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Course Description

Summary

In this second-term Japanese course, students will examine Japanese cultural values and create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. Students will read Japanese children’s books and watch children’s TV shows to explore and analyze how social and cultural values are represented and taught. Based on their analyses and understanding of social and cultural values in Japan, students will write their own digital book stories which teach children to embrace cultural differences as a final project of the course. Their digital book stories will be read by Japanese children at the Albany Japanese Language School, Schenectady, New York. Students will continue to develop their linguistic skills by learning about Japanese stories and interacting in Japanese through stating and supporting their ideas and opinions during discussions that focus on narrative texts. Approximately 60 new Kanji characters will also be introduced. Conducted in Japanese.