JPN 112 - Elementary Japanese 2

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
This course meets the Arts & Humanities General Education Requirement.

Continue to learn spoken and written Japanese with an emphasis on basic conversational skills. Expand your vocabulary alongside learning 90 new kanji characters.

Prerequisite(s): JPN 111 or one year of high school Japanese or permission of department chair.

Note: Not for native speakers. Typically offered at MC and OL; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:

Identify the main idea and some pieces of information within written and spoken conversations about familiar topics and short informational or fictional texts.
Communicate in spontaneous spoken conversations on both familiar and everyday topics, using a variety of practiced, memorized, or original phrases, simple sentences, and questions.
Present information on familiar and cultural topics using a variety of practiced, memorized, and some original phrases and simple sentences through spoken and written language.
Combine a variety of grammar structures and vocabulary to respond to a range of high novice-level writing prompts using the hiragana and katakana writing systems and 90 new kanji characters.
Formulate comparisons between the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Japanese culture and those of my own.