The Department of Applied Japanese

The Department of Applied Japanese (DAJ) was established under College of Culture and Creativity of Kaohsiung Campus in August, 2009. The aim of establishment is bringing up superior talents who can apply Japanese universally. DAJ places importance on optimized education, practical exercise and reinforcement of competitiveness, DAJ has targeted same level as Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1 for graduation, and established systems of getting credit without attending Instruction, double major and semi- major, small class for language training and etc, and is also continuing to strengthen internship system in Japan , studying abroad as exchange student, guidance and assistance after school, extracurricular lesson and etc.         

There are ten full-time teacher in DAJ in all, five Japanese teachers；one teacher is from Korea；four teachers are Taiwanese who have experience of studying abroad to Japan. All of them have long teaching career on Japanese education, and have more than bilingual ability. Eight teachers of them have a doctor’s degree.

 

Aims

The aim of DAJ lies in consolidating standard Japanese linguistic ability and international communication ability, and bringing up the professional talents who can apply to practical affairs. The educational objectives are as following：   

1. Bringing up the talents who have Japanese linguistic ability.

2. Bringing up the talents who have the special knowledge on the society, culture and business of Japan.

3. Bringing up the talents who have the international views, professional morals and basic intelligence.

 

Six Core Competencies

• Having the abilities that understand and express correctly by Japanese.

• Having the basic translating abilities.

• Having the special knowledge and the applying abilities on the business of Japan.

• Having the abilities that understand and adapt to the society and culture of Japan.

• Having the human basic knowledge, professional morals and the internationalizing ability to arrange information.

• Having the cooperative spirit, and be able to fulfill responsibility and observe the rules of workshop.

 

Five Distinguished Features

1. JLPT N1 level Graduation qualification. 

2. The system of finding a job in Japan.

3. Internship system in Japan ( from two to six months ).

4. Studying abroad to take a class for credit in Japan as exchange student.

5. Curriculum multiple and unique systems and three fields of elective subject

(Language education field, culture and society field, Industry and economic field).

 

Future Careers

Entering Higher School (Graduate School in Domestic and Foreign Country)

• Graduate school of applied Japanese

• Graduate school of Japanese literature

• Graduate school of Japanese culture

• Graduate school of Comparative literature

• Graduate school of Foreign language

• Graduate school of Translation studies

• Graduate school of linguistics

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Inauguration (Enterprise in Domestic and Foreign Country)

• National public official --- Civil service examination entrance,Public servant become

• Various commercial affairs --- Japanese secretary, tour guide, tour conductor, hotel man etc, Various business in domestic and foreign country.

• Academic researcher --- Continue to study, following academic study

• Linguistics education scholar --- Japanese education organization

 

Qualifications (Official Certification)

◎ Japanese Language Proficiency Test (N1-N5)

◎ Japan Language Test ( J.TEST )

◎ Business Japanese Proficiency Test(BJT)

◎ Test of English for International Communication ( TOEIC )

 

curriculum

First grade

1. Creativity Principle

2. Japanese(I)、(II)

3. Japanese Conversation(I)、(II)

4. Basic Japanese Grammar(I)

5. Japanese Listening Training(I)、(II)

Second grade

1. Japanese(III)、(IV)

2. Japanese Conversation(III)、(IV)

3. Japanese Composition(I)、(II)

4. Basic Japanese Grammar(II)、(III)

5. Introduction to Japanese Culture(I)

6. Tourism Japanese(I)、(II)

7. Japanese word processing and information system

8. Business Japanese(I)、(II)

9. Japan Geography

10. Korean(I)、(II)

11. Sino-Japanese Relations

12. History of Japan(I)、(II)

13. Japanese Listening Training(III)

Third grade

1. Japanese Reading Skills(I)、(II)

2. Japanese Conversation(V)、(VI)

3. Basic Japanese Interpretation(I)、(II)

4. Japanese Composition(III)、(IV)

5. Advanced Japanese Grammar(I)、(II)

6. Japanese Business Practices

7. Journalistic Japanese

8. Practical English Conversation(III)、(IV)

9. Korean(III)、(IV)

10. Japanese Business Correspondence

11. Learning Japanese through Movies and TV Shows(I)、(II)

12. Taiwan guide Japanese

13. Business Law of Japan

14. Research Methods and Methodology

15. Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Languages(I)、(II)

16. Comparison of Japanese and Taiwanese Modern Cultures

17. Japanese Modern Literature and Society

Forth grade

1. Communication Skills in Japanese(I)、(II)

2. Studio(I)、(II)

3. Advanced Japanese Reading Skills(I)、(II)

4. Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1

5. Japanese-Chinese Written Translation Skills(I)、(II)

6. Japanese interpretation skills(I)、(II)

7. Introduction to Japanese Linguistics 1.2

8. Japanese politics and economics

9. English Writings in Business(I)、(II)

10. Japanese for Industrial Technology

11. Field  Practice Internship (I)、(II)

12. Business Practice Internship in Japan (I)、(II)

13. Business Practice Conversation (I)、(II)

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