• Offered by School of Culture History and Language
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Course subject Japanese
  • Areas of interest Asian Languages
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Mark Gibeau
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2017
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Readings from representative works dealing with Japanese culture and society both modern and pre-modern.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Students will build advanced language skills in reading, writing, cultural analysis and debate in Japanese and an understanding of some of the features of Japanese culture and society.

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

  • Understand Japanese material related to the course subject area;
  • Develop the confidence and expertise to engage in Japanese at an advanced level, and
  • Develop content summary skills
  • Develop information gathering, presentation and analytic skills – through group and individual activities
  • Develop academic writing and presentation skills
  • Develop higher level comprehension skills

Other Information

This is a co-taught course and any enrolment cap on one course applies to both courses combined.

Indicative Assessment

Assignments/ In class quizzes  15%

Group Oral Presentation & Report  30%

Individual Project  25%

Final Exam 30%

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Workload

Three hours per week of class time over 12 weeks.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have previously completed JPNS2013 and JPNS2015. Incompatible with JPNS6507

Prescribed Texts

Web CT Site E-Materials will be available and additional photocopied materials will be provided

Majors

Minors

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

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Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2017 $2856
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2017 $4080
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
4500 20 Feb 2017 27 Feb 2017 31 Mar 2017 26 May 2017 In Person N/A

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