Elementary Japanese I Online

Course Number: 82-175

This course is designed for students with no prior experience with Japanese and who need a more flexible approach to language learning than that offered in a standard classroom course. This course is the first part of a two-semester course sequence and emphasizes the development of communicative language proficiency through oral practice, aural comprehension, reading, writing and the study of cultural aspects of Japanese society.

Materials are web-based, with extensive use of Internet technologies for listening, reading and communication. During regular semesters, this course is offered in a hybrid mode requiring one 80-minute class per week in addition to weekly 20-minute individual meetings with the instructor or a peer speaking assistant. There is a materials fee for taking this course which is paid by credit card on first log-in to the course website. Students in this class should be prepared to participate in such studies in the course of their classwork. A student with prior experience in Japanese must take the placement exam.

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Units: 12
Prerequisite(s): None

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