Department of Japanese Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures HKU

This is a language elective course designed to give students opportunities to further enhance their reading and writing skills through close reading of Japanese traditional stories. Students will read Japanese traditional stories for text/grammatical analysis and narrate them to improve their oral skills. They will also improve their writing skills by choosing a non-Japanese story and reproduce it in a written form and an oral form in Japanese.

Elective Course
JAPN3056	Traditional stories in Japanese	6 credits

This is a language elective course designed to give students opportunities to further enhance their reading and writing skills through close reading of Japanese traditional stories. Students will read Japanese traditional stories for text/grammatical analysis and narrate them to improve their oral skills. They will also improve their writing skills by choosing a non-Japanese story and reproduce it in a written form and an oral form in Japanese.

Co-requisite: JAPN3088. Japanese language III (Part 1) or JAPN3099. Japanese language III (Part 2)
Assessment: 100 % coursework
(Offered in 2020/2021, 1st semester)