The certificate of achievement was created to give students the opportunity to show potential employers in this country and in other countries that the student has completed a certain number of courses in Japanese and prepares students with an intermediate to advanced knowledge of Japanese and familiarizes them with the culture of Japan.

This certificate of achievement provides students, prospective employers and others with documented evidence of persistence and academic accomplishment in the language. The certificate requires completion of one of the following lists of courses. Students may not take a credit/no credit option for required courses and each course must be completed with a “C” grade or higher.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Communicate verbally in the target language with accurate pronunciation in meaningful situations present in both informal and formal contexts.

- Effectively apply rules of grammar and syntax in tandem with appropriate vocabulary in written and oral communication.

- Demonstrate auditory comprehension of instruction, authentic content, and purposeful conversations in the target language.

- Dscuss, describe, and infer information from authentic texts in the target language.

- Demonstrate cultural appreciation by making (comparative) connections, on both an individual and societal level, between the target cultures and students’ own cultures.

- Create (write or present) narratives and/or arguments that demonstrate cohesive critical thinking in the target language.

Careers Opportunities:

- Communications

- Foreign trade and banking

- Transportation

- Government

- The Foreign Service

- Tourism

- Library services

- Teaching

- Professional translation

- Journalism

- All levels of education, including university teaching