OSPKYOCT 103B: Third-Year Japanese II
Preparation for function beyond basic level in a Japanese-speaking environment by developing and enhancing communicative competence through: review of basic grammar; new grammar; reading short essays and articles with help of dictionary; short writing and speaking assignments using formal style to describe, explain, and discuss sociocultural topics; enhancing listening comprehension.
OSPKYOCT 104B: Fourth-Year Japanese II
Emphasis on applications of correct grammar and strengthening academic communication skills through: reading longer essays, articles, and novels with some dictionary work; reading and writing assignments in paragraph format using formal style to describe, explain and discuss sociocultural topics; developing listening comprehension.
OSPKYOCT 105B: Fifth-Year Japanese II
For students with advanced proficiency. Goals include advanced command of grammar, composition, and stylistics. Emphasis is on academic Japanese preparing students to audit classes at a Japanese university.
OSPKYOCT 128: Families and Work in Post-war Japan
Factors that promoted both change and continuity in the social division of labor between the interdependent spheres of work and family. How cultural strategies for organizing contemporary Japanese social life were conditioned 1) by rapid industrialization and growth and 2) by later economic stasis. Class, gender, and regional variations; role of social psychology in Japanese responses to work-family conflicts.
OSPKYOCT 122: The Rise of Modern Japan: Politics of Space and Time
Japan's transformation into a modern nation-state from the late Tokugawa period (1800) into the 1980's.
OSPKYOCT 185: Noh and Kyogen
Noh drama as a mirror of Muromachi period culture. Broad literary heritage and Buddhist precepts reflected in plays. Performance traditions such as Shinto ritual, court dance, harvest festivals, exorcism rites, and narrative entertainment. Wider context of world drama and dramatic theories of the creators of Noh. Close reading of representative plays and first hand experience of performance.
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