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Course Criteria
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These are intensive courses designed to facilitate student participation in a variety of study group contexts, including individual study and research. Emphasis is on oral comprehension, honorifics, social contexts, and reading and writing skills.
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Y. Aizawa This course focuses on reading in literary and non-literary modern texts and mastery of the remaining Chinese characters on the joyo kanji list of 1,945 characters. Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or permission of instructor.
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K. Vassil This seminar in intensive analysis of works in translation from the late 19th century to the present focuses on major works of a single author. Writers studied include Mori Ogai, Natsume Soseki, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, and Mishima Yukio. The course is offered whenever there is sufficient demand. Prerequisites: JAPN 222 and permission of instructor.
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Y. Hirata This course explores linguistic issues often encountered when learning Japanese as a second language. Topics include dialectical variations and their geographic and linguistic significance in Japan, variations in the use of Japanese by different generations, foreign accent, and factors affecting success or failure for learning Japanese as a second language. The course includes lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises such as acoustic analysis of Japanese spoken by native and non-native speakers. Texts and class discussion are mostly in English but knowledge of modern standard Japanese for everyday use is assumed. The course is also designed for students to develop ideas for senior research projects. Prerequisites: JAPN 202 and permission of instructor.
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Y. Aizawa This course focuses on readings from different fields such as anthropology, history, linguistics, and literature, depending on student interest. Class discussions are conducted entirely in Japanese. Prerequisite: JAPN 402 or permission of instructor. Offered when there is sufficient student demand and instructor availability.
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3.00 Credits
Y. Hirata This course, offered in a field of the study group director's expertise, takes advantage of museums, libraries, and historical sites in and around Kyoto, as well as guest lectures by Japanese and Western experts, to enrich classroom instruction.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This study group course examines the foundations of Japanese social interaction through a series of readings, guest lectures, and discussions, followed by several weeks of intensive study and documentation of life in one or more village settings.
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A.S. Nakhimovsky This course covers representative works of fiction by Italian, French, English, Russian, Hungarian, American, Canadian, and Israeli Jewish writers. Not all nationalities are covered in the syllabus for any given year. Discussion centers on a close analysis of the novels, comparing individual and national responses to the Jewish 20th-century experience. By including fiction written across Europe, North America, and Israel, while limiting the time frame to the years following World War II, the question of whether there exists one or more approaches to fiction that are characteristically Jewish is addressed. All readings are in English translation. This course is crosslisted as HUMN 204.
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A.S. Nakhimovsky As European Jews began to develop a modern culture in the middle of the 19th century, an important set of writers began using Yiddish for fiction and poetry. All these writers were at least trilingual: They chose Yiddish - always the lowest status of the languages they knew - because they loved it and because it was the language their audience could really read. This course looks at Yiddish fiction and poetry written in both Eastern Europe and the United States. Students study these texts both as singular works of art and as ways of mirroring the Jewish experience for Jewish readers. In other words, students examine both texts and the multiple contexts (historical, cultural, religious, linguistic) that give them shape. This course is crosslisted as HUMN 205.
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