Ken'ichi Miura
Associate Director
Email: kmiura@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5215
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Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
JAPN 3401 - Intermediate Japanese II
Designed for students who had approximately 400 hours of instruction at the college level. Students coming into this course should be able to read about 500 to 800 kanji. A variety of materials—essays, short stories,TV programs, and newspaper articles— will be used as texts.These materials are chosen not only as tools for language instruction, but also as a means to increase understanding of the socio-cultural background of contemporary Japan.The aim is to get students to function at an advanced level; that is, to be able to read most modern Japanese written materials with the aid of dictionary and to be able to handle most conversational tasks, including formal situations, with relative ease.
Target OPI rating at the end of the session: Advanced Low
Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
JAPN 3402 - Intermediate Japanese II
Designed for students who had approximately 400 hours of instruction at the college level. Students coming into this course should be able to read about 500 to 800 kanji. A variety of materials—essays, short stories,TV programs, and newspaper articles— will be used as texts.These materials are chosen not only as tools for language instruction, but also as a means to increase understanding of the socio-cultural background of contemporary Japan.The aim is to get students to function at an advanced level; that is, to be able to read most modern Japanese written materials with the aid of dictionary and to be able to handle most conversational tasks, including formal situations, with relative ease.
Target OPI rating at the end of the session: Advanced Low
Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
JAPN 3403 - Intermediate Japanese II
Designed for students who had approximately 400 hours of instruction at the college level. Students coming into this course should be able to read about 500 to 800 kanji. A variety of materials—essays, short stories,TV programs, and newspaper articles— will be used as texts.These materials are chosen not only as tools for language instruction, but also as a means to increase understanding of the socio-cultural background of contemporary Japan.The aim is to get students to function at an advanced level; that is, to be able to read most modern Japanese written materials with the aid of dictionary and to be able to handle most conversational tasks, including formal situations, with relative ease.
Target OPI rating at the end of the session: Advanced Low
Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
JAPN 3404 - Intermediate Japanese II
Designed for students who had approximately 400 hours of instruction at the college level. Students coming into this course should be able to read about 500 to 800 kanji. A variety of materials—essays, short stories,TV programs, and newspaper articles— will be used as texts.These materials are chosen not only as tools for language instruction, but also as a means to increase understanding of the socio-cultural background of contemporary Japan.The aim is to get students to function at an advanced level; that is, to be able to read most modern Japanese written materials with the aid of dictionary and to be able to handle most conversational tasks, including formal situations, with relative ease.
Target OPI rating at the end of the session: Advanced Low
Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
