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This fall I was determined to graduate with my Japanese MA, so decided not to take any LIS courses, but instead concentrate on the JPN courses and my MA exams.

JPN 604 - Introduction to Japanese Language Pedagogy back to top ^

Professor: David Ashworth -- Syllabus (PDF)

Catalog Description: Training in the identification and analysis of general problems in Japanese language learning, teaching, and testing by examining theoretical issues and conducting classroom research.



JPN 605 - Research Methodology in Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching back to top ^

Professor: Leon Serafim

Catalog Description: Japanese-specific training in the formulation of testable hypotheses, in basic statistical and other evaluation techniques, and in the organization and presentation of ideas and data in paper, abstracts, etc.



JPN 634 - Advanced Japanese Syntax and Semantics back to top ^

Professor: John Haig

Catalog Description: Theoretical problems in description of Japanese; contributions of Japanese linguistic study to syntactic theory.

Note: The topic we studied was "Noun Modification in Japanese".