This course was an experimental course taught under JAPN395: Special Topics. The Special Topics course is designed so that professors can teach what they want to and or need to that semester if they need to teach something out of order or want to test out a new course, such as this one. This course that they were developing unfortunately had been designed for students with a high level of Japanese proficiency, that would have come from studying abroad, that we did not possess, so the course was modified as we went to suit our needs, while still pushing us to improve our Japanese.
This course satisfies both MLO1 and MLO2. I think the best way to describe this course comes from the syllabus:
"This course is designed to develop advanced use of Japanese in three modes of communication using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’ framework. Students will be able to understand and discuss Japanese major issues in society through authentic resources and propose possible solutions critically. This course is taught in Japanese."
We focused on three of the UN's SDGs for the framework of what we learned in this course, "Responsible Production and Consumption," "Climate Action," and "Good Health and Wellbeing." At the end of each unit we to create some sort of implementle plan that would work towards that SDG. The first one was allowed to be a plan that we could implement locally so long as it had effects in Japan as well. Each one resulted in a final group presentation in Japanese. The only exception to this was the one on climate action, which built upon what we had learned in the previous unit and required that we pick a prefecture and design a set menu around what was grown locally that included an onigiri, a soup, and a side dish, and could be done individually rather than in our groups. For our final presentation, we were allowed to pick any SDG and design a project around it as well.
For the first project, my group chose to work to reduce waste from corporate food deliveries. This first file below is the presentation we gave on it. Our next presentation was our final presentation. The reason the final presentation happened so early was that out of our 12 person class only two of us were not working on our capstones that year, so it was moved earlier out of deference for those going through capstone to make their lives a little easier. For that my group chose to focus on the SDG "Reduced Inequalities" with the goal of working towards marriage equality in Japan for LGBTQ+ individuals. The next one was the climate action one, which was the set menu. As I had struggled to get my group members to cooperate and get work done on time I elected to do that presentation alone. I chose Tottori prefecture and had to research what was seasonally grown their, what the prefecture was like, as well as its climate. For the presentation I had to present my research as well as the recipes for the parts of my set menu. The third file is that presentation. Last the presentation for "Good Health and Wellbeing." Another member of my group decided that we should focus on mental health and tie in with the Japanese subculture of yamikawaii or "sick cute." That presentation is the last file. I have also posted below some recording of these presentations.
This course satisfies both MLO1 and MLO2. I think the best way to describe this course comes from the syllabus:
"This course is designed to develop advanced use of Japanese in three modes of communication using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’ framework. Students will be able to understand and discuss Japanese major issues in society through authentic resources and propose possible solutions critically. This course is taught in Japanese."
We focused on three of the UN's SDGs for the framework of what we learned in this course, "Responsible Production and Consumption," "Climate Action," and "Good Health and Wellbeing." At the end of each unit we to create some sort of implementle plan that would work towards that SDG. The first one was allowed to be a plan that we could implement locally so long as it had effects in Japan as well. Each one resulted in a final group presentation in Japanese. The only exception to this was the one on climate action, which built upon what we had learned in the previous unit and required that we pick a prefecture and design a set menu around what was grown locally that included an onigiri, a soup, and a side dish, and could be done individually rather than in our groups. For our final presentation, we were allowed to pick any SDG and design a project around it as well.
For the first project, my group chose to work to reduce waste from corporate food deliveries. This first file below is the presentation we gave on it. Our next presentation was our final presentation. The reason the final presentation happened so early was that out of our 12 person class only two of us were not working on our capstones that year, so it was moved earlier out of deference for those going through capstone to make their lives a little easier. For that my group chose to focus on the SDG "Reduced Inequalities" with the goal of working towards marriage equality in Japan for LGBTQ+ individuals. The next one was the climate action one, which was the set menu. As I had struggled to get my group members to cooperate and get work done on time I elected to do that presentation alone. I chose Tottori prefecture and had to research what was seasonally grown their, what the prefecture was like, as well as its climate. For the presentation I had to present my research as well as the recipes for the parts of my set menu. The third file is that presentation. Last the presentation for "Good Health and Wellbeing." Another member of my group decided that we should focus on mental health and tie in with the Japanese subculture of yamikawaii or "sick cute." That presentation is the last file. I have also posted below some recording of these presentations.
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I do not possess the file of this recording, as it was another group member that recorded it.
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The recording of this presentation is too large to upload even when compressed.
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