JA4511 - Advanced Japanese 5a

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

This subject continues building advanced level communicative skills across the four macro-skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, through the study of Japanese films, TV dramas and documentaries. Increased emphasis is placed on accuracy and on the range of complexity and flexibility that students display in their language use.

Learning Outcomes

• enhance further students ability to convey precise and complex meanings in a variety of situations and contexts, both in speech and in writing;
• increase students proficiency beyond the level achieved in the prerequisite advanced level subject.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Prerequisites:	JA3401 OR JA3402 OR JA3411 OR JA3421
Corequisites:	JA4512
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	JA4501 JA5501

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coord/Lect:	Dr George Kutash.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 39 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (40%); assignments (15%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coordinator:	Mrs Michi Garate, Dr George Kutash
Lecturers:	Mrs Michi Garate, Dr George Kutash.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures - (video-conferenced from Townsville) 39 hours tutorials - (video-conferenced from Townsville)
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (40%); assignments (15%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.