COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
Department of Japanese
Degrees Offered:B.A.
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Chair:Perng, Chuen-young
The Department
The mission and goal of the Department of Japanese is to offer a variety of flexible courses and programs to meet a variety of social needs, and educate students to be highly qualified citizens with advanced language skills and global sense.
The Department of Japanese, originally named the Department of Eastern Languages, was established in 1966, and has been offering such courses as Japanese language, economy, politics, and cultural study of Japan. Because of rapid increase of students to study Japanese and Japanese culture and society at Tamkang University, the Department started to open two freshman classes in 1973. In 1985, the Department of Eastern Languages was changed to the Department of Japanese. With a continuous growth of the number of students, the Department of Japanese presently accepts about 240 undergraduates every year in three day-time classes (about 180 students) and one nigh-time class (about 60 students). And it has been offering the M.A. degree since 2006.
The Department of Japanese was the first department at Tamkang University that started one-year study abroad programs with sister universities in Japan. Every year, about fifty students participate in the programs and study in Japan for one academic year.
The Department of Japanese holds a number of Japanese textbooks, academic journals, audio and video teaching materials about Japanese and Japanese culture and society. Students and faculty can also watch Japanese live TV programs at any time by a new satellite system. Students can also freely use Internet web-browsing and Japanese word-processing software any time with computers on new Japanese operating system.
Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Chen, Bo-tao ; Lin,Pi-shoung
Professor
Tzeng, chiou-guey
Associate Professors
Chang, Chong-ling ; Hsiao, Pi-chan ; Huang, Shu-ching ; Huang, Hsien-tang ; Liou, Charng-huei ; Peng, Chuen-yang ; Saito, Shiro ; Sun, Yin-hua ; Ochiai, Yuji ; Chung, Fang-chen ; Chen, Shan-long ; Chiueh, Pai-hua
Assistant Professors
Chiang,Wen-shun ; Lin,Chi-wen ; Ma, Yaw-huei ; Takatsu, Masateru ; Tomita Akira ; Lin, Chin-hwa
Lecturers
Kuroshima, Chiyo ; Chiueh, Wen-san ; Chung, Tze-hsin ;
Guh, Jiin-fen ; Kawamura, Hiroyuki
Degree Requirements
The Department of Japanese offers two programs for both B.A. and M.A. degrees.
- Requirements for a degree of B.A.:
Successful completion of 142 credits of courses, including 120 credits of required courses and 22 credits of elective physics courses. - Requirements for an M.A. degree:
Successful completion of 32 elective credits of courses.
Students are also required to submit a written master's thesis completed under the supervision of a faculty member and pass an oral examination.
Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Courses
A0178 Japanese Composition I (2/2) To improve students' writing skills in Japanese, this course offers an introduction to basic Japanese writing styles by analyzing and explaining contemporary Japanese phrases, clauses, and sentence structures.
A0179 Japanese Composition II (2/2) This course aims to strengthen students' overall writing skills by discussing and explaining contemporary Japanese.
A0190 History of Japanese Literature (2/2) An introduction to the history of Japanese literature. This course explains and discusses selected Japanese works of each era in the history of Japanese literature.
A0197 Selected Readings in Japanese Literature I (2/2) An introduction and appreciation of noted modern and classical Japanese novels and selected writings.
A0198 Selected Readings in Japanese Literature II (2/2) Appreciation of noted classical Japanese novels and selected works. This course does not deal with modern Japanese works.
A0212 Japanese Politics (2/2) An introduction to contemporary Japanese politics. The course deals with and discusses the modern political systems in Japan starting in Meiji era.
A0235 Introduction to Japanese (2/2) This class explains and analyzes Japanese in a linguistic manner. General information on Japanese sound and structural features are explained in the class.
A0239 History of Japan (2/2) This course traces and explains Japanese history, with a special reference to Chinese history and culture.
A0249 Japanese Rhetoric (2/2) This course explains a basic and intermediate level of Japanese rhetoric. Students also practice composing a variety of Japanese poems with different styles in and out of the class.
A0254 Japanese Conversation I (4/4) Conducted in small groups, this course aims at cultivating student interest in Japanese culture and society, and reinforcing students' basic speaking and listening skills in Japanese.
A0255 Japanese Conversation II (4/4) This course trains students to be more ready speakers in Japanese on various topics. Students are strongly encouraged to discuss various social and personal topics in Japanese.
A0256 Japanese Conversation III (2/2) This course aims at strengthening students' competence of listening and speaking of modern Japanese.
A0260 Japanese Language Laboratory I (2/2) Language laboratory drills in basic Japanese with special emphasis on listening and speaking.
A0260 Japanese Language Laboratory (0/0) Language laboratory drills in basic Japanese, which goes with Japanese Language Laboratory I and Japanese I. This course is taught by a teaching assistant (TA) with audio-tapes and/or CDs.
A0261 Japanese Language Laboratory II (0/0) Language laboratory drills in intermediate Japanese, which goes with the course Japanese II. This course is taught by a teaching assistant (TA) with the aid of audio-tapes and/or CDs.
A0565 Japanese III (2/2) This course aims to reinforce students' over-all Japanese competence by teaching advanced-level Japanese sentence patterns and daily language usage referring to Japanese literature.
A0926 Reading Newspaper (2/2) Articles of various topics including national and international issues in Japanese newspapers are introduced and explained in Japanese. Students in this course are strongly encouraged to read the selected articles and express their own opinions.
A1104 Japanese Society and Culture (2/2) The purpose of this course is to lead students to look at various aspects of Japanese society and culture deeply, and analyze and discuss them objectively and academically.
A1107 Japanese Conversation IV (2/2) The goal of Japanese Conversation IV is to enable students to communicate with more sophisticated and advanced structures and with a large vocabulary on a variety of topics.
A1531 Teaching Japanese as A Second Language（2/2）This course deals with basics of teaching Japanese as a second language, including course planning, production and usage of teaching materials, evaluation etc.
A1645 History of Japanese Philosophy (2/2) This course deals with the development of Japanese philosophy and culture referring to Chinese and Western histories and cultures. Modern philosophy and culture in Japan are also discussed in this class.
A1755 Japanese Word Processing (1/0) This course deals with the input method of Japanese characters into the computer and composing Japanese documents by word-processing software on the computer.
A1757 Business Application of Japanese (2/2) Rules and styles of Japanese in business documents and frequently used phrases and sentences in business documents and/or letters are introduced and explained in the class.
A1759 Research Method on Japanese Linguistics (2/2) This class discusses how students should conduct their research on Japanese linguistics so as to help them complete their graduation research and thesis.
F0038 Introduction to Japanese Enterprise (2/2) Developmental history, unique characteristics, various problems, and futures of Japanese enterprises are analyzed and discussed in this course.
F0051 Japanese Translation and Interpretation (2/2) An introduction to theories and practices of modern Chinese-Japanese translation and oral interpretation utilizing audio and visual materials.
F0113 Japanese I (Reading) (4/4) 50 sounds of Japanese and their symbols are introduced and explained in the class; then basic phrases and sentences are introduced and analyzed.
F0114 Japanese I (Grammar) (2/2) Basic Japanese phrases and sentence structures are analyzed and discussed in class. This course focuses more on the grammatical features of Japanese sentences at a beginning level.
F0115 Intermediate Japanese reading(4/4) Intermediate level of Japanese, which focuses on complex Japanese phrases and sentence structures based on the knowledge and understandings learned in Japanese I.
F0116 Intermediate Japanese Grammar(2/2) Stressing both explanation and discussion, this course aims to help students understand Japanese sentence structures and grammar so as to strengthen the student's writing ability.
F0270 Guidance for Bachelor Thesis (1/1) Introduction to research method of studying Japanese language, culture, and society. Rules and styles for an academic thesis are also explained in the class. All senior students are required to submit a graduation thesis at the end of the final semester.
