Compulsory

This is a foundational course for research conducting and reporting. Students are exposed to popular genres of research publications and a thorough procedure of conducting research. They need to come up with a research objective, review relevant literature, design instruments, collect primary data, identify the findings, and make concrete conclusions. Students have an opportunity to sharpen their skills in proposal writing, data analysis reporting, research ethics considering, and academic conventions observing. Other relevant skills to prepare for early-career researchers are also included. The course fosters students’ capability of independence in research activities to facilitate their learning quality and research motivation.

The course is designed for the third-year English majored students in the fifth semester in order to continue enhancing the Japanese ability of students who have finished the courses of Japanese Language 1 and 2. This course also aims at fostering students’ ability to communicate in Japanese at elementary level. In addition, the course provides the students with familiar topics related to famous places, shopping, travel and so on.

The course is designed for the second-year English majored students in the fourth semester  aiming at enhancing the Japanese ability of students who have finished Japanese 1 course. This course fosters students’ ability to communicate in Japanese at elementary level. The course also provides the students with familiar topics related to house, time, hobby, etc.

The course is designed for the second-year English major students in the third semester  in order to introduce new language as the second language. This course aims at enhancing students’ Japanese communication ability at elementary level. In Addition, the course also provides the students with familiar topics related to self-introduction, greetings, family, etc.