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2015 Summer M.A. Program in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures) invites applications for the 2014 Summer M.A. program in Japanese Pedagogy. The program runs from June 1st (Monday) to July 31st (Friday), 2015.

I. Three-week Pedagogy Course (6/01-6/19)
– Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Pedagogy, Prof. Mariko Moroishi Wei (Purdue University) and Dr. Fumiko Nazikian of (Columbia University)

II. 3 MA Courses (6/22-7/31):
- Special Topics-Pragmatics, Prof. Mutsuko Endo Hudson (Michigan State University)
- Second Language Acquisition Theory, Prof. Keiko Koda (Carnegie Mellon University)
- History of Japanese Language, Prof. Peter Hendriks (Australian National University)

Degree candidates may fulfill the requirements for the M.A. degree in three consecutive summers or in any three summers within a period of six years by taking eleven courses and writing an M.A. thesis. The thesis is required to have a focus on a particular area of Japanese pedagogy. Students take courses for six weeks in one summer and nine weeks during the other two summers. The 2015 new M.A. students will take only three M.A. courses this summer (6 weeks, 6/22-7/31).

The program also welcomes non-degree students for the three-week Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Pedagogy course by non-degree candidates with years of experience teaching Japanese at the college level.

Special Admission Requirements: B.A. or equivalent from an accredited institution in the U.S., Japan or elsewhere, proficiency in English (for native Japanese speakers: 570/IBT88/CBT230 TOEFL or above) or Japanese (for non-native Japanese speakers/ACTFL: Advanced-High or above).

More information is available at the following websites.
http://gsas.columbia.edu/content/academic-programs/japanese-pedagogy
http://ealac.columbia.edu/language-programs/japanese/jlp-summerprograms

Application deadline: February 16th, 2015.
Online Application: https://apply.gsas.columbia.edu/apply/

Successful applicants will be notified of their admission by the middle of March. On-campus housing is available during the summer.

Contact: Shigeru Eguchi, Administrative Director of the 2015 Summer M.A. Program in Japanese Pedagogy, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC), 407 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
Email: se53@columbia.edu
Tel: 212/854-3523; FAX: 212/678-8629

Eguchi, S. [JSLAR] Summer MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University. JSLAR listserv (jslar@u.washington.edu, 16 Dec 2014).