PEAK senior students and exchange (USTEP/KOMSTEP) students at the designated level (L4-5) are eligible to take this course.The aim of this course is to help students develop academic literacy of Japanese language and acquire basic knowledge of Japan such as geography, society and current affairs.
Specifically, by the end of the course, students are expected to be able to
1) increase their vocabulary with special reference to proper nouns such as names of places etc. and background knowledge related to Japanese studies,
2) understand the way to develop their questions or interests about Japan into academic research questions,
3) collect relevant information in terms of their own research questions,
4) summarize the findings and their own ideas with simple Japanese grammar and vocabulary, and
5) express their own view in both speech and essay.