Japanese Language Skills 1C (Contemporary Society) is a class for students who are in the first half of their advanced level of Japanese. The goal of this course is to help students understand contemporary society and community, especially SFC as a learning community, and to enable them to learn better at SFC. Specific activities will include reading texts about SFC and learning at SFC, discussing the contents, and writing opinion papers on the topic. Vocabulary, kanji, and grammar related to the theme will also be studied.