Fourth-year Japanese readings on special topics.

For students with an advanced level of proficiency in Japanese. Conducted in Japanese. Readings from newspaper articles and other authentic materials, including short stories and websites, selected to expand linguistic and social knowledge, vocabulary, and knowledge of kanji.

For students with an advanced level of proficiency in Japanese. Conducted in Japanese. Readings selected to promote a wide variety of reading skills such as scanning, skimming, prediction, reading for details, and reading for meaning. Readings include essays, comic strips, short stories, websites, magazine and newspaper articles, and other authentic materials.

Explore the fiction of the novelist Murakami Haruki in relation to the act of translation. Engage with Murakami's Japanese-language literary style and experiment with ways of rendering it into literary English. Recommended for those with an advanced level of proficiency in Japanese.