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Course Info for JAPN - 203 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 2855 Title: Kanji, Script, and Calligraphy Department: Language and Culture Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 0.50
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 5 Available seats: 14
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: T: 2:55PM-4:10PM, MC - 106 Instructor(s): Izumi, Katsuya
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Japanese 101 and 102
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.