Japanese COCOs or CO2s

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Please scroll down to see the materials and information available for K-12 Japanese programs or go to the COCOs/CO2s landing page, also accessible via the graphic, for documents for other languages.

Here are the Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) documents used for standards-based curriculum writing in North Carolina, which is done locally by individual, department, school, or district. These documents have been compiled from the proficiency charts with student outcomes in the North Carolina World Language Standard Course of Study Links to an external site..

Notes:

  • These materials are downloadable as Word documents so that they can easily be used for curriculum writing and shared among colleagues for collaboration.

  • Each document also contains the language-specific course code(s) for the course as a reference.

  • Please use the K-12 Bridging documents below as a guide to help teachers and administrators create a strong K-12 sequence locally for the program(s) you offer:

Elementary School (ES) Courses

Elementary language courses that build proficiency meet 90 minutes or more per week throughout the year.  These are Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) programs.

Elementary courses that do not meet the 90 minutes per week minimum are actually Exploratory Language courses, and they use the course code 12752Z0.

Exit proficiency expectations for FLES program courses are described based on the number of years of study that students have had, and course codes are numbered accordingly:

  • ES Japanese (less than 1 year of study) has course code 11802Z0

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the Kindergarten classes, and a grades 3 - 5 program would use it for the 3rd grade classes. 

  • ES Japanese (1 year of study) is 11802Z1

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the 1st grade classes, and a grades 3 - 5 program would use it for the 4th grade classes. 

  • ES Japanese (2 years of study) is 11802Z2

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the 2nd grade classes, and a grades 3 - 5 program would use it for the 5th grade classes. 

  • ES Japanese (3 years of study) is 11802Z3

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the 3rd grade classes. 

  • ES Japanese (4 years of study) is 11802Z4

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the 4th grade classes. 

  • ES Japanese (5 years of study) is 11802Z5

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the 5th grade classes. 

  • ES Japanese (6 years of study) is 11802Z6

Examples: A K-5 program would use this code for the 6th grade classes. 

   

Please click on the Google folder below with the ES Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) documents to download what you need for standards-based curriculum writing.

Middle School (MS) Courses

Middle school language courses that build proficiency meet 90 minutes per week or more for at least one semester, but do not earn high school credit.

Middle school courses that do not meet the 90 minutes per week minimum or are of short duration, such as 6-week or 9-week rotations, are actually Exploratory Language courses, and they use the course code 12752Y0.

Exit proficiency expectations for middle school courses are described based on the number of years of study that students have had, and course codes are numbered accordingly:

  • MS Japanese Beginning (less than 1 year of study) has course code 11802Y0

Examples: A grades 6 - 8 program would use this code for the 6th grade class(es), and a grades 7 - 8 program would use it for the 7th grade class(es). 

  • MS Japanese Beginning (1 year of study) is 11802Y1

Examples: A grades 6 - 8 program would use this code for the year-long 6th grade class(es), and a grades 7 - 8 program that offers one semester per year would use it for the 8th grade class(es). 

  • MS Japanese Continuing (2 years of study) is 11802Y2

Examples: A grades 6-8 program would use this code for the year-long 7th grade class(es). 

  • MS Japanese Continuing (3 years of study) is 11802Y3

Examples: A grades 6-8 program would use this code for the year-long 8th grade class(es). 

Middle schools can also offer high school credit courses to their students. In Japanese, Levels I - IV can be offered, and Levels I - VI are available for the Credit by Demonstrated Mastery (CDM) process Links to an external site.. Please see the details below in the High School Courses section.

Please click on the Google folder below with the MS Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) documents to download what you need for standards-based curriculum writing.

K - 8 DL/I Literacy Courses

DL/I Literacy courses are K - 8 target language arts courses that build proficiency in reading, writing, etc. as part of a dual language/immersion program where academic content is delivered in the target language. 

Exit proficiency expectations for these K - 8 courses are described for each grade span but the 7th digit of the course codes are numbered by individual grade levels:

  • Kindergarten Japanese DL/I Literacy has course code 11912Z0

  • Grade 1 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Z1

  • Grade 2 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Z2

  • Grade 3 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Z3

  • Grade 4 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Z4

  • Grade 5 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Z5


  • Grade 6 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Y6

  • Grade 7 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Y7

  • Grade 8 Japanese DL/I Literacy is 11912Y8

Note: The middle school DL/I Literacy courses do not earn high school credit. The most common middle school immersion continuation sequence is either placement in high school credit courses Level II or Level III, depending on the individual student's needs, or placement in heritage language courses for high school credit, if offered by the school.

   

Please click on the Google folder below with the K-8 DL/I Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) documents to download what you need for standards-based curriculum writing.

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High School (HS) Courses

High school courses are part of articulated, sequenced, language-focused programs that develop proficiency in the modern language, provide the credits students need to meet and exceed college entrance requirements, and have proficiency level outcomes for each communication mode and culture that are adjusted based on language acquisition research and language type (alphabetic, logographic, visual).

Notes:

Middle schools have flexibility to offer high school credit courses over two academic years, so that students take Part A one year and Part B the following year to receive the full credit. The course codes for those options are included in the documents below.

Community College World Language courses have been crosswalked or aligned to high school courses so that students can be scheduled appropriately into the language sequence. Please see the alignment below for Japanese or the High School to Community College Alignment document Links to an external site..

  • Japanese I has course code 11812X0

Japanese I at a high school and JPN 111 at an early college are equivalent courses.

  • Japanese II is 11822X0

Japanese II at a high school and JPN 112 at an early college are equivalent courses.

Levels III - VIII are inherently advanced courses and assigned honors-level weighting per State Board of Education policy GRAD-009 Links to an external site.. These courses can be traditional language and literature curricula or be designed as courses that are linked to career and technical education, student career interests, etc. such as language for specific purpose courses, interpreter or translator certification courses, DL/I courses, or languages across the curriculum courses.

  • Japanese III Honors has course code 11835X0

Japanese III at a high school and JPN 211 at an early college are equivalent courses.

  • Japanese IV Honors is 11845X0

Japanese IV at a high school and JPN 212 at an early college are equivalent courses.

  • Japanese V Honors is 11855X0

  • Japanese VI Honors is 11865X0

  • Japanese VII Honors is 11875X0

  • Japanese VIII Honors is 11885X0

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Please click on the Google folder below with the HS Levels I - VIII Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) documents to download what you need for standards-based curriculum writing.

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Heritage Language Programs

The North Carolina World Language Standard Course of Study Links to an external site. includes two levels of heritage language courses, or what were formerly called native speakers courses, as part of Dual & Heritage Languages. Heritage language courses are designed for students who have home backgrounds in a language other than English or come from other immersion experiences, formal or informal. 

Heritage language courses help students bridge into advanced modern language courses, such as Level IV or AP.

Using Chinese as an example for logographic languages in the graphic, heritage language students can enroll in Chinese Heritage I and Chinese Heritage II, which is an honors course because it is equivalent to a Level III modern language course in proficiency expectations. 

Upon completion of these two courses, students can proceed to Chinese IV and/or Advanced Placement (AP) Chinese, where they will be joined by fourth- and/or fifth-year students who are studying Chinese as a modern language.

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Please click on the Heritage Levels I - II Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) documents to download what you need for standards-based curriculum writing, which include the course codes for Japanese Heritage courses:

  • Japanese Heritage I has course code 11892X0

  • Japanese Heritage II Honors is 11905X0

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Additional Resources for Heritage Language Programs:

Advanced Learning Programs

World Language programs sometimes incorporate other curricular components such as the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Program, Cambridge International Education (CIE), or the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. 

These programs are an opportunity for high school students to pursue college level studies while in secondary schools and prepare for the examinations that accompany them. Depending on the exam score a student earns, they may be eligible for college credit and/or qualify for the World Languages portion of the Global Languages Endorsement, NC's Seal of Biliteracy Links to an external site..

Here are the Advanced Learning courses currently being offered in North Carolina for Chinese:

  • AP Japanese Language & Culture has course code 1A067X0

  • IB Japanese ab initio is 1I192X0

  • IB Language B - Japanese SL is 1I098X0

  • IB Language B - Japanese HL is 1I108X0

  • IB Language A* - Other Modern Lang SL is 1I318X0

  • IB Language A* - Other Modern Lang HL is 1I358X0

*In IB sequences for students in Heritage Language programs or DL/I Continuation programs, IB Language A may be offered in another language, if there are students with high proficiency in the language who need placement beyond IB Language B courses. Taking two IB Language A (English and another language) courses that focus on language and literature is one way of obtaining a bilingual diploma Links to an external site..

 

Additional Resources for Advanced Learning Programs:

In recent years, the pre-IB programs offered at the elementary level (Primary Years Programme Links to an external site.) and middle school (Middle Years Programme Links to an external site.) have also grown in popularity and prepare students to be successful at the next level.

Go to Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes landing page to access documents for other languages.

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