Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

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how recent movements are trying to preserve old customs and ways of thinking. In the course, we
shall also learn a little bit of the Ainu language.
Assessment: 100% coursework. (portfolio, presentations, essays).
JAPN2026.
Japanese language III extended (6 credits)
This language intensive course is designed for students who have spent one year studying in Japan
or who have a similar level of proficiency in Japanese*. The course introduces activities that
integrate the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it will help students
achieve near-native level of proficiency.
(* For these students, a recommendation from a teacher of Department of Japanese Studies is
required).
Assessment: 100% coursework. (assignments, projects, presentation).
JAPN2027.
Comparative linguistics: Cantonese and Japanese II
Phonological transfer and pedagogy in foreign language acquisition (6 credits)
(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening
purposes.)
Potential areas of native language interference in the acquisition of the pronunciation system in a
foreign language are illustrated by native speakers of Cantonese and Japanese. Theoretical
discussions and knowledge in Comparative Linguistics: Cantonese and Japanese I are used as a
basis for training students to predict areas of interference in this interdisciplinary content course.
Languages such as English, Mandarin, French and Korean will be cited for relevant reference.
Assessment: 100% coursework. (tutorial tasks, test, and a final project on pedagogy).
Prerequisite: Comparative linguistics: Cantonese and Japanese I
Comparative phonology
JAPN2029.
Japanese popular music and Hong Kong society (6 credits)
(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening
purposes.)
This interdisciplinary content course introduces the way in which Japanese popular music was
integrated into the Hong Kong music scene in the 1980s when the influence of Japanese popular
music became highly visible. To do so, firstly we will take a close look at the popular music scene
in Japan in the 1970s and the 1980s. Secondly, we will examine how socio-political developments
in Hong Kong shaped the characteristics of the local popular music industry and affected the way it
has selected, imported, and distributed Japanese popular music. Furthermore, the course will look
at the changes in the way Japanese popular music was consumed in Hong Kong from the 1990s to
the present. By so doing, it aims to give the students an introduction to the contemporary popular
music scene in Hong Kong and Japan. The main approach used will be social scientific rather than
musicological.
Assessment: 100% coursework. (quiz, test and essay).
JAPN2030.
Japanese business, culture and communication (6 credits)
(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening
purposes.)
This interdisciplinary content course focuses on intercultural communication involving Japanese
professionals. We will explore how and why members of different groups misunderstand each
other in spoken, written and electronically mediated communication. We will consider the ways in
which people use language to claim and to display their own complex and multiple identities.