Ohmigod...we're already well into the Spring semester! Anyone thinking about the Fall 2009 yet? Well, as you know from the previous post, we are. There are some new courses slated for the department: first, I'll be offering a new language course aimed at 3rd and 4th year language students. It may appear as EAJ389, or EAJ405, but it should appear. This course could be taken in conjunction 301, or for those who have completed 302, taken in place of 410. This course will focus on building a robust contemporary vocabulary, with special emphasis on reading and listening comprehension. The idea is to bring students to the point where they might be brave enough to take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level 2. It will differ from 410, in which we read selections from literature, because the grammar points and vocabulary will be the sort that one needs for the job market, not academia.
Second, Prof. Eason will be offering a course on Japanese-Korean relations in the past few centuries. I'll let him post about the content.
The full schedule should be available on our website (www.albany.edu/eas/) sometime in the end of February. Advance registration begins in the end of March. It is never too early to talk to your advisor about your academic plans.
4 comments:
Wow, a JLPT prep course is a really good idea!
And Professor Eason's course sounds really interesting.
Makes me wish I was an student again!
The schedule is up now, albeit partly incomplete because we don't have room numbers for many of the courses. I'll fill in the blanks as information comes to the department.
I'm really excited to hear about the new Japanese level.
"This course could be taken in conjunction 301, or for those who have completed 302, taken in place of 410."
Does this mean that it will fulfill the requirement for a 400-level course?
It certainly could fulfill the upper-level elective requirement in the Japanese major. We don't have a 400-level requirement as such. Lots of students graduate before they get to that level, so we make 400-level language elective. It would be ridiculous to keep someone on campus an extra year just for one or two courses. But, we also don't want to leave advanced language students bereft of a language class. Every year it seems we have requests from one or two students for an Independent Study because they want MORE language than what we've got on the regular schedule. I'm hoping EAJ405 might, in part, serve that population, too.
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