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: This course is not for students who are already proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Japanese.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC) and Online (OL)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring

Course Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Identify the main idea and some pieces of information in novice-high level 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, and 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 novice-high level writing and speaking prompts using the hiragana and katakana writing systems and 90 new kanji characters.
Formulate comparisons between students’ cultural experiences and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Japanese culture.