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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
These supplementary courses are designed for students who are concurrently enrolled in 10A and 10B to enable their acquisition of a better understanding of Japanese grammar in general and clause linkage in particular.
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1.00 Credits
These supplementary courses are designed for students who are concurrently enrolled in 10A and 10B to acquire a better understanding of kanji writing system and to improve overall kanji performance.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who have studied Japanese for at least four years (540 hours). It aims to develop further their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills so that they can utilize Japanese materials for research and job-related purposes, to present orally the results of their researches, and/or to pursue college-level courses taught in Japanese. Although much of class time will be devoted to reading- and writing-oriented activities, students are expected to participate actively in oral presentations, discussions, and debates in class.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to classical Japanese, defined as the native language of the ninth to the 14th centuries. The course initially emphasizes the acquisition of the basics of classical Japanese grammar. Thereafter students apply that grammar to the reading and translation of select classical texts, followed by extensive discussion of literary, historical, and religious contexts and aspects of translation theory.
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4.00 Credits
Writings in the Japanese vernacular constitute only a limited part of the total pre-modern Japanese written corpus. Until the 20th century, the preferred medium for most historical texts and male diaries was Sino-Japanese (kanbun). Familiarity with the grammar of this extraordinarily rich tradition is therefore essential for all students of pre-modern Japanese disciplines.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the historical production and reception of key Japanese literary and film texts; how issues of gender, ethnicity, social roles, and national identity specific to each text address changing economic and social conditions in postwar Japan.
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4.00 Credits
This course deals with issues of the structure of the Japanese language and how they have been treated in the field of linguistics. It focuses on phonetics/phonology, morphology, writing systems, dialects, lexicon, and syntax/semantics. Students are required to have advanced knowledge of Japanese. No previous linguistics training is required.
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4.00 Credits
An overview of the concepts of theoretical, contrastive, and practical linguistics which form the basis for work in translation between Japanese and English through experience. Topics include analysis of the text, process of translating, faithfulness to the text.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to Japanese animation, or anime, from its earliest forms (in relationship to manga) to recent digital culture, art, and games. We will analyze and study mainly animated feature films and read the critical work they inspired. We will address such issues as cultural memory and apocalyptic imagination, robots and the post-human, cities, nature, and the transnational; gender, shojo, and the aesthetics of "cute," as well as consider specific issues in the theoretical understanding of anime within technology and media theory.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
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