5 courses in the 1992–93 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
An introductory course for students who have little or no knowledge of Japanese to develop basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Practical oral and written exercises incorporating the Hiragana Writing System are used to provide a firm grammatical foundation for further study.
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills acquired in JAPAN 101R are further developed. Practical oral and written exercises incorporating the Katakana Writing System will be used to develop a more solid grammatical base.
Prereq: JAPAN 101R or consent of instructor
A continuation of the study of grammar and vocabulary through development of listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. Some study of Japanese culture is also included. By the end of the course, 120 Kanji (Chinese characters in their Japanese readings) will have been introduced.
Prereq: JAPAN 102R
In this course, students will continue to develop their language skills with an increased emphasis on spoken Japanese. In addition, students will work on improving grammatical accuracy and vocabulary development as well as continue to acquire more basic information about Japanese culture. The writing of an additional 200 Kanji will be taught. Prereq: JAPAN 201R
This course will concentrate on advanced
conversation, polite forms, and idioms. It
will provide an opportunity to revise and
practise the Hiragana and Katakana writ-
ing forms. Upon completion, students
should be able to write 800 characters and
use a Japanese dictionary with ease. Prereq: JAPAN 202R
KOREA 101R F,W 3C 0.5
First Year Korean 1
An introductory course for students who have no or little knowledge of Korean to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills along with a sound basis of grammar. The distinctive features of the Korean language and writing system will be introduced. Practical oral, reading and writing exercises will develop the students’ grammatical skills. Particular emphasis is placed on the acquisition of a basic working vocabulary.
KOREA 102R 3C 0.5 First Year Korean 2 Students will deepen their understanding of basic grammatical (particularly verb, noun and adverb) forms and sentence construction and enlarge their general vocabulary. Reading ability will be expanded and more attention will be given to idiomatic expressions and the use of the language in actual contexts.
Prereq: KOREA 101R
Please refer to Renison College for further developments in East Asian Studies.
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