JAPN 301: Advanced Japanese Culture and Communication
Course Description:
This course further continues development of advanced proficiency in interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students develop communication strategies and cultural knowledge through content-based instruction. Taught in Japanese.
Reflective Narrative:
This course helped add to my MLO 1 fulfillment. It helped with communication and presentational skills, and overall knowledge of the language and culture. In this course we learned about all sorts of aspects from Japanese language and culture. We talked about all sorts of aspects of Japanese culture, like food culture, the samurai and different aspects of religion. Then for the language part, we studied different forms of formal and informal speech, and so on. We would also frequently study vocabulary and kanji with frequent quizzes. For the midterm presentation I did mine on the history of rice in Japan.
This course seemed like it was heavily presentation based. This helps fairly well in maintaining communication skills, but it also helped me to get used to not only present in Japanese, but also just better presenting in general. One of the main presentations I did was the midterm on rice, but the other main one I did was the final presentation on Japanese pop culture and the affect it has globally, while specifically talking about the impact of a single manga artist: Akira Toriyama. I wanted to show how Japanese pop culture is becoming an icon in a global market. It gave me a good opportunity to start research in Japanese while doing a major presentation about something I personally was interested in.
Course Description:
This course further continues development of advanced proficiency in interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students develop communication strategies and cultural knowledge through content-based instruction. Taught in Japanese.
Reflective Narrative:
This course helped add to my MLO 1 fulfillment. It helped with communication and presentational skills, and overall knowledge of the language and culture. In this course we learned about all sorts of aspects from Japanese language and culture. We talked about all sorts of aspects of Japanese culture, like food culture, the samurai and different aspects of religion. Then for the language part, we studied different forms of formal and informal speech, and so on. We would also frequently study vocabulary and kanji with frequent quizzes. For the midterm presentation I did mine on the history of rice in Japan.
This course seemed like it was heavily presentation based. This helps fairly well in maintaining communication skills, but it also helped me to get used to not only present in Japanese, but also just better presenting in general. One of the main presentations I did was the midterm on rice, but the other main one I did was the final presentation on Japanese pop culture and the affect it has globally, while specifically talking about the impact of a single manga artist: Akira Toriyama. I wanted to show how Japanese pop culture is becoming an icon in a global market. It gave me a good opportunity to start research in Japanese while doing a major presentation about something I personally was interested in.