Offered: Full Year 2012-2013
Prerequisite: Japanese I or two years of middle school Japanese or permission of the course instructor

This course is for those who possess a basic command of the two Japanese alphabets (Hiragana and Katakana) and the grammar and vocabulary presented in Japanese I. Writing and reading all Hiragana and Katakana are required and we don’t use Romaji at all. The course prepares high-novice students for cross-cultural communication through the study of language through reading, writing, listening, speaking and culture; provides connections to other disciplines through the study of Japanese and develops awareness of Japanese culture. Upon completion of this Course, students should have acquired 50 new basic Kanji and basic grammatical structures of the Japanese language successfully in written exercises. Also, students should comprehend and analyze a variety of topics in written and spoken Japanese.