ADVANCED JAPANESE THROUGH AUDIO-VISUAL MEDIA

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ASIALANG 303 or placement into ASIALANG 304 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Frgn Lang - 5th + semester language Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Grasp basic ideas on some unfamiliar topics delivered through a variety of audio-visual media produced in Japanese Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate the understanding of different registers and styles of Japanese language used in different genres of media discourse Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate how visual and sound effects contribute to the creation of meaning Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze how media discourse contributes to the creation, maintenance, or critique of certain ideological beliefs Audience: Undergraduate 5. State and support their own views on some social and cultural issues discussed or implied in a variety of audio-visual media produced in Japanese Audience: Undergraduate 6. Create audio-visual media presentations on topics of their interest Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Grasp basic ideas on some unfamiliar topics delivered through a variety of audio-visual media produced in Japanese Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate the understanding of different registers and styles of Japanese language used in different genres of media discourse Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate how visual and sound effects contribute to the creation of meaning Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze how media discourse contributes to the creation, maintenance, or critique of certain ideological beliefs Audience: Undergraduate 5. State and support their own views on some social and cultural issues discussed or implied in a variety of audio-visual media produced in Japanese Audience: Undergraduate 6. Create audio-visual media presentations on topics of their interest Audience: Undergraduate