EAJ411
春 '08, 火・木, 午前 10:15-11:35
Business Administration 214
教授: Susanna Fessler, Associate Professor 研究室: Humanities 243
オッフィス・アワー: 火・木 1:30-2:30 電話: 442-4119
Eメール: fessler@albany.edu Fax:
442-4118
授業の内容:
This is an advanced
Japanese language course in which students will read and parse selected
passages from major works of modern Japanese literature. Emphasis will be placed on improving both
students' linguistic capabilities and their understanding of modern Japanese
fiction. Class will be conducted
primarily in Japanese. All readings will
be in Japanese. Questions may be asked
in English or Japanese at any time.
One of the main goals
of this course is to help students become independent of structured textbooks
and teach them how to launch out into the world of Japanese on their own. This means that emphasis will be placed on
becoming familiar with important reference texts, and "doping out"
difficult constructions. This is the
last chance students will have to work on these skills in a structured
environment--higher education does not offer "5th year
Japanese." With this in mind, it is
the instructor's goal to provide students with the Japanese survival skills
they need before leaving SUNY.
In the course of the
semester we will be reading works written in “complex” kanji (not
simplified) and the old orthography of
Prerequisites: Students should have taken EAJ410 or have similar linguistic
experience (study abroad in
必要な教科書:
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You will
need a GOOD dictionary, not Kanji and Kana or anything else
designed for beginners. I don’t care which one you use, but choose one with
which you feel comfortable. If you have taken EAS205, then you know what I
mean. If you have not taken EAS205,
please see http://www.albany.edu/eas/205/japanese%20dictionaries.pdf
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The main
text we will use for the first part of the semester is Natsume Sōseki’s 夏目漱石
collection of short stories, Yume Jūya 夢十夜(“Ten Nights of Dream”). This text is
available online at http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000148/files/799_14972.html,
but the online version has modernized kanji and the new orthography. I have provided a digitized version of the text
in the complex kanji with the old orthography, as it originally appeared when
it was published, on ERes. It is this
version that I’d like you to print out and bring to class every day. This
version is also entirely glossed with furigana and has accompanying
grammar and vocabulary notes.
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Testing &
Grading:
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Attendance
will be taken regularly; students are expected to attend class unless
extenuating circumstances prevent it.
Students are also expected to be active participants in this class, and
to come to class prepared. Attendance
is calculated by assigning a value of 1 to each day a student attends (or has
an excused absence) and a value of 0 to each day a student is absent. There are
no allowed absences before a penalty is applied. At the end of
the semester, the student’s sum is divided by the number of days that class
met.
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Quizzes will
be on the vocabulary and grammar covered in the recent lesson.
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The
examinations will cover translation of passages from the readings, plus
vocabulary sections that ask for the reading of kanji and or the kanji
themselves (in context).
This course is A-E graded. Undergraduate regulations prohibit taking an
upper-level course as an S/U graded course.
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Attendance |
20% |
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Quizzes |
25% |
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Mid-term |
25% |
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Final |
30% |
This syllabus is a contract. The
instructor agrees to teach the topics listed below, and to grade you on the
criteria listed above. The instructor
considers a grade of "Incomplete" to be for emergencies (death in the
family, extreme illness, etc.), not for students who fail to plan ahead. The instructor does not curve grades or give
extra credit assignments. The grading
scale is as follows: 93-100%=A; 90-92%=A-; 87-89%=B+; 83-86%=B; 80-82%=B-;
77-79%=C+; 73-76%=C; 70-72%=C-; 67-69%=D+; 63-66%=D; 60-62%=D-; 0-59%=E.
If you want to check on your
performance at any point in the semester, feel free to come to office hours and
we'll run through the numbers. If there
are extenuating circumstances that you anticipate will unduly affect your
grade, it is your responsibility to speak with the instructor IN ADVANCE.
Schedule
Below is a break down of each day’s lesson. Because it is difficult to anticipate how
quickly or slowly a group will work through a text, this schedule is preliminary
and subject to change at the instructor’s discretion. All schedule changes will be announced in
class—if you miss an announcement, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me or ask!
It is my hope that after a week or so I will be able to provide a more concrete
schedule for the rest of the semester.
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項目 |
レッソン |
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一月 |
24 |
木 |
授業の紹介 |
無し |
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29 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第一夜 |
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31 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第一夜 |
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二月 |
5 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第二夜 |
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7 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第二夜・クイズ |
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12 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第三夜 |
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14 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第三夜 |
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19 |
火 |
冬休み |
無し |
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21 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第四夜 |
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26 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第四夜・クイズ |
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28 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第五夜 |
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三月 |
4 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第五夜 |
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6 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第六夜 |
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11 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第六夜 |
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13 |
木 |
中間試験 |
無し |
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18 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第七夜 |
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20 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第七夜 |
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25 |
火 |
休み |
無し |
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27 |
木 |
休み |
無し |
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四月 |
1 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第八夜 |
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3 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第八夜・クイズ |
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8 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第九夜 |
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10 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第九夜 |
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15 |
火 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第十夜 |
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17 |
木 |
夏目漱石の「夢十夜」 |
第十夜・クイズ |
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22 |
火 |
林芙美子の「朝御飯」 |
朝御飯１ |
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24 |
木 |
林芙美子の「朝御飯」 |
朝御飯２ |
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