Spring 2027

Advanced Japanese Through Audio-visual Media

Advanced Japanese course using drama, news, documentaries, talk shows, and commercials to build listening comprehension, media literacy, and written/spoken expression.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Junko Mori4.0/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Grasp basic ideas on some unfamiliar topics delivered through a variety of audio-visual media produced in Japanese

  • Demonstrate the understanding of different registers and styles of Japanese language used in different genres of media discourse

  • Demonstrate how visual and sound effects contribute to the creation of meaning

  • Analyze how media discourse contributes to the creation, maintenance, or critique of certain ideological beliefs

  • State and support their own views on some social and cultural issues discussed or implied in a variety of audio-visual media produced in Japanese

  • Create audio-visual media presentations on topics of their interest

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

ASIALANG 303 or placement into ASIALANG 304

ASIALANG 452

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Professors

Spring 2027

Junko Mori

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Raw average: 4.73/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.77 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JUNKO MORI is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Audio-visual media genres: drama, news, documentary, talk/variety show, commercials
  • Listening comprehension and media literacy
  • Registers and styles of Japanese media discourse
  • Media discourse and ideological beliefs

Skills

  • Listening comprehension for unfamiliar topics in Japanese audio-visual media
  • Understanding registers and styles of Japanese media discourse
  • Analyzing how visual and sound effects create meaning
  • Analyzing media discourse and ideological beliefs
  • Stating and supporting views on social and cultural issues
  • Creating audio-visual media presentations

Grades

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ASIALANG 452 · Spring 2027

Advanced Japanese through Audio-Visual Media

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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