Japanese

This course is designed for students with little or no background in Japanese. The course presents the basics of pronunciation, orthography, speaking, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and the sociolinguistics of modern Japanese. This course emphasizes acquiring the ability to communicate and function accurately and appropriately in both speaking and writing Japanese.

This course is designed for students who have taken JPN 101. n The pace of JPN 102 is slightly faster than JPN 101. JPN 102 emphasizes acquiring the ability to communicate and function in Japanese accurately and appropriately, both in speech and in writing. By the end of the course, students are able to speak, understand, read, and write Japanese on a limited variety of topics.