japn300: introduction to advanced communication
Course Description:
This is a bridge course from intermediate to advanced Japanese language. Students expand their cultural knowledge and language by investigating and comparing a broader range of topics in Japanese. Taught in Japanese.
This is a bridge course from intermediate to advanced Japanese language. Students expand their cultural knowledge and language by investigating and comparing a broader range of topics in Japanese. Taught in Japanese.
reflective narrative
JAPN300 was essentially focused on MLOs 1 and 2, by being an all Japanese-taught class with immersive activities such as oral interviews, class presentations, kanji homework and quizzes, and grammar studies.
For our kanji quizzes, we wrote a select set of kanji per class session and submit as homework. Here is one of my scans of my kanji writing homework, in which I hope to continue to see improvement on those same kanji and my handwriting in the future.
Our final project for this class was a project about a "memorial ceremony" for someone we look up to. I decided to make my project on my high school Japanese teacher and CSUMB alumni Lupisan sensei. Please see my presentation slides and presentation script here.
In order to synthesize the vocabulary we learned regarding descriptive words for personality, appearance, and places, we also created a presentation on a hypothetical situation where we had a child and what that child would achieve throughout their life. Please see my slides for that presentation here. We also did a similar project where we created a new CSUMB sports gym. The class was based on multiple small presentations, but it certainly helped with speaking orally and retaining Japanese through repetition over a time of online learning.
For our kanji quizzes, we wrote a select set of kanji per class session and submit as homework. Here is one of my scans of my kanji writing homework, in which I hope to continue to see improvement on those same kanji and my handwriting in the future.
Our final project for this class was a project about a "memorial ceremony" for someone we look up to. I decided to make my project on my high school Japanese teacher and CSUMB alumni Lupisan sensei. Please see my presentation slides and presentation script here.
In order to synthesize the vocabulary we learned regarding descriptive words for personality, appearance, and places, we also created a presentation on a hypothetical situation where we had a child and what that child would achieve throughout their life. Please see my slides for that presentation here. We also did a similar project where we created a new CSUMB sports gym. The class was based on multiple small presentations, but it certainly helped with speaking orally and retaining Japanese through repetition over a time of online learning.