Effective: Spring 2001
Course Number: * 681-201 Cross Listed Number:
Course Title: Intermediate Japanese I

15 Character Abbreviation: INTERM JAPANESE
25 Character Abbreviation: INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE

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: 4
Number of credits 4      Total contact hours: 64

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Course justification:

Student demand for first year Japanese in the past seven years has remained stable at about 20-25 in first semester and about one-half that second semester. This was with a non-professional graduate student instructor 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. 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 takes students to a level where they use the language beyond simple daily expressions and requests. It 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.

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Budgetary impact:

This course is part of a four course (two-year) sequence which is initially supported by external funds. Its long-term continuation is based on student demand. In the past students expressed a demand for second year of Japanese. The hiring of a new, professionally-trained instructor is likely to increase first year enrollments which feed into second year. Supplemental outside funding by sending the course to other UW-System campus with distance education is very likely.

Course description:

This is a fourth semester of sequence of Japanese language instruction. Entering students are expected to have mastered the writing system (with approximately 600 Kanji characters of the 2000 needed to be able to read newspapers and be considered fully literate). This course develops the four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to cultivate an overall Japanese language ability. Students will continue to build vocabulary, master more serious grammar, and work on writing/reading skills. The course prepares students for continued study of Japanese (either third year at another American university or in a Study Abroad program).

Course requisites:

681-103

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.

Outline of Proposed Course:
Entering students should have mastered basic of the writing system and approximately 600 Kanji characters, and have basic grammar and listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. The goal of the course is to develop the four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in order to cultivate overall Japanese language ability with an emphasis is on reading and writing. Students will also develop more sophisticated conversational skills. They will learn an additional 300 Kanji characters, including ways to combine characters into "new readings." Students should be capable of understanding materials written for native speakers who are entering junior high school, be capable of writing short, simple letters, and so forth. The course prepares students for more advanced study of Japanese.

Books and Materials (see Course Bibliography)

Mira, Akira and Naomi McGloin An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. Tokyo: The Japan Times.
Taguchih, Masako. Writing Japanese is Fun. Toyko. Bonjinsha.

Weeks 1-2,
Quick Review of Beginning Japanese grammar, writing and vocabulary.
Intermediate, Chapter 1

Weeks 3-4
Intermediate, Chapter 1-2
Writing is Fun, Chapter 1
Kanji Practice Sheets, 30 new characters

Weeks 5-6
Intermediate, Chapter 2
Writing is Fun, Chapters 2
Kanji Practice Sheets, 50 new characters
Test 1

Weeks 7-8
Intermediate, Chapter 3
Writing is Fun, Chapters 3-4
Kanji Practice Sheets, 55 new characters

Weeks 9-10
Intermediate, Chapter 4
Writing is Fun, Chapters 5-6
Kanji Practice Sheets, 55 new characters
Test 2

Weeks 11-12
Intermediate, Chapter 5
Writing is Fun, Chapter 7-8
Kanji Practice Sheets, 55 new characters

Weeks 13-15
Intermediate, Chapter 6
Writing is Fun, Chapter 9-10
Kanji Practice Sheets, 55 new characters

COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
EVALUATION

1. Daily homework assignments and in-class conversation (20%)
2. Weekly written assignments (20%)
3. Interpret four longer take-home reading passages (10%)
4. 2 tests and a Final (50%)

Taguchih, Masako. 1996 Writing Japanese is Fun. Toyko. Bonjinsha

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