Classroom Language Japanese University

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **Classroom Language Japanese University**

   Hi everyone,

   I’ve been looking through the syllabus of Kobe University and noticed a lot of English named courses at first sight. However, when clicking on those courses, the majority’s “Classroom Language” was Japanese. This might come off as a dumb question, but what does this mean? Because why would they put their course names in English, just to give their lectures in Japanese.

   Thanks in advance for your answers!

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2. Classroom language is the language in which your exams, homework, and general discussion will be in. The reason for the course name being in English could be that the course material is in English, or the course subject is of English origin, or something else entirely. This is quite common in universities where English isn’t the first language (or, atleast, the universities I’m aware of 🤷‍♀️) my current course at a Swedish university has a classroom language of Japanese (as in, all discussion, homework, and all exams are in Japanese), but the course material is English. The course name is in English.

3. Are you looking at the English language page? If so they have. They provide the information in English, but the course will be in Japanese, and there may also be a Japanese name of the course if applicable.

   If you’re on the Japanese page, then it’s probably because the course material or something as the other comment suggested.