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Effective Term:
Summer 2014 through Summer 2021

Course Number:
JPN 101
Course Title:
First Year Japanese
Credit Hours:
5
Lecture Hours:
50
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Introduces Japanese language and culture. Emphasizes effective communicative skills in written and spoken language. Examines the practice, product and perspective of Japanese culture. The first course of a three-course sequence. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Apply basic understanding of the nature of tonal Japanese language in tone and pitch.
2. Exchange basic greetings and communicate in predictable settings with appropriate vocabulary.
3. Apply basic cultural understandings and recognize cultural values when interacting with native speakers of Japanese and authentic
texts.
4. Use an understanding of basic Japanese syntactic system to read and compose simple colloquial Japanese texts in Japanese Kana
syllabaries.

Integrative Learning

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:

  1. Active participation in class

  2. Individual presentations

  3. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading, writing, cultural, and aural competencies, including reading and and writing of syllabaries

  4. Oral interviews with partner or instructor

  5. In class, interactive student role-plays

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Include all or most of the following:

  1. Greetings, introductions and leave-takings

  2. Age, birth month, and nationality

  3. Location, provinces and towns within Tokyo district

  4. Japanese last names

  5. Time, weather, telephone numbers and price

  6. Academic subjects and majors

  7. Verbs in non-past, mid-level formal speech or Masu-form

  8. Verbs in past, mid-level formal speech, Masu-form

  9. Numbers, native Japanese and Sino-Japanese system

  10. Single particles

  11. Predicate using the Copula

  12. Interrogatives

  13. Verbs in gerund

  14. Personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns

Competencies and Skills

  1. Manages introductions, leave taking, and basic formulaic exchanges including comments on weather in a culturally appropriate manner.

  2. Exchanges basic personal information.

  3. Expresses time, telephone numbers, price, and days of the week.

  4. Makes statements about daily activities, and likes and dislikes.

  5. Expresses future activities.

  6. Expresses past activities.

  7. Recognizes basic linguistic and cultural differences between non-Indo-European and Indo-European worlds.

  8. Formulates simple questions and answers.

  9. Identifies and names people and objects.

  10. Writes lists and discrete sentences using syllabaries and a few Kanji.

  11. Reads for general meanings in texts using some cognates.