Advanced Japanese Ⅰ

Course Information

College Toyama College Year 2019
Course Title Advanced Japanese Ⅰ
Course Code 0100 Course Category General / Elective
Class Format Lecture Credits School Credit: 1
Department Department of Mechanical Engineering Student Grade 4th
Term First Semester Classes per Week 2
Textbook and/or Teaching Materials (Course materials) Handouts created by the professor/(Related documents) "Intermediate Japanese for Exchange Students to Understand the Times" 3A Networks "Japanese for International College/Graduate Students ③" ALC, "Cross National Boundaries" Shin-yo-sha Publishing, etc. Newspaper articles, video materials
Instructor Tagami Eiko

Course Objectives

•To help students develop an attitude to gain an interest and obtain information about modern Japan and Japanese people.
•To be able to use appropriate vocabulary and expressions depending on the content.
•To be able to read and understand logical compositions of sentences and videos.
•To be able to convey valid opinions.
•To be able to compose content logically and give persuasive presentations.

Rubric

Ideal Level of Achievement (Very Good)Standard Level of Achievement (Good)Unacceptable Level of Achievement (Fail)
Evaluation 1Can properly use vocabulary and expressions within an appropriate range when necessary. Can use vocabulary and expressions within a limited range.Cannot use vocabulary and expressions within the necessary range.
Evaluation 2Can sufficiently understand the logical composition of sentences and videos to accurately understand the content.Can understand the majority of the logical composition of sentences and videos.Difficult to understand the sentences and videos.
Evaluation 3Can compose content logically and give persuasive presentations.Can think about the logical compositions, although insufficiently, and understands most of the presented content.Difficult to understand the logical compositions and cannot understand the content.
Evaluation 4Can create accurately composed visual materials in order to transmit information.Even when there are parts of the content that are difficult to understand when creating visual materials in order to transmit information, it does not hinder the students' overall understanding.The visual materials don't match the presented conent, and hinders the students' understanding of the content so that the logical compositions cannot be viewed clearly.

Assigned Department Objectives

Teaching Method

Outline:
Learning objectives (aim of the lessons)
•To obtain and use appropriate vocabulary and expressions about social topics.
•Can utilize various media (Internet, TV programs, newspapers, magazine articles, etc.) and read and understand and summarize the information.
•Can compose summarized conversations that you wish to express in Japanese, and obtains the ability to transmit information.
Style:
Lectures (20%) B (100%), Teaching method 1
Exercises (80%) B (50%) C (50%), Teaching methods 3/4/6
Notice:
The course plan may change according to the students' level of understanding.

Course Plan

Theme Goals
1st Semester
1st Quarter
1st •Orientation: What we will learn in four years
•Self-introductions (Self-analysis: based on strengths and weaknesses)
To take an interactive approach to analyze and express your strengths and weaknesses in various situations
2nd •Self-introductions
3rd Bullying
 What is bullying? + C6:D16
To understand what bullying is through examples of bullying
To develop reading comprehension
4th Bullying
 Ways to prevent bullying
Video reading comprehension skills
Learn about the causes of bullying
5th Bullying
 Ways to prevent bullying
6th Disparities: Child poverty To learn about the issue of child poverty in Japan
To read newspapers (focusing on the composition of newspapers)
7th Disparities: Child poverty To analyze and summarize the issues of poverty based on the information obtained on your own
8th Disparities: Child poverty To summarize information onto a resume
2nd Quarter
9th Disparities: Issue of disparities in your own country To examine examples of poverty and cases of disparity in your own country
10th Disparities: Issue of disparities in your own country Presentations
11th Natural disasters in Japan To learn about the current situation, countermeasures and challenges of natural disasters
 To read TV and newspaper reports
 
12th Natural disasters in Japan To learn about the current situation, countermeasures and challenges of natural disasters
 To read TV and newspaper reports
 
13th Natural disasters in Japan To research about natural disasters in your own country
14th Natural disasters in Japan To research and give presentations about natural disasters in your own country
15th Final exam
16th Feedback

Evaluation Method and Weight (%)

ExaminationPresentationMutual Evaluations between studentsBehaviorPortfolioOtherTotal
Subtotal50005000100
Basic Ability50005000100
Technical Ability0000000
Interdisciplinary Ability0000000