HJAÆ0114EU Japanese Propaedeutics C - CBS (E25)

Volume 2025/2026
Education

Offered by:

  • Bachelor’s elective courses in Japan Studies for CBS-students 2022 (adjusted in 2024)
Content

The focus of teaching is on translation and applied language use. The course enables the student to communicate in elementary to lower intermediate Japanese about general topics related to culture and society.

 

Building on the two previous courses, this course will dramatically expand the range of vocabulary, grammar patterns, and kanji. Teaching is based on text- and workbooks, and students will develop their skills in speaking, reading, writing in Japanese along with grammatical analysis and translation from Japanese to English. The course provides a general introduction to appropriate formality levels governing social interaction, and there is an enhanced focus on spoken production.

 

Activities include text reading, translation, reading aloud, written and oral translation exercises, oral interaction, teaching of Japanese characters, exercises in grammar and sentence analysis.

 

 

Learning Outcome

Bachelor courses in Japan Studies for CBS-students 2022 (adjusted in 2024)

Japanese Propaedeutics C (Activity code: HJAÆ00131E)

Expected literature

Quartet: Intermediate Japanese Across the Four Language Skills” Vol. 1, The Japan Times (2020) Text- and workbooks (ISBN: 978-4-7890-1695-7; 978-4-7890-1696-4) 

Recommended literature

  • McGloin, et. Al (2014), Modern Japanese Grammar – A Practical Guide, Routledge
  • Makino, S. & Tsutsui, M. (1991), Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, The Japan Times
  • Makino, S. & Tsutsui, M. (1995), Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar, The Japan Times
Preapproval from Copenhagen Business School
Class teaching with lectures, pair/group work as well as individual presentations/speeches in which students present topics of their own choice. Classes are guided by cooperative and blended learning principles to engage each student to a maximum extent. The languages of instruction are Japanese to continuously stimulate and develop the student’s spoken fluency and listening comprehension, and English when studying grammar and translating texts. Active involvement in class activities as well as timely preparation for class are expected from all students.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 112
  • Preparation
  • 300,5
  • Total
  • 412,5
Written
Oral
Individual
Collective
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Peer feedback (Students give each other feedback)
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Type of assessment details
Internal exam with one examiner, the 7-point grading scale.
Aid
No aids allowed