976) Reading Japanese. Yale University Press.

Kawashima, Sue (1999) A Dictionary of Japanese Particles. Kodansha International.

Kodansha’s Compact Kanji Guide (1992) Kodansha International.

Lampkin, Rita (1994) Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar. Passport Books.

Lange, Roland (1998) 501 Japanese Verbs, 2^nd ed. Barrons Educational Series.

Maynard, Senko (1997) Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context. University of Hawaii Press.

Rubin, Jay (1998) Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don’t Tell You. Kodansha International.

Sakade, Florence (1989) Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. Charles Tuttle.

*Smith, Patrick. 1997. Japan: a reinterpretation. Pantheon Books.

*Sugimoto, Yoshio. 1997. An introduction to Japanese society. Cambridge University Press.

Susumu, Nagara (1990) Japanese for Everyone. Japan Publications.

Suzuki, Takao and Akira Miura (1985) Words in Context: A Japanese Perspective on Language.  Kodansha International.

Tanimori, Masahiro (1994) A Handbook of Japanese Grammar. Charles Tuttle.

Tsujimura, Natsuko (1996) An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics. Blackwell Publishers.

Wallace, George and Kayoko Kimiya (1996) Kanji Idoms. Kodansha International.

* = at UWW Library