James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

JA2201:04

Intermediate Japanese 1

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

13 hours lectures (video-conferenced to Cairns), 26 hours tutorials (over three intensive workshops in Cairns). Semester 1.

Staff: Mr G Kutash.

This subject is designed for those who have either completed Basic Japanese at JCU or have studied Japanese up to an HSC level.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to equip students with the skills necessary to seek and give advice; discuss hearsay; express aims and purpose; communicate successfully in reading and writing on the above topics; comprehend the main points of the story line in a film or TV drama; write summaries on the above; comprehend and construct sentences at a higher level of complexity than expected at a basic level, such as for example using embedded questions and the passive voice.

Assessment by assignments, in-class tests, oral/aural and written examinations: listening (25%); speaking (25%); reading (25%); writing (25%).