BA Japanese

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year, students should:
- be familiar with with standard Japanese pronunciation and with both Japanese syllabaries (hiragana and katakana) and approximately 250 Japanese kanji;
- be able to understand and reproduce the essential features of Japanese grammar;
- be able to read short texts in Japanese;
- be able to translate sentences and short texts from Japanese into English and vice versa;
- be able to type East Asian characters on a computer and master basic related IT skills;
- be able to respond to aural comprehension questions in Japanese;
- be able to conduct simple dialogues in Japanese;
- have a basic understanding of Japanese history, culture, and society;
- be able to demonstrate a sound familiarity with the basic concepts and information, and the practical, technical and intellectual approaches in one or more academic disciplines;
- be able to demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with these disciplines;
- be able to interpret and evaluate the underlying concepts and principles of the disciplines;
- be able to present structured and coherent arguments;
- be able to communicate the results of their work;
- be able to engage in meaningful interaction with peers and tutors within a virtual learning environment;
- appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills related to the subject area(s) studied, valuable for employment, eg. be able to gather and process information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, be able to use IT effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- the ability to appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the area of study;
- work that covers a restricted area of the subject;
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.