UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES
& INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Course Units 2015-2016
Japanese for Academic Purposes I and II
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Japanese Business and Current Affairs at the UCL CLIE, have completed some post-‘A’ level
training or spent some time in the country actively using the language.
Course duration
40 x 2-hour classes.
Self-Study
160 hours in total.
Course codes
LCJA6867, LCJAG867, LCJAM867.
Aims and Objectives
The course is designed for 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 seminor
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.