BA in Japanese (41–57 hours*)

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1. Students will be required to sit a comprehensive language exam covering grammar and Joyo Kanji.
2. A required reading list must be completed, evidenced by successful completion of Japan 495, normally during the last semester before graduation.
3. Counsel with advisor to determine supporting courses appropriate to your professional goals.
4. Complete the following prerequisite courses (or equivalents):
   JAPAN 101 : First-Year Japanese. (4:5:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 101 : First-Year Japanese. (4:5:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W; Su on demand
   DESCRIPTION:	Writing systems, grammar and vocabulary-building fundamentals, basic conversation and reading.
   
   
   JAPAN 102 : First-Year Japanese. (4:5:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 102 : First-Year Japanese. (4:5:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W; Su on demand.
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 101, or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Writing systems, grammar and vocabulary-building fundamentals, basic conversation and reading. Includes introduction to Chinese characters.
   
   
   JAPAN 201 : Second-Year Japanese. (4:5:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 201 : Second-Year Japanese. (4:5:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 102 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Further practice in conversation; basic reading and writing skills.
   
   
   JAPAN 202* : Second-Year Japanese. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 202* : Second-Year Japanese. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 201 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Further practice in conversation, reading, and writing; introducing culture through short stories, articles.
   NOTE:	Not for returned missionaries.
   
   
5. Complete the following:
   JAPAN 300* : Japanese Reading and Culture. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 300* : Japanese Reading and Culture. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 202 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and writing emphasizing essential characters, vocabulary, grammar, and culture.
   NOTE:	First course for returned missionaries.
   
   
   JAPAN 302 : Readings in Japanese History and Culture. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 302 : Readings in Japanese History and Culture. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 300 or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Readings in Japanese history and literature with essential characters, vocabulary, and grammatical principles.
   
   
   JAPAN 311R : Third-Year Conversation. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 311R : Third-Year Conversation. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 300 or instructor's consent.
   NOTE:	May be repeated for Study Abroad in Japan.
   
   
   JAPAN 321 : Reading Modern Documentary Styles. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 321 : Reading Modern Documentary Styles. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Readings in modern documentary styles, emphasizing reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary building.
   
   
   JAPAN 322 : Reading Modern Short Fiction. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 322 : Reading Modern Short Fiction. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Readings in modern short fiction, emphasizing grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary building, and stylistic analysis.
   
   
   JAPAN 411 : Advanced Japanese Pragmatics. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 411 : Advanced Japanese Pragmatics. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 311, 321, 322.
   DESCRIPTION:	Advanced skills in speaking and writing.
   
   
   JAPAN 441 : Introduction to Classical Japanese. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 441 : Introduction to Classical Japanese. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 321 or 322.
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading of premodern texts, emphasizing grammar and syntax, and showing differences from and influences on the modern idiom.
   
   
   JAPAN 443 : Advanced Documentary Style. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 443 : Advanced Documentary Style. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 321, 322; or equivalents.
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussion of modern expository texts; developing advanced listening skills using authentic materials.
   
   
   JAPAN 444 : Reading Modern Japan. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 444 : Reading Modern Japan. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 321, 322; or equivalents.
   DESCRIPTION:	Fictional texts from major twentieth-century authors. Texts primarily in Japanese.
   
   
   JAPAN 495 : Senior Seminar. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 495 : Senior Seminar. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Department approval.
   DESCRIPTION:	Capstone course for the Japanese major.
   NOTE:	Required of all majors. To be taken the last semester prior to graduation.
   
   
6. Complete one course from the following:
   JAPAN 325 : Japanese Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 325 : Japanese Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302.
   DESCRIPTION:	General overview of grammar and its practical application in composition.
   
   
   JAPAN 326 : Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and English. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 326 : Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and English. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302.
   DESCRIPTION:	Contrastive overview of Japanese and English phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse.
   
   
7. Complete one course from the following:
   JAPAN 350* : Japanese Literature in Translation--Eighth Through Sixteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 350* : Japanese Literature in Translation--Eighth Through Sixteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussing selected topics in Japanese literature (narrative, lyric, drama) from 700 through 1600 (Nara, Heian, and medieval periods).
   
   
   JAPAN 351* : Japanese Literature in Translation--Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 351* : Japanese Literature in Translation--Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussing selected topics in Japanese literature (narrative, lyric, drama) from 1600 through 1900 (Edo and Meiji periods).
   
   
   JAPAN 352* : Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Era. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 352* : Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Era. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussing selected topics in Japanese literature (narrative, lyric, drama) from Meiji period to the present.
   
   
8. Complete six hours from the following:
   JAPAN 325 : Japanese Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 325 : Japanese Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302.
   DESCRIPTION:	General overview of grammar and its practical application in composition.
   
   
   JAPAN 326 : Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and English. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 326 : Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and English. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302.
   DESCRIPTION:	Contrastive overview of Japanese and English phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse.
   
   
   JAPAN 345 : Traditional Japanese Culture. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 345 : Traditional Japanese Culture. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W; Sp on demand.
   DESCRIPTION:	General survey emphasizing aesthetics, religion, and value systems. All readings in English.
   
   
   JAPAN 350 : Japanese Literature in Translation--Eighth Through Sixteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 350 : Japanese Literature in Translation--Eighth Through Sixteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussing selected topics in Japanese literature (narrative, lyric, drama) from 700 through 1600 (Nara, Heian, and medieval periods).
   
   
   JAPAN 351 : Japanese Literature in Translation--Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 351 : Japanese Literature in Translation--Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussing selected topics in Japanese literature (narrative, lyric, drama) from 1600 through 1900 (Edo and Meiji periods).
   
   
   JAPAN 352 : Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Era. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 352 : Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Era. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Reading and discussing selected topics in Japanese literature (narrative, lyric, drama) from Meiji period to the present.
   
   
   JAPAN 377 : Japanese Language Teaching Procedures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 377 : Japanese Language Teaching Procedures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 302 or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Acquiring knowledge and skills specific to teaching of Japanese as a foreign language. Conducted in Japanese and English.
   
   
   Optionally, one of the following may be substituted for Japan 345:
   HIST 343 : Traditional Japan. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 343 : Traditional Japan. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Political, social, religious, and cultural developments to ca. 1700.
   
   
   HIST 344 : Modern Japan. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 344 : Modern Japan. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Main themes in Japanese history from Tokugawa times to the present.
   
   
   PL SC 354 : Japan: Government and Politics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PL SC 354 : Japan: Government and Politics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:	Structure and behavior of politics; contemporary problems.
   NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.
   
   
   PL SC 386 : Japanese Foreign Policy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PL SC 386 : Japanese Foreign Policy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   Process and outcomes of Japan's foreign policy; analysis of its relations with other nations in a historical and contemporary setting.
   
   
   JAPAN 390 : Japanese for Special Purposes. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   JAPAN 390 : Japanese for Special Purposes. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   PREREQUISITE:	Japan 321 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Readings, video materials, discussions, and projects in content areas related specifically to business, science, and technology.
   
   

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