EIGHTH SEMESTER ASIAN LANGUAGE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ASIALANG 421 or placement into ASIALANG 422 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate with accuracy and fluency in formal and informal settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives in the target language. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Sustain conversations and lead discussions on diverse topics, including unfamiliar ones. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Write extensively about a variety of topics with significant precision and detail in the target language. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Handle analytical tasks, such as developing arguments and constructing hypotheses. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Deliver presentations tailored to diverse audiences and adapt register culturally. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Identify main ideas and significant details in narrative and descriptive written and oral discourse of any length, as well as complex ones in the target language. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Infer meaning from texts on unfamiliar topics or situations. Audience: Graduate 8. Analyze speaker/author-intended inferences. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate with accuracy and fluency in formal and informal settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives in the target language. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Sustain conversations and lead discussions on diverse topics, including unfamiliar ones. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Write extensively about a variety of topics with significant precision and detail in the target language. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Handle analytical tasks, such as developing arguments and constructing hypotheses. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Deliver presentations tailored to diverse audiences and adapt register culturally. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Identify main ideas and significant details in narrative and descriptive written and oral discourse of any length, as well as complex ones in the target language. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Infer meaning from texts on unfamiliar topics or situations. Audience: Graduate 8. Analyze speaker/author-intended inferences. Audience: Graduate