Placement Test Info
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All students wishing to take a course higher than 1011 (the first of a two-semester sequence of Beginning Japanese) are required to take a placement test if:

(1) you have not taken Japanese at the University of Minnesota.
(2) your grade for the preceding course is not a C- or better and a S.
(3) you took the preceding course prior to spring 2007.

1.Date, Time and Place

Fall 2008 (1):
Date: 8/29 (F)
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Place: TBA

Fall 2008 (2):
Date: 9/4 (Th) [for new incoming students who attend the orientation only]
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Place: TBA

Students who wish to take this test should send the following information to: tazaw001@umn.edu

(1) your name, e-mail address, and phone number.
(2) the number of the course in which you wish to be placed.
(3) If there are more than one test date, which date of the ones listed above you wish to take the test.

2. How to Prepare for the Test

The placement test for each level consists of two parts: written and oral. Please read the chapters indicated below to prepare. Textbooks are available at the University Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union (612-625-6000).

1012 (the second semester of Beginning Japanese)
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol.1 (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 6

3021 (the first semester of Intermediate Japanese)
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol.1 (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 12

3022 (the second semester of Intermediate Japanese)
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 2 (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 17

3031 (the first semester of Third-Year Japanese)
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 2 (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 22

3032 (the second semester of Third-Year Japanese)
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 2 (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 22
An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese (Japan Times), Lessons 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6

4041 (the first semester of Fourth-Year Japanese)
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 2 (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 22
An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese (Japan Times), up to and including Lesson 13 except Lessons 2, 7 and 10

4042 (the second semester of Fourth-Year Japanese)
'Images of Japan ' For Pre-Advanced and Advanced Learners of Japanese , Text. University of Tokyo Press.; theme 2 & 3

*To determine which level it would be best for you, please refer to the course guide, the schedule, and the respective syllabus for each course from previous year, below.

1011 Syllabus (English) 1012 Syllabus (English) 3021 Syllabus (English) 3022 Syllabus (English) 3031 Syllabus (English) 3032 Syllabus (English) 4041 Syllabus (English) 4042 Syllabus (English)

3. Registration

Please register for the class you wish to be placed in before the semester begins and attend that class on the first day, so that you will not miss anything if / when you are officially admitted to the course. (Please note that attendance points are given only to those who are physically in class.) We will notify you of the results of the placement test via email on the day you take the test. Please change your registration upon receiving those results, if necessary. Passing the placement test does not guarantee you a seat in the class.