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JPN 112
Prerequisites:
JPN 112 is the second in the sequence of third-year Japanese courses at UCD. The course is designed for students who completed JPN 111 at UC Davis with a grade of C- or better and students who are placed into this level based on the placement test and have the instructor's permission to enroll.
NOTE: This page is out-of-date for 2009-2010 because a new textbook will be used. The new textbook is listed in the COURSE MATERIALS section below. Other information on this page will be revised shortly.
Objectives:
In the third-year sequence of Japanese courses, students focus on presenting sets of information and opinions in connected, coherent ways. They also gain skill at modifying speech styles depending on the occasion and whom they are speaking to and about. In JPN 112 these skills are developed by making formal and informal invitations, asking for information, discussing pros and cons of traditional customs, and expressing opinions unassertively. Students are expected to develop skills for dealing with unpredictable situations and unanticipated complications in public places such as restaurants, stores and employment bureaus.
Reading in Japanese about these topics and the social conventions involved is an important part of the course. Written styles needed for different purposes and different audiences are also studied and practiced. Students are expected to retain the 664 kanji introduced by the end of JPN 111 and learn an additional 178 kanji during JPN 112.
In each unit of the course, students learn to:
Chapter 6: Restaurants
- Place orders at a restaurant
- Make formal complains in a non-assertive style
- Express opinion indirectly
- Create social harmony by modifying speech formality levels
- Reading: Read a comparison of Japanese and American tipping customs
- Writing: Write a formal complaint letter to a customer service
Chapter 7: Recreation
- Make invitations appropriately based on one's relationship to the person invited
- Accept and decline invitations politely
- Persuade people into accepting your invitations
- Talk about popular sports
- Reading: Read essays about Japanese popular sports and seating arrangements at a restaurant
- Writing: Write invitation cards for various occasions
Chapter 8: Finding part time jobs
- Make phone calls to inquire about jobs
- Ask for information about possible part time jobs
- Talk about your job experience
- Describe responsibilities you had in a previous job
- Talk about job qualifications
- Reading: Read the story of Ronald McDonald?, an early English language teacher in Japan
- Writing: Make your own resume in the Japanese format
Chapter 9: Gift-giving Occasions
- Give and receive gifts on different occasions
- Talk about purposes of gift-giving
- Ask about customs of socializing events
- Discuss pros and cons of traditional gift-giving customs
- Reading: Read a description of Japanese gift-giving customs
- Writing: Write an essay that evaluates values of American gift-giving customs
Chapter 10: Travel
- Make reservations for a hotel or ryokan room
- Talk about the Japanese train system
- Purchase train tickets
- Talk about Japanese lodging customs
- Plan trips in Japan
- Reading: Read a description of popular travel destinations in Japan
- Writing: Plan a Japanese trip and write an email to your Japanese friend to let him know your plan
Additional Reading and writing:
- Read and discuss the story "Yuki Onna" by Koizumi Yakumo
- Write an analytical essay on the roles of two major characters in the story and their moral values
- Read and discuss the story "Nagai Takashi" by Hashizume Akiko
- Write an essay that evaluates Nagai's contributions to the world
Course Materials:
- M. Oka et al. TOBIRA: GATEWAY TO ADVANCED JAPANESE (Kuroshio, 2009)
- J. Halpern. KODANSHA KANJI LEARNER'S DICTIONARY (Kodansha, 2001)
