New Course Proposal Form Document ID#

Rhode Island College Curriculum Committee Document ID # 10-11-072 Date Received 3/1/2011 for CCC use only New Course Proposal Form Use this form if you are proposing a new course.. For

Rhode Island College Curriculum Committee Document ID # 10-11-072

Date Received 3/1/2011 (for CCC use only)

New Course Proposal Form

Use this form if you are proposing a new course Please use a separate form for each new course you are proposing If you are revising a course, use the Course Revision Form A separate transmittal form is

no longer required.

Please answer all questions Gray areas are simple text boxes; just click on the box to type You may enter as much information as necessary If a question doesn’t apply to your proposal, please write NA For information about completing the form, download the document entitled “Information for

Completing the Course Proposal Form” from the Curriculum Committee website Underlined areas on this form correspond to explanations in the instructions.

If you have questions about completing this form, please email the Chair of the Curriculum

Committee at curriculum@ric.edu

1 Name and affiliation of the originator: Olga Juzyn, Modern Languages

2 Date: February 7, 2011

3 What do you want the Curriculum Committee to do?

Approve new course: Japanese 101, Elementary Japanese I

4 What are the course abbreviation, number, and title? JPAN 101, Elementary Japnese I

If the course will be cross listed, what are the alternate course abbreviation and number?

5 Give curricular rationales for the new course.

This course has been offered for many years as MLAN 150 Given that the course has had steady enrollments, the Department feels it is time to offer it under its proper name This will make the course more visible and eventually increase enrollments.

6 Course description (Limit: 30 words, not including prerequisites, credit hours, semesters offered, general education satisfaction, cross listings, exclusions, former course numbers and titles, or information about course repetition

Students learn to understand, speak, read, and write in Japanese and gain an understanding of Japanese life and character Language laboratory is required.

7 Contact hours per week: 4

8 Credit hours per semester: 4

9 Explain any discrepancy between contact and credit hours.

10 Prerequisite(s):      

11 Will this course satisfy the General Education requirement? If so, please check the appropriate category

Core 1 Core 2 Core 3 Core 4 W

SB A LS M SM

12 What category will this course satisfy? (Check all that apply.)

Required for major/minor Restricted elective for major/minor Free elective Required for certification

For professional development Other (please explain)      

13 Instructional methods (Check all that apply.)

Fieldwork Individualized instruction Internship Laboratory Lecture Practicum Seminar Small group

Other (describe)      

14 How will student performance be evaluated?

Anecdotal records Attendance Behavioral observations

Oral Presentations Papers Performance Protocols Projects Quizzes Reports of outside supervisor

Other (describe):      

15 Grading system (Check one)

A B, C, D, F (with + or -) S, U CR, NCR

16 Is this an honors course? NO

17 Frequency offered (Check all that apply.)

Annually (semester varies) Alternate years Even years

Odd years Other (describe)      

18 Attach a two-level topical outline or syllabus to your proposal

19 Describe the impact of the proposed course on:

A Students: An additional opportunity for RIC students

B Faculty      

20 Describe the impact of the proposed course on college resources:

A Departmental resources: NONE

B Library resources: NONE

C Technical/Computing resources: NONE

21 List all other segments of the college affected by the proposed change

22 What else do you want the Curriculum Committee to know about this course?

Adjunct faculty already available to teach this course.

23 Semester and year of implementation: FALL 2011

24 Prepare a separate document, showing revisions to the catalog copy

25 Email the completed proposal form (without signatures), the revised catalog copy, and topical outlines

or syllabi (in Microsoft Word, if possible) to the Chair of the Curriculum Committee:

curriculum@ric.edu

26 Acquire all relevant signatures on the signature page of this form Send one paper copy of this form including the signature page, to the Chair of the Curriculum Committee Because we work primarily with electronic forms, you do not need to send paper copies of the catalog revisions or of the

syllabi/topical outline.

Proposals are due 17 days before the monthly meeting of the Curriculum Committee, which usually meets on the third Friday of the month Meeting dates and deadlines for proposals will be

announced in College Briefs.

ACKNOWLEGMENTS (Please write NA if the signature is not appropriate.)

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Approvals

**Department Chair or Program Director

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**Dean(s)

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For General Education courses, the Chair of the Committee on General Education

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For Graduate courses or programs, the Chair of the Graduate Committee

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*Proposals for new courses require these signatures.

**Courses that involve more than one department or division within the college must have the signatures

of all relevant department chairs, program directors, dean and/or directors.

Instructor: Ruth Ribner

e-mail: rribner1@ric.edu, rribner@gmail.com

REQUIRED TEXT and WEBSITE:

Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese 3rd Edition,

Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku,

University of California San Diego

Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese

3rd Edition

Text book web site:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072408154/information_center_view0/

COURSE GOALS/OBJECTIVES:

Upon completing Elementary Japanese I (MLAN 150-01) If you study, do all the assignments and faithfully attend class, you the student will be able to read and write Japanese kana, both hiragana and katakana, understand native Japanese speakers when they talk about themselves, their friends, their activities, interests, daily routines, weather, jobs, classes, future and past activities You will also be able to introduce yourself, talk about the above topics using phrases and sentences, and read and write about the same topics using hiragana and katakana

POLICIES

Class work: Any work that you are assigned to do in class and is explicitly referred to as class

work All class work is due on the date indicated, usually at the end of that class, and will not be accepted after that date

Attendance: If you need to miss a class please write me an e-mail ahead of time with a brief

explanation of the situation If you are missing class because of some event like a funeral, wedding, court appearance, doctor’s appointment etc please bring in proof that you actually attended that appointment, as soon as possible after the day of the class you missed

If something unexpected comes up and you must miss class because you got sick, in an accident, etc please bring in any document to prove this happened on the date that you missed class If you were sick and were afraid that you may have caught a contagious disease like H1N1, please miss class and write me an e-mail as soon as possible after the class you missed

Participation is graded as follows:

-Students who frequently volunteer to answer questions, and actively participate in the class with out any teacher prompting will receive a grade in the A range for participation Those students who participate as described above and answer the questions correctly more often than not will earn a grade in the high A range for participation

-Students who only participate when asked, but still answer the question correctly more often than not will earn a participation grade in the B range

-Students who only participate when asked, and answer the questions correctly less than fifty percent of the time will earn a participation grade in the low B range

-Students who only participate when asked, and then only do so reluctantly but answer the questions correctly more often than not earn a participation grade in the high C range

-Students who only participate when asked, and then only do so reluctantly, and answer the questions correctly less than 50% of the time will earn a participation grade in the low C range -Students who refuse to participate in class more often than not will receive a participation grade

in the D range

-Students who refuse to participate in class ever will get an F for a participation grade

Homework:

There will be a lot of HW assigned for you to do on your own From time to time I may choose

to collect and grade or go over previously assigned HW in class I will not tell you ahead of time which HW I will collect Therefore it is up to you to do all HW when it is assigned

For all HW please be sure to write the date when the HW was assigned and the topic at the top of the page, as well as the page number and exercise number before each exercise (as appropriate)

If the answer of a question requires you to fill in a part of the sentence, please write the entire sentence

HW grades will be determined as follows:

Completion: Questions answered/Total number of questions assigned

Accuracy: Correct answers/Total number of questions completed

Quizzes:

There will be no make-ups of quizzes However if a student wants to increase their grade on a specific quiz, then they may make corrections of all the wrong answers on that quiz and receive seventy percent of the point value of all corrected answers that are completed correctly added to the grade they received for that quiz they did in class All corrected quizzes must be handed in

no later than one week before an exam unless that quiz was given later than one week before an exam

Group Projects:

Students will design and record conversations on a given topic They will work in pairs and record their conversation on Audacity, a free program available on the web The instructor will give out written instructions on how to download, use this program, and send an MP3 file of their conversation to the instructor

Song:

Students will be given a choice from a list several songs, and provided with lyrics and audio, to memorize and sing to the class ‘karaoke’ style

Final Conversation:

Students will be given instructions on how to prepare for a conversation with their instructor completely in Japanese The instructor will make appointments with and meet students in groups

of two to have this conversation Students will be graded on the ability to understand and engage

in a conversation about topics we have studied this semester

GRADE

Method

Classwork/Attendance/Participation 10%

Definitions

DISABILITY SERVICES AND ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS

If you have a documented disability and wish to discuss academic accommodations, please contact me within the first two weeks of class to make arrangements and to discuss helpful learning strategies for this course For further information or assistance, please contact the staff

at Disability Services at (401) 456-8061

SCHEDULE

Schedule T=Textbook L=Lab Manual H=Hiragana K=Katakana

1 Tues 8/31 Introductions

Intro to Japanese Writing system

Part 1 Text pp.2-6

HW 1:

Syllabus reflection, LM

Listening

Pg 1 Simple Introductions, pg

2 Inquiring About Someone’s Name, and Kana Sound Chart

T pls read pg 14

on the Japanese writing system

2 Thurs 9/2 Everyday

Greetings

Transliteration practice

Part 1

T

pp 7-9, 10-12

HW 2:

LM

listening

pg 2 Ex A,

pg 3 B and A, writing

pg 5 Ex B, pg 6

C, D, pg 8 Ex A

HW 1

Classroom expressions Practice of transliteration

Part 1

T pp

4-6

pp 11-12

HW 3:

LM listening

pg 4 Ex B, A, writing

pg 5 Ex B

pg 11 Ex B

pg 13 Ex D Study for Quiz 1

on dictation and reading

transliteration

HW 2

4 Tues 9/14 More of the above

plus numbers

New Hiragana:

a-so

あ-そ

Part 2

T

pp.17-8

HW 4:

LM

listening

pg 15 Ex B writing

pg 10 Ex A

pg 11 Ex B

pg 15 Ex A, B

H: a-so

あ-そ

pp 28-30

HW 3 Quiz 1 - on transliteration

5 Thurs 9/16 telephone

numbers, telling time and times of day

あ-そ practice

Part 2

T 18

T 20-1

T 22

HW 5:

LM listening

pg 16 B, A writing

pg 18 Ex A

pg 20 Ex B

HW 4 Group Project 1 – Due

Record a conversation on Audacity about a given topic

6 Tues 9/21 daily activities Part 2

Text pp.24-5

LM 33

HW 6

LM

pg 16 Ex B (at bottom)

pg 17 Ex C, D, and A

Study for Quiz 2

on あ-そ a-so

HW 5

7 Thurs 9/23 daily activities,

schedules, and

new H: た- ほ　

ta-ho

Part 3

T

pp 33-4

HW 7

LM pg 51-2 Ex

B

H: ta-ho た-ほ　

pg 31-3

HW 6 Quiz 2 – あ-そ

a-so

minutes, frequency, and

H: ta-ho た-ほ　 practice

Part 3

T 35-6

L 37

HW 8

LM

pg 47 Ex A, C

Pg 50 EX A

HW 7

T

pp 39, 26-9

HW 9

LM

pg 48 Ex A,

Pg 49 Ex B

Pg 56 Ex H

Study for Quiz 3

on

た-ほ　

ta-ho

HW 8

dislikes, and echo questions, and more kana spelling rules

new H: ま-ろ

ma-ro

Part 3

T

pp

39-41 on

Pg 41

HW 10

T pls read

pp 26-9 on Hiragana (1), and

pg 51-1

LM pg 49 Ex

C, A

pg 34-6 ま-ろ

HW 9 Quiz 3 on

た-ほ　 ta-ho

11 Thurs 10/7 Talking about

events and activities in the past, days and weeks in the past Question words

H: ま-ろ practice

Part 4

T 49-52

HW 11

LM

pg 73

Ex A,

Pg 77 Ex A, Write a question that you think should be on the midterm

HW 10

Choice of song

to memorize in Japanese

Group Project 2 – Due

Record a conversation on Audacity about a given topic

12 Thurs 10/14 Midterm Review

Content and Format of Midterm

Study for Midterm (which will

include the

H: ま-ろ)

HW 12

(Due after the Midterm)

LM

pg 73 Ex B

pg 77 Ex B

HW 11

14 Thurs 10/21 Inviting someone

to do something, days of the week, more Hiragana reading practice,

new H: わ-ん

LM

pg 74 Ex B

pg 75 Ex A

pp 36-7

HW 12

15 Tues 10/26 Days of the week

H: わ-ん practice Part 4 LM HW 14

pg 82-3 Ex B

pg 76 Ex C

HW 13 Group Project 3 – Due

Record a conversation on Audacity about a given topic