• 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 Second Semester 2017
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(a) further aquisition of approximately 1000 vocabulary and kanji

(b) increased familiarity with essential expressions and grammar

(c) reading comprehension and reading strategies

(d) composition

(e) greater interaction with real-world written Japanese materials

Learning Outcomes

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

Students successfully completing Written Japanese D will have mastered a large body of commonly used vocabulary, kanji and expressions. They will have developed strong reading strategies to help cope with unfamiliar texts, be able to read easy real-world materials with a dictionary and will have mastered the basic elements of Japanese composition. Students successfully completing this course should be at or around the equivalent of Levels 2 or 3 of the Japanese Language Proficiency test.

Indicative Assessment

In-class tests (8): 25%; Take-home writing tests (3): 25%; Tutorial assignments: 10%; Final Exam: 40%

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Workload

Four hours per week

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have previously completed JPNS2012 and JPNS2014 and be concurrently enroled in or have previously completed JPNS2013. Incompatible with JPNS6015

Prescribed Texts

Kamada, O. et.al., Authentic Japanese: Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced, Japan Times, 1998

Arai, R. et.al., Authentic Japanese: Progressing form Intermediate to Advanced (workbook), Japan Times, 2006

Makino & Tsutsui, A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar,  Japan Times, 1995

Makino & Tsutsui, A Dictionary of basic Japanese Grammar, Japan Times, 1989

Majors

Minors

Fees

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

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

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.

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
7245 24 Jul 2017 31 Jul 2017 31 Aug 2017 27 Oct 2017 In Person N/A

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