First Year Japanese

5 Credits.

This course is designed for students who have no background or previous knowledge in Japanese. The course consists of two components: lectures and conversation practicums to ensure the simultaneous progression of four skills (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) . Students participate in speaking exercises and pair/group activities, engaging in interactions within an immersive learning environment. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write Hiragana/Katakana symbols, and approximately 60 Kanji; 2) Can conjugate verbs, adjectives, and nouns into past tense as well as present tense in their long form; 3) Can create sentences to incorporate locations and time with particles, 4) Can talk about themselves using familiar tangible topics in single subject sentences. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory.