JA4512 - Advanced Japanese 5b

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 authentic fictional and non-fictional Japanese prose. 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 JA3412 OR JA3422
Corequisites:	JA4511
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	JA3211 JA3221 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.