Undergraduate Foreign Language General
Undergraduate Foreign Language General
2007 Spring Term
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BEGINNING JAPANESE II
FORNLANG 102
Japanese 102 is the second semester of a two-semester, beginning Japanese language course which emphasizes oral skills but also introduces the written language (hiragana and katakana syllabaries). It also exposes students to the culture of Japan.
BEGINNING ARABIC II
FORNLANG 112
In this second semester Arabic course students will continue to learn how to speak, read, and write Arabic in its Modern Standard form (aka MSA). The class will also provide an introduction to the customs and culture of the Arab world.
BEGINNING CHINESE
FORNLANG 142
This course continues comprehensive training in elementary "common speech" (Mandarin) Chinese. It adopts pinyin (Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) as standard phonetic system and covers five hundred characters, commonly used sentence patterns, and the basic grammar in both spoken and written Chinese. This course also introduces students to the social and cultural context in which the language is shaped and used.
INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE I
FORNLANG 201
This is a fourth semester of sequence of Japanese language instruction. Entering students are expected to have mastered the writing system (with approximately 600 Kanji characters of the 2000 needed to be able to read newspapers and be considered fully literate). This course develops the four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to cultivate an overall Japanese language ability. Students will continue to build vocabulary, master more serious grammar, ad work on writing/reading skills. The course prepares students for continued study of Japanese (either third year at another American university or in a Study Abroad program).
STUDY ABROAD
FORNLANG 497
Variable topics.
INDEPENDENT STUDY
FORNLANG 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member.