5 courses in the 1994–95 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
JAPAN 101RFirst Year Japanese 1F,W,S 3C,1L 0.5
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 ta 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.
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.
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