UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES
& INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Course Units 2015-2016
Japanese for Academic Purposes II
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Japanese Current Affairs and Culture (Social, Historical and Political) at the UCL CLIE, or
equivalent qualifications/experience.
Course duration
20 x 2-hour classes.
Self-Study
80 hours in total.
Course codes
LCJA6807, LCJAG807, LCJAM807.
Aims and Objectives
The course is designed for very advanced level students requiring the language for academic purposes. The course is
taught entirely in the target language with a balance of receptive (reading, listening) and productive (speaking, writing)
skills. The course comprises knowledge and understanding both of the structure of the Japanese language and its use in
academic environments, such as lectures, seminars and conferences. The course covers academic development, academic
culture and conventions, critical thinking, reading and writing academic texts (i.e. in the students main degree subject e.g.
history) as well as other related topics to prepare students for further academic study/research in Japanese-speaking
countries. This will be related back to the student’s degree subject.
The course will enhance knowledge and use of linguistically complex structures (a variety of styles and registers from a
range of authentic academic material). Various transferable skills will also be further developed.
Course Content
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Higher education system in Japan
Undergraduate and postgraduate applications and interviews
Doing a presentation in a seminar
Academic cultures
Linguistic Structures
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Intermediate 敬語
Expressing additional information II
Temporal and topical conjunctions II
Expressions for causal relations
Advanced disjunctions I & II
Advanced conditionals
Newly appeared 漢字
Learning Resources
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New Approach Japanese Pre-Advanced Course Paperback, N. Oyanagi – ISBN: 9784931315129
Monolingual or Bilingual Dictionary
Dictionary of Chinese characters for Japanese
A selection of authentic material will also be used.
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials available for self-study in the Self-Access Centre.