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Course Description

Summary

This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation.  In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others.  Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan, how those cultural values are taught, and how gender differences are depicted in children’s books and animation.  Students will continue to develop their skills by interacting in Japanese through stating and supporting their opinions during discussions that focus on narrative texts.  Approximately 60 new Kanji will be introduced.  As a part of the course, students are required to read/perform Japanese children’s books to children at the Albany Japanese Language School, Schenectady, New York.  As the final project of the course, students will write their own children’s book in Japanese. Corequisite: Students are required to attend Language Series.