Students who are not going to Japan as part of Japanese Language & Culture can continue their studies in the program on-campus during the spring quarter. Students will be able to continue Japanese Language study at one of two different levels. A weekly book and film seminar will be offered. And each student will be able to pursue an 8-credit individual research project.
Students will spend the first half of the spring quarter (until May 1st) working with John Cushing, and the second half with Setsuko Tsutsumi, since each faculty member will be on campus for half the quarter and in Japan for the other half.
All students intending to pursue
this option are expected to attend a meeting at 11am, on Monday, March
31st, in the lobby outside of Setsuko Tsutsumi's office, room
3262, Lab II.
Students who have been in JL&C's Beginning Japanese, Level 1 class during fall and winter quarters can continue seamlessly in Tomoko's evening class, which meets from 7pm-9pm, Mondays and Wednesdays in Library 2220. Simply go to the first class on March 31st.
Students who have been in Tomoko's Advanced Beginning Japanese, class during fall and winter quarters can continue seamlessly in her evening class, which meets from 5pm-7pm, Mondays and Wednesdays in Library 2220. Simply go to the first class on March 31st.
Tutorial sessions for students continuing
their study of Japanese will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3-5pm.
The room will be Lab II, Room 3270 (the fishbowl seminar room on the third
floor of Lab II). Students are expected to attend 4 hours of tutorial each
week.
Seminars will cover the following books and films:
April 9: T.R. Reid,
Confucius
Lives Next Door (ISBN 0679777601)
[This book was in stock at amazon.com on 3/24/3.]
April 23: Robert Whiting,
You Gotta Have Wa (ISBN 0-679-72947-X)
[This book was in stock at amazon.com on 3/24/3.]
April 30: Kobo Abe, Beyond
the Curve (ISBN 4770016905)
[This book was not in stock at amazon.com on 3/24/3.]
May 7:
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (ISBN 037571894X)
[This book was in stock at amazon.com on 3/24/3.]
Note: This seminar will be facilitated by Ben Baldwin.
May 14: No seminar. Work on your research project this week.
May 21: Film: TBA.
May 28: Banana
Yoshimoto, Kitchen (ISBN 0671880187)
[This book was in stock at amazon.com on 3/24/3.]
The books listed have not
been ordered at Evergreen's bookstore, and each student is responsible
for obtaining his or her own copy to read before the scheduled seminar.
Each student is expected to bring a written tentative project proposal to the first class meeting at 11am, on Monday, March 31st, in the lobby outside of Setsuko Tsutsumi's office, room 3262, Lab II. The proposal should explain in some detail what research will be done, how the results will be presented, what resources the student expects to use, and a timeline showing milestones for the research project.
Each week students will be expected to provide a progress report on their project. A written outline of the paper will be due at the April 30th seminar. The final result of the project should be a major research paper, plus a 10-15 minute oral presentation to be given to the entire class on June 4th. (Project presentations will include both those students in this part of the program and the students who have been to Japan.)
Students should understand that an 8-credit research project is a major undertaking. A standard rule of thumb for assigning credit to classes is that each quarter credit hour represents ten hours of class time plus twenty hours of preparation time outside of class. By that standard, 8 credits represents about 240 hours of work. For comparison, a full-time job has 40 hours in a standard work week. So you should think of your project as six weeks of solid work. You can't leave this until the last week. And the result should be a major paper, fully researched, documented, and carefully written.