Course Objectives
Uses a wide range of media (TV programs, animated films, comic books, newspapers, magazine articles, local government PR, etc.) to analyze Japanese society as an exchange student. To provide exchange students who cannot fully utilize the resouces around them in order to understand Japanese society the means to do so. Furthermore, to develop the ability to transmit information in Japanese based on the knowledge acquired from the lessons. To instill an interest in the students as a means to analyze modern Japanese society while covering a variety of themes.
Rubric
| Ideal Level of Achievement (Very Good) | Standard Level of Achievement (Good) | Unacceptable Level of Achievement (Fail) |
| Evaluation 1 | Shows an attitude to grasp information about the various aspects of your own culture and the information provided to you from diversified standpoints and can verbalize them. | Attemps to analyze information about the various aspects of your own culture and the information provided to you but cannot get expand on them fully. | Accepts the information about the various aspects of your own culture and the information provided to you without question and does not show an attitude to think about them from diversified standpoints. |
| Evaluation 2 | Can conduct discussions about your own opinions or with summarized explanations and accurately elaborate on them. | Can somewhat conduct discussions about your own opinions or with summarized explanations and accurately elaborate on them, but requires a certain amount of time to prepare. | Cannot conduct discussions about your own opinions or with summarized explanations and elaborate on them. |
| Evaluation 3 | Acquires the skill to read and understand the written and video materials, and can handle them relatively freely. | Can present their skill to read and understand the written and video materials for each material. | Takes an extremely long time to read and understand the written and video materials, and often cannot understand them if the answers are not presented. |
Assigned Department Objectives
Teaching Method
Outline:
To grasp a single theme from diversified standpoints.
To re-examine the students' pre-existing knowledge towards Japanese society and their fixed views towards their own cultures.
To develop the ability to compose structured conversations about topics that the students wants to express.
Style:
Lectures (20%) B (100%), Teaching method 1
Exercises (80%) B (50%) C (50%), Teaching methods 3/4/6
Notice:
The lesson plan may change according to the students' level of understanding.
Course Plan
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Theme |
Goals |
| 2nd Semester |
| 3rd Quarter |
| 1st |
Modern Japanese affairs "Flow of modern Japan" |
Video reading comprehension skills
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| 2nd |
Modern Japanese affairs "Flow of modern Japan" |
To understand the concept of reading and comprehending modern developed countries
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| 3rd |
Modern Japanese affairs "Flow of modern Japan" |
Video reading comprehension skills
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| 4th |
Modern Japanese affairs "Pollution" : Video reading comprehension |
Video reading comprehension skills
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| 5th |
Modern Japanese affairs + Reading comprehension "Pollution" |
To understand the concept of reading and comprehending modern developed countries
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| 6th |
Stereotypes "Mechanisms of memory" |
Reading composition
To read quickly and accurately
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| 7th |
Stereotypes "Mechanisms of memory" |
Reading composition
To read quickly and accurately
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| 8th |
About young people |
To analyze the media's perceptions
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| 4th Quarter |
| 9th |
About young people |
To analyze the media's perceptions
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| 10th |
Gender |
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| 11th |
Gender |
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| 12th |
Conversations (determine the themes after viewing the students' situation) |
Listening attitude while being conscious of the other parties
To acquire the skill to logically structure and express opinions during a conversation
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| 13th |
Conversations (determine the themes after viewing the students' situation) |
Listening attitude while being conscious of the other parties
To acquire the skill to logically structure and express opinions during a conversation
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| 14th |
Conversations (determine the themes after viewing the students' situation) |
Listening attitude while being conscious of the other parties
To acquire the skill to logically structure and express opinions during a conversation
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| 15th |
Final exam |
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| 16th |
Feedback |
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Evaluation Method and Weight (%)
| Examination | Presentation | Mutual Evaluations between students | Behavior | Portfolio | Other | Total |
| Subtotal | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Basic Ability | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Technical Ability | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Interdisciplinary Ability | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |