This is a bridge course from intermediate to advanced Japanese language. Students expand their cultural knowledge and language by investigating and comparing a broader range of topics in Japanese. Taught in Japanese.
This class was designed to be the standard second semester of the second year of college level Japanese. It satisfied MLO1. But, honestly, I do not remember exactly what we studied in this class. The reason for this when I took 102 in Spring of 2019, Ogaki-sensei saw that I knew the material and was competent of my use of it. This is because when I transferred here I had already taken the entirety of the first year of Japanese at Foothill, but was unable to start taking the second year the semester I transferred as the class was full and none of the professors knew me and were willing to make an exception for me to take the course beyond capacity. So when Spring semester rolled around I signed up for 102 because at that point it had been a whole two years since I had taken a Japanese course and I was worried about losing what I had learned. Thankfully taking that class allowed me to brush up on what I had forgotten and strengthen what I knew.
But Ogaki-sensei thought that because of how I handled myself in that class I would be able to skip 201 and go straight to 300. Which too this day I do not understand why this class was 300 and not 202 but that is beside the point. However, CSUMB does not use a textbook exactly for the first two years and instead, uses a course binder of homework compiled and created by the professors. So that summer I spent studying and cramming the entirety of Genki II because I did not know exactly where the course would break between the two semesters and what would be moved around and different. I used Genki II simply out of the convenience of the fact that I already had it, as I had bought it at Foothill expecting that I would be able to take the second year there as well, before discovering that it completely conflicted with my work schedule in a way that I could not work around. I thankfully had someone who I met with for a few hours every weekday for about 6 weeks to make sure I stayed on task and explain what I did not understand. But that meant when I went into this class, yet again I was completely ahead of the coursework. And regretfully mostly cruised through the class and cannot remember exactly what was taught in the class. I do however remember studying keigo in this class which I enjoyed.
This class was designed to be the standard second semester of the second year of college level Japanese. It satisfied MLO1. But, honestly, I do not remember exactly what we studied in this class. The reason for this when I took 102 in Spring of 2019, Ogaki-sensei saw that I knew the material and was competent of my use of it. This is because when I transferred here I had already taken the entirety of the first year of Japanese at Foothill, but was unable to start taking the second year the semester I transferred as the class was full and none of the professors knew me and were willing to make an exception for me to take the course beyond capacity. So when Spring semester rolled around I signed up for 102 because at that point it had been a whole two years since I had taken a Japanese course and I was worried about losing what I had learned. Thankfully taking that class allowed me to brush up on what I had forgotten and strengthen what I knew.
But Ogaki-sensei thought that because of how I handled myself in that class I would be able to skip 201 and go straight to 300. Which too this day I do not understand why this class was 300 and not 202 but that is beside the point. However, CSUMB does not use a textbook exactly for the first two years and instead, uses a course binder of homework compiled and created by the professors. So that summer I spent studying and cramming the entirety of Genki II because I did not know exactly where the course would break between the two semesters and what would be moved around and different. I used Genki II simply out of the convenience of the fact that I already had it, as I had bought it at Foothill expecting that I would be able to take the second year there as well, before discovering that it completely conflicted with my work schedule in a way that I could not work around. I thankfully had someone who I met with for a few hours every weekday for about 6 weeks to make sure I stayed on task and explain what I did not understand. But that meant when I went into this class, yet again I was completely ahead of the coursework. And regretfully mostly cruised through the class and cannot remember exactly what was taught in the class. I do however remember studying keigo in this class which I enjoyed.