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150108 UE Japanese Writing Systems (2022S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Tu 15.02.2022 10:00 to Tu 01.03.2022 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 25.03.2022 18:00
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English, Japanese
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Writing Systems and Japanese Grammar II do share a time-slot. This is deliberate. Classes will be on site by default. If this should prove impractical, we will switch to teleconferencing.
- Wednesday 02.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 09.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 16.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 23.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 30.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 06.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 27.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 04.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 11.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 18.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 25.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 01.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 08.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 15.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 22.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
- Wednesday 29.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
This course uses continuous assessment (hat immanenten Prüfungscharakter).There will be marked activities for each text, typically preparatory homework, active participation during the reading session, and/or homework to be done after. Such activities may take various forms, from written documents submitted via and content added to Moodle to presentations given in class, and chairing sessions. Students may be asked to demonstrate that they have made an effort to engage with the texts, e.g. by reading a passage aloud, having a go at a translation, answering questions on its contents and grammar and so on.There will also be a written final test where students will be asked to translate a text that is new to them, but similar in nature to one covered in class. Circumstances permitting, this shall be written on site on a PC with internet access, otherwise it shall be held online.Unless otherwise stated, all activities, including the final test, are fully open-book, after all that is how students would use their reading skills in practice. Regardless, students must do all work on their own, without any outside help. For the purposes of this stipulation, using machine translation services or other software that may be classified as AI counts as outside help as well. It should go without saying that plagiarism is prohibited as well.There is a strict zero tolerance policy regarding the above rules, at minimum students deemed in violation immediately fail the course and the reason will show up on their transcript.Otherwise, cooperation between students, and active participation in general is very much encouraged and deemed an important element of the course, and the grade.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
* Since COVID-19 renders conventional attendance requirements unenforceable, there is none. However, there will not any make-up for any missed opportunities; in particular your active participation during reading sessions counts towards the score for the text we are reading. It is strongly recommended that you be present for the first unit.
* Students must prove they fulfil the current requirements re. COVID-19 and follow best practices, including staying home when they (or somebody they live with) feel ill or have any symptoms, or else be denied entry to the classroom. Giving false information will result in expulsion from the course.
* All students who participate in at least one marked activity will receive a grade, except if they de-register before the appropriate deadline.
* Each marked activity is associated with one of the 3+ texts we are going to read. Usually there is at least a preparatory homework to be done before the session, the active participation during, and homework to be done after, for each text, but the number may vary, and so will the weighting of activities within each text.
* The course total score comprises texts (averaged, 60 %) and final (40 %) in principle, but as long as a student scores both > 36 % on each individual text (but one, as long as there is a good reason) and this combined score is lower than the score received on the final alone, the final counts.
* More than 50 percentage points of the course total score are required to pass the course (> 50 → 4/D, > 62.5 → 3/C, > 75 → 2/B, > 97.5 → 1/A).
Finally, up to 5 percentage points may be awarded / docked at the sole discretion of the lecturer for the purpose of determining the final grade.
* Students must prove they fulfil the current requirements re. COVID-19 and follow best practices, including staying home when they (or somebody they live with) feel ill or have any symptoms, or else be denied entry to the classroom. Giving false information will result in expulsion from the course.
* All students who participate in at least one marked activity will receive a grade, except if they de-register before the appropriate deadline.
* Each marked activity is associated with one of the 3+ texts we are going to read. Usually there is at least a preparatory homework to be done before the session, the active participation during, and homework to be done after, for each text, but the number may vary, and so will the weighting of activities within each text.
* The course total score comprises texts (averaged, 60 %) and final (40 %) in principle, but as long as a student scores both > 36 % on each individual text (but one, as long as there is a good reason) and this combined score is lower than the score received on the final alone, the final counts.
* More than 50 percentage points of the course total score are required to pass the course (> 50 → 4/D, > 62.5 → 3/C, > 75 → 2/B, > 97.5 → 1/A).
Finally, up to 5 percentage points may be awarded / docked at the sole discretion of the lecturer for the purpose of determining the final grade.
Examination topics
All texts read, including vocabulary, kanji and grammar; any additional materials provided in class and/or the e-learning platform (Moodle) by the lecturer and/or students. You will be expected to know the vocabulary, kanji and grammar covered in Grammar II as well.
Reading list
All material will be provided in class or on the e-learning platform (shared with Grammar II).
Association in the course directory
MA M1 for Ecos-students
EC Wirtschaftskommunikation Japanisch II
EC Wirtschaftskommunikation Japanisch II
Last modified: Tu 14.01.2025 00:16
* Grammar I, Japanese Communication (and their prerequisites)
* must take Grammar II at the same time (or have passed Grammar 2 previously, or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of Japanese skill)
* stable broadband connection, Japanese-capable PC, technical means for teleconferencing and high-quality voice recording and image scanning
* laptop (also Japanese-capable, required for the final test)
* must meet current requirements for on-site sessions [“2.5 G” at the time of writing]After a few short introductory lessons on using Japanese dictionaries and especially kanji dictionaries effectively, students will be provided with short texts, e.g. newspaper articles, short stories, essays, …, given time to study them at home (and usually document their efforts, for instance by creating vocabulary lists, summaries, presentations, doing background research etc.). Then we read the texts together and students, for example, answer questions about them, summarise them, and/or translate them. Finally, there may be further homework designed to assess and/or deepen students’ understanding of the text (e.g. polished written translations, reading comprehension questions, essays on points of grammar).
By varying the length and complexity of chosen texts as well as the amount of annotations provided and having students work alone or in groups of various sizes, the difficulty will be steadily increased. At the same time, the lecturer’s role may change from sentence-by-sentence explanation to intervention-when-neccessary in reading sessions chaired by students.
As far as is feasible texts will be business- or economics-related ones aimed at a general audience; students may also suggest texts or types of texts. The plan is to read 3–5 different texts over the course of the semester.