Subject Area: Japanese Studies

This course presents an opportunity for students to develop reading and writing skills in Japanese with a wide variety of text genre. By focusing on language and text organisation of different genre texts, the course provides students the challenge to create/write their own text. A wide range of Japanese texts will be presented to explore how language usages differ according to a genre. Through genre-based reading of selected texts, students will develop reading skills, and later those skills will be used to write their own Japanese texts. The intention of this course is to further develop students’ acquisition of advanced skills in writing.

This course is taught in Japanese.