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Languages
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An Invitation to Study Japanese Language St. Lawrence University’s Japanese Program is pleased to invite you to take Elementary Japanese 101 this fall. To learn a new foreign language like Japanese will certainly open up an entirely new world for you, a different culture that is increasingly getting more interactive with the U.S. and the rest of the world. Language is a key factor in today’s intercultural environment. In this course all four skills of language will be taught—listening, speaking, reading and writing—in two classes per week at 12:00-1:30, Mondays and Wednesdays, and in two labs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which you can choose either at 5:00-6:00 or 6:00-7:00. We use various teaching methods to help students acquire a good command of Japanese, from traditional classroom interactions with the instructor to audio-visual and computer-assisted technology, calligraphy practice, singing Japanese songs and watching scenes from Japanese language and culture films, and Animé, among others. Our Japanese Program has rich resources of material collections: textbooks, workbooks, dictionaries, videos, CDs, CD-ROMs, and DVDs. Starting with romanized Japanese, by the end of the fall semester you will be surprised to find yourself writing simple Japanese sentences on the computer, using Japanese characters. This process is a lot of fun and not difficult at all: while enjoying it, you learn. This year we will have a returning St. Lawrence student from Japan and two Japanese exchange students from Nanzan University in Nagoya, who will all help you in labs as TAs and tutors. Our Study Abroad Program in Japan is well established since 1983, based on exchanges with two universities, International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo and Nanzan University in Nagoya. After successfully passing Elementary Japanese 101 and 102 at St. Lawrence, you may go to Japan for one semester or a full year, or continue to study at SLU taking Intermediate Japanese 103 and 104 before studying in Japan. There are many opportunities and options. In Japan you can explore Japanese culture, old and new, such as Zen gardens, Tea Ceremony, Martial Arts, Taiko (Drum) performance, and even Western style art and music. For details of our Study Abroad Program in Japan, please visit our website. The Minor Program in Japanese Studies helps the students enrich their academic background. Its requirements are six courses: four Japanese language courses from 101-104, plus two courses on Japan offered in English such as film, culture, drama and literature, or any other designated courses in our Asian Studies Program that contain components of Japan in different disciplines. Study in our Exchange Program in Japan will further strengthen your Minor in Japanese. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call or e-mail me: Dr. Yoko Chiba
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