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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Feb 12, 2026
 
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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JPNSE 1023 - ASPECTS OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces the student to the Japanese language through a study of its structure, vocabulary and cultural heritage. Some topics discussed include word order, basic structural patterns, and particles such as WA and GA, sexism, and word formation. This course is useful for the Japanese studies student wishing to have a deeper understanding of the language as well as the linguistics student interested in gaining knowledge of a non-Indo-European language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JPNSE 0002 or 1061
Course Attributes: Asian Studies, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.


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