JSPN ２０１ Haverford/Bryn Mawr/Swarthmore
Time/Location TTH1:00-2:30(Hilles 111／LLC)
Instructor: Yoko Koike
Founders: Room126 tel. 896-1109(office)
e-mail: ykoike@haverford.edu
Course Description:
The theme of the course is magazines. You will study various Japanese magazines in print and on-line, and will create your own on-line magazine, the Zine, by collaborating with students from other insitutions, both in the U.S. and in Japan. The major portion of the class time will be devoted to discussion,and you will be using all four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking for the course. We will take advantage of new technologies available at the Language Learning Center for teleconferencing, e-mail exchanges, Web chat and Web creation. You will be given plenty of technical assistance. This year, in addition to the Director, we will have a specially designated student assistant for the Japanese program!
As an individual work, you will be reading two short essays of your choice from "Read Real Japanese," which are being accompanied with extensive notes for assisting your reading.
Assignments:
You will study various Japanese magazines in comparison with the U.S. magazines and give oral reports on your findings. You will select some articles to read and and to give written summaries with comments. You will also give reports on your readings in class for discussion. Within the first few weeks, you will create your own self-introduction Web page with text and photos of your choice so that the students at other sites can get to know you. The first CUSeeMe session for "face-to-face" meeting will also take place at the beginning of the semester, and it will be followed by e-mail exchanges. You will continue getting acquainted with each other while exploring your ideas about the Zine.
By the beginning of October, you will have chosen certain general categories of articles to write about, such as politics, society, sports and entertainment, etc. and you will be forming teams according to the categories of your choice. You will write at least two articles for which you will receive feedback both from your instructor and other team members. You are responsible for giving your feedback to other team members on their articles. You will send your revised articles to "the editorial board" for publication.
During the process, you will interview your classmates from other teams regularly to find out about their work and report on it in class. This will also serve as a starting point for discussion involving the whole class on what kind of Zine you would like to create. Each student will choose a certain number of vocabulary words and expressions from her/his own works for testing for the whole class. This way, the whole class will benefit from your individual work. Certain writing assignments are done without (!) computers in order for you to have sufficient opportunity to write Kanji by hand. By the end of Novemeber, the Zine will be up and running for the whole world to see and respond to.
Outside the class, you are strongly encouraged to have Japanese language partners in the area to visit regularly; the instructor will assist you in finding such partners. Conversation reports are due once a week. You will also be keeping journal all through the semester.
Schedule(English) (Japanese): Students' Introduction Pages:
Assessment of the Course
I would like to evaluate the course, especially the effect of use of technologies in the Zine project. I will give questionaires to you at the beginning, at midpoint and at the conclusion of the course. I would appreciate if you could give me your honest opinions all through the semester. I will have a researcher working with me for assessing the course as well.
Textbooks and other materials
Janet Ashby: Read Real Japanese
W.Hadamitzky and M. Spahn: Kanji and Kana
Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui:A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
*There will be a session on dictionaries in class at the beginning of the semester. Please bring your favorite dictionaries to class.
Grading Basis
Grades fall into three major categories. Attendance and participation count for one third of the grade, the assignments one third and the quizzes and examinations the last third. The students are asked to self-evaluate their work. The instructor will take that into account for the final grade for the course.
Honor Code
All work for this course will be done according to the Honor Code. Specifically, all written or other work for the course will be done by eachstudent without consultation with other students. Any exceptions to thisrule will be stipulated by the instructor when the assignment is made.
Materials Fee
All students will be required to pay a fee of $15.00 to help cover the cost of duplicating materials for course use. Haverford students have the option of charging the fee to their student accounts. Other students, as well as Haverford students who do not charge the fee, may make payment (in cash or check) payable to "Haverford College"