Japanese Language Course

International Education and Research Division offers a General Japanese Course, Intensive Japanese Course, and Co-learning in Multicultural Classrooms Course for international students, teaching and research staff. If you would like to register this course, please check the application period and placement test in advance and apply online. If you do not apply, you will not be allowed to attend classes. For details of each course and application, please visit the website at:

https://isc.high.hokudai.ac.jp/

Each course is outlined below.

General Japanese Course

Various levels are offered in this course (Introductory 1-4, Intermediate 1-3, and Advanced) and each level contains the following subjects:

• Introductory: Grammar, Communication, Survival Japanese, Kanji & Vocabulary
• Intermediate: Interaction (basic and practical), Expression (basic and practical),Comprehension (basic and practical)
• Advanced: Interaction, Expression, Comprehension, Japanese Seminar,Business Japanese.
  Students are free to choose the unit of study according to their needs; however, class levels will be determined on the basis of a placement test and on the previous study of Japanese.

Eligibility : students must meet one of the following requirements:

• Must be an international student enrolled at Hokkaido University with a student visa as a bachelor’s degree program student, research student, graduate student, special auditor, or special research student.
• Must be teaching research staff.

*Auditors and credited auditors are not eligible to apply
*Bachelor’s degree program students (including MJSP students and ISP students) in need of credit must register under“Japanese Language Subject”, General Education Courses.

Intensive Japanese Course for Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship Students

This course is for embassy-recommended Japanese Goverment Scholarship Student at the graduate level (Kenkyu-ryugakusei) and in teacher training programs. Depending on the placement test results, students will be placed in either the introductory or intermediate course. The introductory course consists of 9 classes and the intermeduate course consists of 11 classes. Students are required to attend all classes during the semester and expected to study around 3 hours outside of the class every day.

Eligibility : students must meet the following requirement:

1. Must be an embassy-recommended Japanese Government Scholarship Student at the graduate level (kenkyu-ryugakusei) or in teacher training programs.

Co-learning in Multicultural Classrooms (CMC)

The Co-learning in Multicultural Classrooms (CMC) is a collaborative learning class which is designed to improve the language skill and academic skills required to be successful in university studies through class discussion. Learning Japanese is not the main purpose of this course. Group work mixing Japanese and international students is the central focus of the course, therefore, students are required to participate in class activities proactively.

Eligibility : students must meet the following requirements:

1. Must be an international student enrolled at Hokkaido University with a student visa as a research student, graduate student, special auditor, special research student, or an international teaching or research staff.
2. A certain level of Japanese language ability is required.

*Auditors, credited auditors, and bachelor’s degree program students are ineligible to apply; however, bachelor’s degree program students are eligible to register under the freshman seminar, Co-learning in Multicultural Classrooms Courses.