Junior Year Writing for Japanese Majors

This course satisfies the Junior Year Writing Requirement through a two-pronged approach. One part builds upon the College Writing course by going step by step through the presentation of advanced research including finding topics, doing the actual research, taking notes, organizing your thoughts, creating a first draft, and editing them into a final polished whole. In addition, to teach major-specific writing, this course provides an introduction to how various people have seen Japan and seeks to develop tools for the analysis of the cultural products (such as art, cinema, or literature) of Japan. Writing assignments will include various kinds of exercises such as travel literature, reviews, and news articles, as well as a major research paper. By the end of the semester, each student will have a better understanding of the scope and range of approaches to a different culture. In doing so, each student will also gain some perspective into the political position they endorse in their own scholarship. Satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement for Japanese.