JPN 111- Japanese Language I – 5 credits

• Prerequisite: None
• Required Materials: Text: Nakama 1a - Japanese Communication, Culture, Context, by Makino, Hatasa, & Hatasa (Houghton Mifflin) with Workbook//Laboratory Manual - Set of 3 CDs to accompany the Lab Manual (to purchase from Media Center)
• Course Objectives: to give students the opportunity to acquire basic skills to communicate effectively in all 5 skill areas of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural competency. Emphasis is on appropriate situational usage and demonstration of proficiency in task-activities for everyday conversation, learning pronunciation and basic vocabulary, Kana syllabaries, and elementary sentence structures. Elementary Kanji are gradually introduced for recognition in each lesson, in context through vocabulary and appropriate usage.
• Student Competencies: Upon completion of this course, the student at the novice level should be able to:
  
  1. Comprehensibly reproduce the pronunciation and intonation of the Japanese language.
  2. Understand basic oral statements, instructions, and questions.
  3. Apply vocabulary and learned phrases in simple oral expressions.
  4. Use vocabulary and grammar in basic elementary interchanges.
  5. Employ comprehensible grammar in writing simple statements.
  6. Read and comprehend basic information.
  7. Identify geographical locations where Japanese language is spoken.
  8. Demonstrate an awareness of appropriate cultural behaviors in everyday situations.
  9. Recognize and produce legible hiragana and katakana characters.