Maui Community College
Course Outline
1. Alpha and Number
JPNS 101
Course Title
Elementary Japanese I
Number of credits
4
Date of Outline
March 19, 2004
2. Course Description
Introduces speaking, listening, reading,
and writing skills of beginning Japanese.
Includes basic sentence structures.
Daily listening practice is highly recommended.
3. Contact Hours /Type
5 Hours/ Lecture
4. Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Recommended Preparation
None
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5. General Course Objectives
Students will develop four basic skills in the Japanese language: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
6. Student Learning Outcomes
For assessment purposes, these are linked to #7. Recommended Course Content.
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to
a. Read and write all the Hiragana and Katakana and 75 Kanji
b. Exchange basic greetings and make simple introductions
c. Count numbers up to 10,000 using appropriate counter suffixes for price, age
and telephone number
d. Talk about people’s ages, and numbers of books, cars, papers, bottles, and houses
e. Talk about prices, years, months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes
f. Talk about daily or weekly schedules
g. Express likes and dislikes
h. Explain where things or people are using location words, and describe them using
Adjectives
i. Make suggestions using the pattern “---masen ka”
j. Make phone calls
k. Use basic particles: “wa,” “ga,” “o,” “ni,” “e,” “de,” “kara,” “made,” “mo,” “to”
l. Talk about nationalities and languages
m. Ask for simple personal information about name, origin, hometown, residence
n. Conjugate verbs into Polite- form and Plain-form
7. Recommended Course Content and Approximate Time spent on Each topic
Week 1, 2, 3, 4
Week 5, 6, 7
Introductions (b)
Everyday Greetings (b)
Numbers 1-20 (c)
Telephone numbers (c, j)
Daily/weekly Schedules (e, f)
Daily/Future/Past Activities (f)
Likes and Dislikes (g)
Inviting People (i, j )
Weather (b)
All the Hiragana (a)
Location Words (h)
Number 21-10000 (c)
Existence Verbs (h)
Prices (c)
More Likes and Dislikes (g)
Nationality and Languages (l)
Personal Information (m)
All the Katakana (a)
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Week 8, 9, 10, 11 Around Campus (h, k)
Commuting Cities and Neighborhoods (h)
Buildings and Places (h)
32 Kanji (a)
Week 12, 13, 14 Schedule (e, n)
Daily/Weekend/Holiday Activities (e, f, k)
8. Text and Materials
An appropriate text (or texts) and materials will be chosen at the time the course is
Offered from those currently available in the field. Examples:
Text:
Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, Second Edition
Workbook: Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Yookoso!
An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese
Materials: Handouts and other relevant materials provided by the instructor
Others:
Video tapes, audio tapes, CD-Rom, guest speakers
9. Recommended Course Requirements and Evaluation
Specific course requirements are at the discretion of the instructor at the time the course
is being offered.
Suggested requirements might include, but are not limited to, the following:
Mini tests
Daily homework assignments
Compositions and presentations
Attendance and participation
Mid-term exam and Final Exam (written and oral)
Evaluation and Grading
Factors for grading may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Daily performance
30%
( mini-tests, homework, compositions, presentations)
Quizzes
20%
Mid-term Exam (written and oral)
20%
Final Exam (written and oral)
30%
11. Methods of Instruction
Instructional methods vary with instructors; thus instructional methods will be at the
discretion of the instructor teaching the course. Techniques may include, but are not
limited to, the following:
Explanations of grammar, followed by practice
Reading and writing exercises (compositions)
Communicative practice: interviewing, pair activities (questions and answers)
Students’ oral presentations (individual/group)