other courses and the syllabus of the Japanese Language and Culture Subjects, please refer to the “Doshisha
University Syllabus” (Website http://syllabus.doshisha.ac.jp).

Level I (Elementary Level)

Target Students: Those who begin their studies from elementary level.

Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication AI)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression AI)】
Goal: To be able to speak in short sentences on topics familiar to students using basic sentence patterns of theContents: Learning the sentence patterns necessary for speaking on topics familiar to students and practicing
them in conversation.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BI)
Goal: To understand expressions used in everyday situations.
Contents: Introduction and conversation exercises of common expressions used in everyday situations.
Pronunciation training to achieve a fluent utterance.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar I)
Contents: Introduction to basic sentence patterns of the elementary level and short sentence composition
exercises using these sentence patterns.

Level II (Upper Elementary Level)
Target Students: Those who have partially completed elementary level studies.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication AII)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression AII)】
Goal: To be able to speak in short sentences on topics familiar to students, using basic sentence patterns of theelementary level.
Contents: Learning the sentence patterns necessary for speaking on topics familiar to students and practicing
them in conversation.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BII)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BII)】
Goal: To understand expressions used in everyday situations.
Contents: Introduction and conversation exercises of common expressions used in everyday situations.
Pronunciation training to achieve a fluent utterance.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar II)
Goal: To understand upper elementary level basic grammar.
Contents: Introduction to basic sentence patterns of the upper elementary level and short sentence composition
exercises using these sentence patterns.

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Goal: To understand elementary level basic grammar.

日本語科目概要【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BI)】

日本語卒業要件

elementary level.

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年度生

In this chapter, summaries of Japanese Language Courses are described. For more details on these courses and2024年度
以降生

８. Summary of Japanese Language Courses

Level III (Pre-Intermediate Level)

Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing III)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Written Expression III)】
Goal: To write coherent paragraphs on topics familiar to students, using the sentence patterns already learnt.
Contents: Exercises on writing about topics familiar to students, using relevant sentence patterns and with careto the overall paragraph structure.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BIII)

Contents: Conversation exercises of everyday situations using sentence patterns and expressions already learnt.
Pronunciation training to achieve a fluent utterance.

日本語卒業要件【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BIII)】
Goal: To be able to use appropriate expressions in everyday situations.

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年度生

the contents before proceeding to the intermediate level.

2024年度以降生

Target Students: Those who have completed the elementary level studies but are advised to review

Japanese 1・2 (Grammar III)
Contents: Review of elementary grammar and introduction to important sentence patterns of the intermediatelevel. Short sentence composition exercises using these sentence patterns.

Target Students: Those who have completed and mastered elementary level studies.
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing IV)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Written Expression IV)】
Goal: To be able to write well-formed passages of approximately 600 characters in length.
Contents: Writing letters or simple essays on topics familiar to students.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BIV)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BIV)】
Goal: To acquire basic expressions for daily conversation and to develop oral expression skills for simple
discussion.
Contents: Practicing oral expressions for various functions and situations to be able to express one’s opinions.
Discussions on topics familiar to students.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar IV)
Goal: To understand important intermediate sentence patterns.
Contents: Introduction to important intermediate sentence patterns and short sentence composition exercises
using these sentence patterns.

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Level IV (Intermediate Level)

日本語科目概要

Goal: To master elementary level grammar and understand most important intermediate sentence patterns.

Level V (Upper Intermediate Level)
Target Students: Those who have partially completed intermediate level studies.

Contents: Writing letters and simple essays on topics familiar to students.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BV)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BV)】
Goal: To acquire more advanced expressions for daily conversation and to develop oral expression skills forDiscussions on topics familiar to students.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar V)
Goal: To understand intermediate sentence patterns.
Contents: Introduction to intermediate sentence patterns and short sentence composition exercises using thesesentence patterns.

Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading AVI)

Contents: Reading of pre-advanced level passages on current topics including newspaper articles to be able toread the information quickly and accurately.
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading BVI)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension BVI)】
Goal: To understand long and complex passages.
Contents: Reading of pre-advanced level passages from literature including stories, essays and poetry.
Japanese 1・2 (Vocabulary VI)
Goal: To develop vocabulary and expressions.
Contents: Understanding vocabulary in politics, economics, culture, society and other fields and practicing using
them appropriately.
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing VI)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Written Expression VI)】
Goal: To be able to write short reports of approximately 1500 characters in length.
Contents: Leaning the report writing process and expressions necessary for writing a report.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication AVI)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression AVI)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for monologues such as speeches or presentations.
Contents: Giving speeches and presentations on various topics.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BVI)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BVI)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for dialogues such as conversations or discussions.
Contents: Having conversations, discussions, and debates on various topics.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar VI)
Goal: To master intermediate sentence patterns and understand advanced sentence patterns.
Contents: Review of intermediate sentence patterns to improve proficiency and introduction to advancedsentence patterns. Short sentence composition exercises using these sentence patterns.

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Goal: To learn skimming and scanning techniques to develop reading comprehension.

日本語科目概要

Level VI (Pre-Advanced Level)
Target Students: Those who have completed intermediate level studies but are advised to review thecontents at the same time with studying the advanced level.

日本語卒業要件

discussion.
Contents: Practicing oral expressions for various functions and situations to express one’s opinion properly.

2016 ～2023
年度生【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Written Expression V)】
Goal: To be able to write well-formed passages of approximately 800 characters in length.

2024年度以降生Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing V)

Level VII (Advanced Level)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension AVII)】
Goal: To learn skimming and scanning techniques to develop reading comprehension.
Contents: Reading of advanced level passages on current topics including newspaper articles, editorials anddescriptions, to be able to read the information quickly and accurately.
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading BVII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension BVII)】
Contents: Reading of advanced level passages from literature including stories, essays and poetry.
Japanese 1・2 (Vocabulary VII)
Goal: To develop vocabulary and expressions.
and kango (words of Chinese origin).
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing VII)
【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Written Expression VII)】
Goal: To be able to write essays of apploximately 2,000 characters in length.

Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication AVII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression AVII)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for monologues such as speeches or presentations.
Contents: Giving speeches and presentations on various themes.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BVII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BVII)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for dialogues such as discussions or debates.
Contents: Having discussions and debates on various themes.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar VII)
Goal: To understand advanced sentence patterns.
Contents: Introduction to advanced sentence patterns and short sentence composition exercises using thesesentence patterns.

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Contents: Learning the research methodology and report and essay writing process.

日本語科目概要

Contents: Practicing advanced expressions with appropriate usage of collocations of nouns and verbs, idioms

日本語卒業要件

Goal: To understand long and complex passages.

2016 ～2023
年度生Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading AVII)

2024年度以降生

Target Students: Those who have completed and mastered intermediate level studies.

Level VIII (Upper Advanced Level)

Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading AVIII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension AVIII)】
Goal: To learn skimming and scanning techniques to develop reading comprehension.
Contents: Reading of advanced level passages on current topics including newspaper articles, editorials anddescriptions, to be able to read the information quickly and accurately.
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading BVIII)
Goal: To understand long and complex passages.
Contents: Reading of advanced level passages from literature including stories, essays and poetry.
Japanese 1・2 (Vocabulary VIII)
Contents: Practicing advanced expressions with appropriate usage of collocations of nouns and verbs, idioms
and kango (words of Chinese origin).
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing VIII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Written Expression VIII)】
Contents: Learning the research methodology and report and essay writing process.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication AVIII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression AVIII)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for monologues such as speeches or presentations.
Contents: Giving speeches and presentations on various themes.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BVIII)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BVIII)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for dialogues such as discussions or debates.
Contents: Having discussions and debates on various themes.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar VIII)
Goal: To master advanced sentence patterns.
Contents: Review of advanced sentence patterns to improve proficiency.

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Goal: To be able to write essays of apploximately 2,500 characters in length.

日本語科目概要

Goal: To develop vocabulary and expressions.

日本語卒業要件【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension BVIII)】2016 ～2023
年度生

proficiency.

2024年度以降生

Target Students: Those who have studied at the advanced level but are required to further improve theirLevel IX (High Advanced Level)

Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading AIX)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension AIX)】
Goal: To learn skimming and scanning techniques to develop reading comprehension.
Contents: Reading of highly advanced level passages on current topics including newspaper articles, editorials
and descriptions, to be able to read the information quickly and accurately.
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Reading BIX)
Goal: To understand texts of advanced contents.
Contents: Reading of advanced level passages from literature including modern and contemporary novels,essays and poetry.

Goal: To develop vocabulary and expressions.
Contents: Practicing advanced expressions with appropriate usage of collocations of nouns and verbs, idioms
and kango (words of Chinese origin).
Japanese 1・2 (Academic Writing IX)
Goal: To be able to write long essays of apploximately 3,000 characters in length.
Contents: Learning the research methodology and report and essay writing process.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication AIX)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression AIX)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for monologues such as speeches or presentations.
Contents: Giving speeches and presentations on various themes.
Japanese 1・2 (Oral Communication BIX)【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Oral Expression BIX)】
Goal: To develop oral expression skills for dialogues such as discussions or debates.
Contents: Having discussions and debates on various themes.
Japanese 1・2 (Grammar IX)
Goal: To acquire highly advanced expressions of Japanese.
Contents: Exercises of complex sentence patterns and more advanced expressions to improve proficiency.

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日本語科目概要

Japanese 1・2 (Vocabulary IX)

日本語卒業要件【Students enrolled in or before AY2023：Japanese 1・2 (Reading Comprehension BIX)】

2016 ～2023
年度生words and 2,000 basic Chinese characters and have an advanced command of Japanese.

2024年度以降生

Target Students: Those who have mastered the 100 advanced-level sentence patterns, 10,000 basic

Business Japanese
Target Students: Those who would like to improve Japanese proficiency in business.

Contents: Learning Japanese for beginners including honorifics as well as the culture and the common sense.
Business Japanese B
Goal: To learn Japanese expressions and manners useful for problem solving in Japan.
Contents: Utterance exercises and role-plays to learn honorifics. Acquiring the common sense and the basic

Business Japanese C
Goal: To acquire manners and language for business in Japan by understanding the culture.
Contents: Lectures, exercises and assignments.

Goal: To understand various issues in Japanese business and learn how to resolve them.
Contents: Learning practical business skills through role-plays and discussions.

日本語科目概要

Business Japanese D

日本語卒業要件

business manners in Japan.

2016 ～2023
年度生

Goal: To gain basic knowledge for a job search and a life in Japanese society.

2024年度以降生

Business Japanese A

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