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This is one of Stephen's practice pages. I'm working under Maureen.
These are the pages I have in the sandbox:
- Japanese: Dictionaries in general
- Japanese: Finding books and articles
- Information literacy for the Japanese Studies scholar: Curriculum
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Information literacy for the Japanese Studies scholar: Curriculum
Define and develop
Basic goals
Integration of information literacy into the undergraduate curriculum (to be managed by the librarian, consistently updated). The information literacy component will be organized according to fields of knowledge. For each field there will be a set of activities ordered according to the proficiency level of the student.
- At the graduate level, coordinate with JPN 800 Bibliography and Research Methods.
- A set of competencies graded for various levels of proficiency.
- A set of activities.
- A set of instruments for assessment.
- A form of certification.
- 1 credit: 1 hour in-class instruction and 2 hours of preparation per week.
Pedagogical target
- Language students
- Business students
- Incoming graduate student who are in TA training workshops
- ABD doctoral students
- Faculty who want updates on latest periodicals, new acquisitions
Target competencies
Undergraduate level
Through performing the activities in each module, a student of the level in question can expect to . . .
- 1st year:
- Become familiar with Romanized resources and translation dictionaries.
- Learn the 五十音順 and how to look up words in a 国語辞典.
- Learn how to look up a 漢字 by stroke count and by radical.
- Learn how to use Rikai and online dictionaries, digital resources.
- Learn how to find primary sources at a beginning level
(e.g., 談話の書き下ろし、小学校の読本 、漫画, FNN, etc.).
- 2nd. year:
- Extend knowledge of language styles and genres: TV and newspapers.
- Learn the いろは.
- Write a report/speech on an aspect of popular culture or a current news item.
- 3rd. year:
- Extend knowledge of language styles and genres.
- Familiarize yourself with the Japanese literature in your specialty.
- Work up a speech from a report, or vice versa.
- 4th. year:
- Extend knowledge of language styles and genres.
- Create an annotated bibliography for a research project in your field.
- Evaluate websites for use as references (re: PAIR).
- Write a letter of request (for information, a book, and article) to an institute of
higher learning.
- Learn how to use the Inter-library Loan System responsibly (see WebCat first).
Graduate level
Through performing the activities in each module, a student of the level in question can expect to . . .
- 1st. year:
- Develop resources for Japanese language classes and culture classes.
- 2nd. year:
Modules
Manga
Statistics
- specialized vocabulary: Math
- Organizational principles of government
- Agencies
- Census bureau
- Trade
- Elections
- Education
- Welfare
- Political geography
- "The DIR guide to Japanese statistics"
- Deming's "just in time" system
- Statistical literacy
- Quantitative linguistics
- Interpreting comparable data without carrying over cultural assumptions
- Statistics for statisticians
- Statistics for specialized fields
- psycholinguistics
- oceanography
- climatology
- Finding statistics for your field.
Linguistics
Poetry
Business
Shashi
Film
Basic skills in the Library Sciences
Learn about bibliographic records (e.g., what does "ill." mean?).
Learn how to use a specific reference resource for each separate field.
Construction of chronologies, canons, "core" holdings of libraries, KBS bibliographies (Princeton has tried to collect everything in the KBS catalogue)
