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*1 An combination class of an intensive course and a Japanese course.
| Level | Name of Lecture | Category | Day | Lecturer(s) | Classroom | Content of Lecture | Teaching Materials | Evaluation | Remarks |
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| beginner | Comprehensive Japanese A | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Mon. to Fri. 1&2 | Yoshinari, Ishii, Kido, Fujie, Miwa, Rokugo | Department of Engineering E building 5F E527 | We will study the basic Japanese grammar. In class, we will do oral practice to help you memorize the sentence patterns, and we will also learn how to use them in real communicative situation. For Kanji, we will learn the basic 250 characters. Please prepare the lesson before you come to class. | MINNANONIHONGO I ・II (『みんなの日本語 I・II』)（スリーエーネットワーク）『Basic Kanji Book vol.1』（凡人社） handouts | Review Test: 50％, homework: 15％, quiz 15％, presentation 20% | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class A. |
| beginner | Oral practice A | [2] Oral Japanese | Mon. 4 | Ohta | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | In order to get accustomed to natural Japanese, we will do discussion with Japanese students on specific topics. In addition, we will also learn something about Japanese culture and Japanese people. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class A. |
| beginner | Composition A | [5] Writing | Tue. 4 | Fujie | Department of Engineering E building 5F E527 | We will practice writing on various topics with the aim of getting used to writing in Japanese and acquiring the ability of writing well-organized Japanese compositions. We will also learn vocabulary and expressions of various topics. In the latter half of the semester, we will prepare the project for presentation. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class A. |
| beginner | Computer | [7] Others | Tue. 3 | Nohara | Informatioon and Multimedia Center | Practice Japanese by using computer. We will start from getting used to the way of Japanese input, then learn how to write various compositions and prepare documents by using computer. Some convenient functions and the way of using internet to learn Japanese will be introduced. Since there will be a presentation at the end of the semester, we will learn how to make a speech and prepare for the presentation. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class A. |
| beginner | Oral practice A | [2] Oral Japanese | Mon. 4, Fri. 4 | Umeno, Kawai | Department of Engineering E building 5F E527 | We will take some experience from our daily life as example, and learn appropriate expressions for such situations, We will confirm the sentence patterns, useful expressions and vocabulary, at the same time, practice patterns, and do the role-plays to help improve daily conversation performance. | SEIKATSUKAIWA(『生活会話』) and handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class A.。 |
| pre-intermediate | Comprehensive Japanese B | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Mon. 1, Tue. 1 | Hashimoto, Tomida | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | This lecture is aimed at students who have finished elementary course. While reviewing the grammar of elementary level, we will learn the grammatical items linked with intermediate level and do oral practice with different purposes. | SINNIHONGO NO TYUUKYUU(『新日本語の中級』) | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B.。 |
| pre-intermediate | Comprehensive Japanese B * | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Wed. to Fr.i 1 | Ishii, Nohara, Miwa | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | This lecture is aimed at students who have finished elementary course. While reviewing the grammar of elementary level, we will learn the grammatical items linked with intermediate level and do reading and writing exercises. | TYUUKYUU E IKOU(『中級へ行こう』) | quiz of every lesson: 50％, composition: 15％, kanji quiz: 15%, attendance: 20％ | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B and Standard Class B. |
| pre-intermediate | Standard B | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Mon.2 Tue. 2, Thu. 2, Fri. 2 | Ishii, Umeno, Kawaim Tomida | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | This lecture is aimed at students who have finished elementary course. While reviewing the grammar of elementary level, we will learn the grammatical items linked with intermediate level and do reading and writing exercises. | TYUUKYUU E IKOU(『中級へ行こう』) | quiz of every lesson: 50％, composition: 15％, kanji quiz: 15%, attendance: 20％ | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Standard Class B. |
| pre-intermediate | Oral practice B * | [2] Oral Japanese | Thu. 2 | Yoshinari | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | This lecture aims at training the ability of speaking well-organized Japanese. We will do practice of explaining and expressing opinions on specific topics such as introduction and explanation. We will also check the vocabulary and grammar when necessary. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B and Standard Class B. |
| pre-intermediate | Reading comprehension B* | [3] Reading | Fri. 2 | Hashimoto | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | We will learn to read argumentary articles effectively. While expecting and predicting the structure and development of the articles, we will do practices of reading comprehension,speed reading, skimming and scanning, etc. We will try to improve your reading abilities through learning and practicing various reading skills. | handouts | attendance: 20%, assignment: 50%, and performance in the classes: 30% | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B and Standard Class B. |
| pre-intermediate | Listening comprehension B* | [4] Listening | Mon. 2 | Tomida | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | While confirming the grammar of elementary level and the characteristics of oral expressions, we will listen to the daily-life conversations. Do role-play to practice the conservation ao as to acquire the skills of holding conversations appropriate to the situations. Build up one's vocabulary by listening and catching the expressions and words in the discourse. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B and Standard Class B. |
| pre-intermediate | Composition B * | [5] Writing | Wed. 2 | Miwa | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | Based on the grammar and expressions of elementary level, we will learn to write compositions on real situations of life. To be more specific, our goal is to write compositions of making a request, inviting people,expressing gratitude, etc, in the form of E-mails or letters and in appropriate ways. In the class, we will learn and practice the necessary expressions and appropriate forms on different situations. You will have to submit the compositions. | handouts | performance in the classes and submission of composition | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B and Standard Class B. |
| pre-intermediate above | Oral practice BC | [2] Oral Japanese | Fri. 3 | Hashimoto | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F 4D | This lecture is aimed at improving students' abilities to speak freely and naturally. Through communication games and role-play, We will practice the oral Japanese comprehensively. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class B and Standard Class B. |
| intermediate | Comprehensive Japanese C | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Mon. 1, Tue. 1 | Umeno, Nohara | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 2 | On Monday we will learn how to write with the consciousness of writing language and on Tuesday, we will learn how to make a speech with the awareness of spoken language. We will also combine the learning on Monday and Tuesday to switch from writing to speaking or vise versa. | 『日本語中級J501』（スリーエーネットワーク）, handouts | attendance, performance in the classes and submission of the composition | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C. |
| intermediate | Comprehensive Japanese C * | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Wed. to Fri. 1 | Hashimoto, Tomida, Rokugo | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | This lecture is aimed at improving over-all Japanese abilities. And at the same time we will also review the basic Japanese grammar. Based on the textbook, we will learn grammar and do reading practice in class. | 『日本語中級J501』（スリーエーネットワーク）, handouts | attendance: 20%, test: 40%, homework: 40％, Homework submitted late will not be count up | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C and Standard Class C. |
| intermediate | Standard C | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Mon. 2, Tue. 2, Thu. 2, Fri. 2 | Ishii, Kawai, Tomida, Rokugo | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 2 | This lecture is aimed at improving over-all Japanese abilities. And at the same time we will also review the basic Japanese grammar. Based on the textbook, we will learn grammar and do reading practice in class. | 『日本語中級J501』（スリーエーネットワーク）, handouts | attendance: 20%, test: 40%, homework: 40％, Homework submitted late will not be count up | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Standard Class C. |
| intermediate | Oral practice C * | [2] Oral Japanese | Fri. 2 | Kawai | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | The goal of this lecture is to train the ability of expressing your own opinions on specific topics to other people appropriately. You can learn from the handouts which is provided to you and contains wider knowledge of relative topics, as well as from the free discussion in class, and then utilize what you have learned in your own presentation. In addition, we will also learn necessary expressions, vocabulary,and convenient interactive response. In this way, we hope to enhance your Japanese-speaking abilities. | handouts | participation and performance in the classes: 30％, presentation 50%, final presentation:20% | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C and Standard Class C. |
| intermediate | Reading comprehension C * | [3] Reading | Tue. 4 | Hashimoto | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | We will read academic writings such as scientific reports, research papers, academic book,etc intensively so as to help master the basic reading skills. We also do speed-reading exercises of grasping the gist by looking for keywords. By doing the above practices repeatedly, we hope to enhance your reading ability. | handouts | attendance: 20%, assignment: 50%, and performance in the classes: 30% | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C and Standard Class C. |
| intermediate | Listening comprehension C * | [4] Listening | Thu. 2 | Ishii | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | We will listen to conversations on specific topics, and learn the way of speaking depending on different occasions or the people you talk to. In addition, we will also learn expressions used in conversation and useful words and phrases on these topics. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C and Standard Class C. |
| intermediate | Composition C * | [5] Writing | Tue. 3 | Yoshinari | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | We will learn how to write well-organized articles about specific topics. we will make discussions on various topics and you are required to take down your own opinions and express them through writing. Your writing is required to submit. | handouts | content and proficiency of the composition submitted, attitude in the class, etc | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C and Standard Class C. |
| intermediate above | Culture | [6] Culture | Thu. 3 | Morita | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | Culture is "the material and spiritual fruits resulting from the influence on the nature by mankind"(quoted from Version 5 of Koujien). Specifically, culture covers very wide-ranged concepts from our dailylife to religion, philosophy, art, etc. In this lecture, we will study the features of Japanese culture by focusing on the cultural phenomena of Japanese characteristics which foreign students often encounter in daily life. | handouts which are the copies of some newspaper | class participation:50％, report:50％ | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C・D. |
| pre-advanced | Comprehensive Japanese D | [1] Comprehensive Japanese | Mon. to Thu .1 | Tsuchiya, Kido, Kato, Kawai | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | This lecture is to train the comprehensive linguistic abilities of the learners of intermediate-advanced level through learning the knowledge of sociology in Japanese. There will be 3 tests in the semester. | Images of Japan（『日本への招待』）,University of Tokyo Press | performance （attendance and participation）20%, quizzes60%, others (homework, speech) 20% | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The students may be suspended from class depending on their submission of assignments. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class D. |
| pre-advanced | Oral practice D | [2] Oral Japanese | Tue. 3 | Hashimoto | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | Through the practices or debates of expressing concisely what you have in mind, we will learn how to develop our argument on the basis of understanding the opinions of the other party. | handouts | attendance and performance in the classes | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class D. |
| pre-advanced | Reading comprehension D | [3] Reading | Wed. 2 | Kato | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | Through touching with the articles read by ordinary Japanese and people of university level or above respectively, we will learn to know the difference of the articles in forms and styles, and finally reach the goal of naturally reading and understanding articles of various styles. To do this, the students will first have to decide to read them intensively or quickly according to the type of reading materials, and then they will do discussion on the articles and write reports. | handouts | performance (discussion, report, homework, etc) : 30％, tests (twice) : 70％ | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class D. |
| pre-advanced | Composition D | [5] Writing | Mon. 2 | Tsuchiya | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 3F LL Classroom | The purpose of the lecture is to learn how to write argumentary articles by studying the basic writing methods and relative expressions. Through the correction of the articles submitted by you, we will draw your attention to your problems in writing. You will learn not only grammar with correctness, but also the ways of expressing your idea and structuring your writing appropriately depending on the purposes of the articles to write. | handouts | composition of every week, attendance, test, attitude | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class D. |
| pre-advanced | Kanji D | [7] Others | Mon. 3 | Kido | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | Aiming at learning Kanji and enhancing the ability of using them, this lecture will progress along the writing of the textbook. By emphasizing the formation and meaning of the traditional Chinese phrases and idioms, we are also going to learn kanji vocabularies. Quizzes will be given to check the progress of the students. | 『KANJI IN CONTEXT workbook vol.1』 | quizzes, and test for all the lesson | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for students of Intensive Class C,D who are from the countries where Chinese characters are not used. |
| Japanese Research Student | Regional Culture of Gifu | [6] Culture | Thu. 4 | Morita | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | Modern Japanese culture is formed under the geographical and historical conditions unique to Japan. Similar to this, the culture of Gifu where Gifu University is located, is also the product of the geography and history of the region. In this class, we will study Gifu culture in depth by reading some nice articles on this culture and tradition, and by watching relative videos. In addition, appreciation of traditional performances and visit of a museum are also scheduled. | handouts and video teaching materials | performance 20%, report80％ | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for Japanese research students. |
| Japanese Research Student | Traditional culture of Japan | [6] Culture | Tue. 4 | Tsuchiya | University-wide Core Curriculum Building (ZENGAKU KYOUTSU) 4F Seminar room 1 | As one instance of Japanese culture, lectures of Japanese literatures will be given. Each student has to choose one item which is regarded as Japanese traditional culture to make research and prepare for a presentation. We are also considering to offer students opportunities to experience the real Japanese culture. | handouts and video teaching materials | performance （attendance and participation）25%, Final evaluation( test or report): 40%, presentation25%, others10% | You have to attend more than 80% of the lectures. The lectures are intended for Japanese research students. |
* An combination class of an intensive course and a Japanese course.
Category: [1] Comprehensive Japanese, [2] Oral Japanese, [3] Reading, [4] Listening, [5] Writing, [6] Culture, [7] Others