. It equips students with the skills to communicate and negotiate with people of different cultural backgrounds.
This Minor combines language study and cultural knowledge of Japanese society and is designed to boost the employment prospects of STEM graduates. It equips students with the skills to communicate and negotiate with people of different cultural backgrounds.
Graduates will be able to speak and behave appropriately in different situations and contexts, and demonstrate an understanding of Japanese culture and society. By pairing with a Major in Medicine, Social Sciences, Science or Engineering, students gain an advantage after graduation as they enter the global employment market.
For students taking a minor which shares units with their other unit sets (majors or minors):
In order for minors to be recognised on academic and graduation documents, students may only have a maximum of one unit overlapping between their unit sets.
Outcomes
Students are able to:
demonstrate a Japanese language proficiency, in both oral and written forms, equivalent to N5 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test;
demonstrate cultural competence and an understanding of the current socio-cultural issues in Japan; and
acquire information literacy and management skills in Japanese through a variety of media and search techniques.
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The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) has been offered by the Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (formerly Association of International Education, Japan) since 1984.
The course is an introduction to Japanese for any students wishing to learn the language for business, travel and/or everyday use. Students will develop basic skills of conversation, reading, listening and writing in Japanese.
Japanese classes are offered from beginners to advanced level by La Lingua Language School.
This major in Japanese, which is open to beginners and those with some knowledge of the language, consists of three years of interactive Japanese language study on the Perth campus, with a choice of including (upon successful application) one or more semesters at a Japanese partner institution.
Japanese is the official language of Japan. It is also widely used by communities of speakers in Hawaii, Peru and Brazil, and learnt as an additional language by large numbers of students in the Republic of Korea, China, Indonesia and Australia.
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