JAPN 404: ADVANCED jAPANESE FOR PRESENTATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Description:
This course aims to develop an advanced level of academic communication to finalize research projects using appropriate research methods. Students analyze and synthesize their research findings to orally present and to write academic papers using APA style. This course is a companion course for WLC 400 (Major Capstone). Taught in Japanese. (Prereq: JAPN 300 or equivalent)
In this course we have learned meta Japanese language as well as Japanese specific communication strategies that are appropriate for presenting information to an audience at academic level in the target language.
We have touched upon a number of different language specific discourses, one of them being presenting data findings. This included words for indicating whether data is below or above a specific criterion, grammar that is necessary for making connections between that data and real world application, as well as sentence structures that are appropriate for the case of an academic presentation.
To add further, we have also learned a number of grammatical forms that are suitable for writing academic reports and papers in Japanese. We have not simply learned these grammatical forms as they are, but the comparative nuance between certain words that seperate their uses from other discourses.
In addition, in order to apply all that we have studied and learned throughout this course, we are utilizing it by writing a culminating research paper in Japanese as well presenting our findings from a bilingual survey in a roughly 30 minute Japanese Presentation. More specifically, we have worked on writing a script for our Japanese presentation, created a powerpoint that displays both the literature background and our research findings from the survey that we created, and we have also done mock presentations of our findings in order to prepare for the cumulative end of the semester presentation.
For all of the reasons that I have listed above, this course meets the MLO requirements listed in MLO 4: Research Methods and Information Technology.
Description:
This course aims to develop an advanced level of academic communication to finalize research projects using appropriate research methods. Students analyze and synthesize their research findings to orally present and to write academic papers using APA style. This course is a companion course for WLC 400 (Major Capstone). Taught in Japanese. (Prereq: JAPN 300 or equivalent)
In this course we have learned meta Japanese language as well as Japanese specific communication strategies that are appropriate for presenting information to an audience at academic level in the target language.
We have touched upon a number of different language specific discourses, one of them being presenting data findings. This included words for indicating whether data is below or above a specific criterion, grammar that is necessary for making connections between that data and real world application, as well as sentence structures that are appropriate for the case of an academic presentation.
To add further, we have also learned a number of grammatical forms that are suitable for writing academic reports and papers in Japanese. We have not simply learned these grammatical forms as they are, but the comparative nuance between certain words that seperate their uses from other discourses.
In addition, in order to apply all that we have studied and learned throughout this course, we are utilizing it by writing a culminating research paper in Japanese as well presenting our findings from a bilingual survey in a roughly 30 minute Japanese Presentation. More specifically, we have worked on writing a script for our Japanese presentation, created a powerpoint that displays both the literature background and our research findings from the survey that we created, and we have also done mock presentations of our findings in order to prepare for the cumulative end of the semester presentation.
For all of the reasons that I have listed above, this course meets the MLO requirements listed in MLO 4: Research Methods and Information Technology.