JPN X30 JPN 330 Topics in Advanced Japanese 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Fourth-year Japanese readings on special topics. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Japanese 320L with a grade of at least C.
Restrictions: Not open to native speakers of Japanese.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Intensive Advanced Japanese Language: Japan. Taught in Japan in Japanese. Emphasizes reading skills and conversation.
Topic 2: Advanced Readings in Newspaper Articles. 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.
Topic 3: Practical Readings in Advanced Japanese. 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.
Topic 4: Reading Japanese Literature. Japanese 330 (Topic: Reading Japanese Literature) and 330 (Topic 4) may not both be counted.
Topic 5: Murakami Haruki and the Art of Translation. 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. Japanese 330 (Topic: Murakami and Translation) and 330 (Topic 5) may not both be counted.