Japanese

Language-Related Scholarships

• Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship
• Boren Undergraduate Scholarship
• Critical Language Scholarships
• Study Abroad in Japan Bridging Scholarship

Undergraduate Scholarships and Funding

• UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research & Leadership Grants
• UW Undergraduate Library Research Award
• UW Honors College Scholarships and Awards
• UW Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards
• JSIS Funding Opportunities (not limited to JSIS students)
• Office of Financial Aid – Scholarships
• Childcare Assistance Program

After Graduation

• Yenching Academy of Peking
• Schwarzman Scholars
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program
• Blakemore Freeman Fellowships
• JET Program

• Global Leaders Fellowship Program with Waseda University
• Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC)

Many Internships available in Japan with ie3global

 Language Courses

• JAPAN 401, 402, 403 Fourth Year Japanese
• JAPAN 411 Practical Japanese Through Dramas
• JAPAN 412 Virtual Tokyo
• JAPAN 413 Japanese Conversation Through Movies
• JAPAN 418 Advanced Japanese Through Content (prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.5 in JAPAN 303 or JAPAN 334) (NOTE: Can be repeated for credit.)
• JAPAN 431, 432, 433 Readings in Modern Japanese Literature (May be taken in any order; prerequisite: JAPAN 303)
• JAPAN 445 Foreign Study: Fourth-Year Japanese (prerequisite: JAPAN 303)
• JAPAN 451, JAPAN 453 Fifth Year Japanese
• JAPAN 452 Project Work in Advanced Japanese
• JAPAN 471 Introduction to Classical Japanese (prerequisite: 2.5 in JAPAN 303 or JAPAN 334)
• JAPAN 472 Readings in Classical Japanese Literature (prerequisite: JAPAN 471)

Linguistics, Literature, and/or Culture Courses:

• JAPAN 321 Survey of Japanese Literature I
• JAPAN 322 Survey of Japanese Literature II
• JAPAN 325 Introduction to Japanese Film
• JAPAN 343 Language in Society
• JAPAN 344 Foreign Language Teaching in the Japanese Context
• JAPAN 395 Linguistics or Literature, Foreign Study
• JAPAN 360 Special Topics in Japanese Culture
• JAPAN 361 Special Topics in Japanese Film
• JAPAN 380 Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary and Pop Art and Culture
• JAPAN 434 Undergraduate seminar in premodern Japanese literature
• JAPAN 435 Undergraduate seminar in modern Japanese literature
• JAPAN 441 Acquisition of a Second or Foreign Language
• JAPAN 442 Japanese Syntax and Semantics
• JAPAN 443 Topics in Sociolinguistics
• JAPAN 460 Advanced Study in Japanese Literature

Advanced class

• JAPAN 434 Undergraduate Seminar in Premodern Japanese Literature (prereq: JAPAN 321)
• JAPAN 435 Undergraduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature (prereq: JAPAN 322 or JAPAN 360)
• JAPAN 460 Advanced Study in Japanese Literature (prereq: JAPAN 322 or JAPAN 360)
• JAPAN 461 Advanced Study in Japanese Cinema and Media (prereq: JAPAN 325 or JAPAN 361)
• JAPAN 441 Acquisition of a Second or Foreign Language (prereq: JAPAN 203 or above AND either JAPAN 343, JAPAN 344, ASIAN 401, CHIN 342, LING 2XX, or LING 3XX)
• JAPAN 442 Japanese Syntax and Semantics (prereq: either LING 200 or LING 400; recommended: LING 461; at least two years of coursework in Japanese.)
• JAPAN 443 Topics in Sociolinguistics (prereq: JAPAN 313 or above AND either JAPAN 342, JAPAN 343, JAPAN 344JAPAN 440, or JAPAN 441)

Publications

Atkins, Paul. “What is the Japanese ‘wabi-sabi’ aesthetic actually about? ‘Miserable tea’ and loneliness, for starters.” The Conversation, March 12, 2024.

Jesty, Justin. Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. Cornell University Press, 2018

Ohta, Amy Snyder (2017). Conceptualizing and teaching Japanese addressee honorifics as expressing modes of self: From SCOBA development to instructional implementation. Language & Sociocultural Theory, 4(2), 187-218.

Tsujihara, R. (2022). Teaching the Japanese Aspectual form Teiru using Concept-Based Language Instruction (C-BLI) in an Intact Beginning-Level Classroom. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 9(1), 91-121.