Japanese I (JAP201) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Japanese I JAP201 General Elective 3 0 0 3 4
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language Turkish
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Team/Group, Role Play.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Instructor MDB Diğer Diller Öğr.Gör.
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The general aim of the course is to help students acquire basic languages skills to enable them communicate at the A1 level (Beginner Level) of European Union Language Criteria.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • At the end of this course, the students Reading • Hiragana can recognize katakana alphabet. • Can find main ideas in short texts. • Can read and understand question instructions. • Can read and understand basic texts such as personal and daily speech. Speaking • Can introduce himself / herself and use basic greetings. • He or she can tell the country of origin, age and profession of himself and other persons. • Can introduce family members and give basic information about them. • He / she can order food and drink, tell about a day using a watch.
  • Listening • Can understand the basic idea in dialogues. • Can make questions and answers over the listened text. • make determinations about the use and pronunciation of Japanese through listening, • Writing • Can introduce basic level of self, family, friends and place of residence. • Can write letters, e-mails using simple sentences. Technology use: • Taking responsibility by doing the necessary technological activities on time.
Course Content Vocabulary, structure and communicative skills at beginners level; various topics such as countries, nationalities, jobs, family, feelings, food and drink, colors and clothes and daily routines.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Meeting-Self-introduction (jobs, nationalities and country names) Visuals and VCD
2 Forming positive and negative statements Textbook 6-14, CD, Picture Cards,
3 Numbers Questions Simple present and future tense Textbook 6-14, CD, Picture Cards
4 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns (this and that) Vocabulary Asking prices Textbook 15-22
5 Describing places Textbook 23-30
6 Hiragana Alphabet
7 Hiragana Alphabet (na-ha-ma)
8 MIDTERM
9 Hiragana Alphabet (ra-ya-wa-n)
10 Katakana Alphabet Textbook 31-38
11 Katakana Alphabet
12 Telling the date and time Family words
13 Katakana Alphabet
14 Katakana Alphabet
15 FINAL EXAM

Sources

Course Book 1. Surīē Nettowāku, Kabushiki Kaisha. (2012). Minna no Nihongo: Minna no Nihongo. Tōkyō: Surī Ē Nettowāku.
Other Sources 2. CD Konulara ek materyaller

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 2 30
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 4 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Has the ability to apply scientific knowledge gained in the undergraduate education and to expand and extend knowledge in the same or in a different area
2 Can apply gained knowledge and problem solving abilities in inter-disciplinary research
3 Has the ability to work independently within research area, to state the problem, to develop solution techniques, to solve the problem, to evaluate the obtained results and to apply them when necessary
4 Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to improve systematic approaches to produce solutions in unexpected complicated situations related to the area of study
5 Can develop strategies, implement plans and principles on the area of study and can evaluate obtained results within the framework
6 Can develop and extend the knowledge in the area and to use them with scientific, social and ethical responsibility
7 Has the ability to follow recent developments within the area of research, to support research with scientific arguments and data, to communicate the information on the area of expertise in a systematically by means of written report and oral/visual presentation
8 To have an oral and written communication ability in at least one of the common foreign languages ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B2)
9 Has software and hardware knowledge in the area of expertise, and has proficient information and communication technology knowledge
10 Follows scientific, cultural, and ethical criteria in collecting, interpreting and announcing data in the research area and has the ability to teach.
11 Has professional ethical consciousness and responsibility which takes into account the universal and social dimensions in the process of data collection, interpretation, implementation and declaration of results in mathematics and its applications.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 2 32
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 2 5 10
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 5 5
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 5 5
Total Workload 100