This course is primarily a course in contemporary Japanese culture, but serves as a third year language course. The "texts" will consist of contemporary written materials (books, magazines, newspapers) and visual materials (tv programs, movies) and will exercise the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) studied in the first four semesters of the language. By building on the skills learned in the initial semesters, this course will continue and strengthen the oral and aural, written and reading skills in Japanese, for students who have studied the equivalent of two years of Japanese language. Further, this course will emphasize the speaking and listening skills. It is paired with JPN 302, a course emphasizing reading and writing skills. Thus, students who complete this course will be able to communicate at a rather sophisticated level of Japanese on a variety of contemporary topics within Japanese society.

This course is primarily a course in contemporary Japanese culture, but serves as a third year language course. The "texts" will consist of contemporary written materials (books, magazines, newspapers) and visual materials (tv programs, movies) and will exercise the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) studied in the first four semesters of the language. By building on the skills learned in the initial semesters, this course will continue and strengthen the oral and aural, written and reading skills in Japanese, for students who have studied the equivalent of two years of Japanese language. Further, this course will emphasize the speaking and listening skills. It is paired with JPN 302, a course emphasizing reading and writing skills. Thus, students who complete this course will be able to communicate at a rather sophisticated level of Japanese on a variety of contemporary topics within Japanese society.