(BA) (4-year-programme) - The University of Hong Kong

234JAPN2056.Traditional stories in Japanese (6 credits)This is a language-intensive course designed to give students opportunities to further enhance theirreading and writing skills through close reading of Japanese traditional stories. Students will readJapanese traditional stories for text/grammatical analysis and narrate them to improve their oral skills.They will also improve their writing skills by choosing a non-Japanese story and reproduce it in awritten form and an oral form in Japanese.Co-requisite: JAPN2188. Japanese language III (Part 1) or JAPN2199. Japanese language III(Part 2)Assessment: 100% courseworkJAPN2061.Japanese for effective communication (6 credits)This course aims to enhance students’ previously acquired Japanese language skills through variousactivities and tasks, assignments and exercises. In addition to providing further training in accuratepronunciation and intonation, the course will concentrate on improving students’ speaking and writingskills. Using various pedagogical approaches, students will be introduced to the characteristics ofwritten and spoken Japanese, as well as given instruction in how to master different means ofexpression, and in how to present their ideas verbally and in writing.Co-requisite: JAPN2099. Japanese language II (Part 2)Assessment: 100% courseworkJAPN2062.Japanese through Manga (6 credits)This is a Japanese language elective course designed for students who have received approximately150 hours of formal instruction. It aims to help students further develop their basic levels of Japaneseskills, using Manga as the primary learning material. The items that are introduced in the Manga willbe expanded into various task-based activities such as story-telling and oral presentations. Throughthe course materials, students will also learn about some aspects of Japanese society and everydaylives of Japanese people.Co-requisite: JAPN2088 Japanese Language II (Part 1) or JAPN2099 Japanese Language II(Part 2)Assessment: 100% courseworkJAPN2063.Selected readings in Japanese (6 credits)This tutorial-based elective language course provides students with an opportunity to read and discussJapanese-language texts related to specific aspects of Japanese language. The course aims to enhancestudents' knowledge of the Japanese Language and culture as well as their reading skills through theexamination of works by various authors. The focus will be on the Japanese way of thinking and howit affects and forms the Japanese language. It is open to second, third and fourth year students whohave successfully completed JAPN1199 OR at least one 2000-level elective language course.Co-requisite: JAPN2188. Japanese language III (Part 1) or approval from the instructorAssessment: 100% coursework (short quizzes, presentation(s) and essay assignment)JAPN2064.The tale of Genji (6 credits)This Japanese-medium interdisciplinary content course explores “The tale of Genji”, the worldfamousJapanese classic written by Lady Murasaki. The novel consists of fifty-four chaptersdescribing Genji’s romantic involvement with a number of noble ladies who resided in the veiled