Course Overview

Students will master the Japanese necessary for university life and study. They will strengthen their reading skills gained at the elementary level. In addition, they will learn and practice intermediate grammar and vocabulary, etc.

Learning Achievement

Students will be able to write coherent compositions of about 400 characters that convey to the reader their ideas about things they are very familiar with.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Student must have completed elementary Japanese or the J3 level.

Grading Philosophy

Final exam 50%, Homework 50%

Course schedule

Orientation
Level check composition
Writing exercises: Introducing things
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Writing style
Writing exercises: Giving explanations 1
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Writing words
Writing exercises: Giving explanations 2
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Conjunctions
Writing exercises: expressing one’s opinion 1
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Outline
Writing exercises: expressing one’s opinion 2
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Expressions of one's opinion 1
Writing exercises: Description of graphs 1
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Expressions of one's opinion 1
Writing exercises: Description of graphs 2
Rules for Japanese composition writing:Expressions of one's opinion 2
Review
Making a booklet
Practice for final exam
Final exam
Reading a booklet
Self-evaluation

Course type

Class Exercises

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Chen Hsiang

Other information

Students are expected to submit all assigned compositions by the deadline.
Students are asked to actively participate in classes.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university