JAPN 300: Introduction to Advanced Communication
Course Description:
This course is a bridge course from intermediate to advanced Japanese language. It continues development of proficiency in interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students develop communication strategies and cultural knowledge to prepare for advanced courses. Taught in Japanese.
Narrative:
JAPN 300 fills MLO requirement 1 and 2. The class's main focus was to strengthen our communication skills in Japanese. The conversations that we practiced were applicable in everyday conversations with friends or family, to business situations in which one is required to use the proper honorifics when talking to a superior. In MLO 1 it requires that we students are able to communicate efficiently in three modes of Japanese communication: Interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication. At the start of the semester we started with simple things like the correct things to say when you are invited into someone’s house and the appropriate responses when people say certain things. Towards the end of the semester, our final project was to write an introduction speech for a person winning an award. This required us to speak in humble form when referring to ourselves, and the write in the honorific form when referring the the award recipient’s background and life achievements. I had chosen to write about Nobuo Uematsu, a prominent Japanese music composer for video games because it worked well with the final that I had been working on for the other communication class that I had taking at the same time (JAPN 301).
This class felt like a continuation of the classes that I had taken while I was abroad in Japan. The class ingrained in me the fact of how unique the Japanese way of speaking is. Of course in English, you wouldn’t talk to your superior with colloquial words, but there’s not three distinct styles of speaking like there is in Japan. Speaking is my weakest aspect of Japanese, and with what I've learned in this class, I hope to continue building my confidence and fluency.
This course is a bridge course from intermediate to advanced Japanese language. It continues development of proficiency in interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students develop communication strategies and cultural knowledge to prepare for advanced courses. Taught in Japanese.
Narrative:
JAPN 300 fills MLO requirement 1 and 2. The class's main focus was to strengthen our communication skills in Japanese. The conversations that we practiced were applicable in everyday conversations with friends or family, to business situations in which one is required to use the proper honorifics when talking to a superior. In MLO 1 it requires that we students are able to communicate efficiently in three modes of Japanese communication: Interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication. At the start of the semester we started with simple things like the correct things to say when you are invited into someone’s house and the appropriate responses when people say certain things. Towards the end of the semester, our final project was to write an introduction speech for a person winning an award. This required us to speak in humble form when referring to ourselves, and the write in the honorific form when referring the the award recipient’s background and life achievements. I had chosen to write about Nobuo Uematsu, a prominent Japanese music composer for video games because it worked well with the final that I had been working on for the other communication class that I had taking at the same time (JAPN 301).
This class felt like a continuation of the classes that I had taken while I was abroad in Japan. The class ingrained in me the fact of how unique the Japanese way of speaking is. Of course in English, you wouldn’t talk to your superior with colloquial words, but there’s not three distinct styles of speaking like there is in Japan. Speaking is my weakest aspect of Japanese, and with what I've learned in this class, I hope to continue building my confidence and fluency.
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