This is the first quarter of a yearlong course designed for students who have never studied Japanese before or those who have taken less than a full year of college level Japanese. Students will learn how to function in Japanese in everyday situations by learning useful expressions and basic sentence structures. They will also learn hiragana letters. Practicing with the CDs on a daily basis is required. Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.

This is the first quarter of a yearlong course. Students must have had a full year of college-level Japanese and be familiar with the grammar and first 72 kanji characters covered in our first-year textbook. It is recommended that those who have taken Summer Immersion Program enroll in First Year Japanese. Students will learn new sentence structure, verb forms and vocabulary so they can function in a variety of situations. Classroom activities include oral presentations, learning kanji and reading short stories. Japanese culture and life are discussed throughout the course.