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Class number:
3438
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Title: Kanji, Script, and Calligraphy |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 0.50 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 4 |
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Available seats: 15 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: F: 1:30PM-2:45PM, MC - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Izumi, Katsuya |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Japanese 101 and 102 |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
This course offers a guide to the Japanese script system (kana and kanji) for intermediate-level students and beyond. We will mainly focus on kanji and consider their history, orthography, and analysis, but students will also consider kanji-learning strategies and commit to learning a particular set of kanji over the course of the semester. In a few classes we will study chirography and calligraphy by practicing them. Students are expected to review kanji they have learned while learning new kanji. The course work includes reading articles about Japanese aesthetics and calligraphy. The course is thus intended to support and supplement Intermediate and Advanced Japanese classes. As a supplementary course, this course does not fulfill any Japanese major or minor requirements. This course is repeatable for credit. |