COD offers the 6-semester sequence of Japanese totalling 22 credits. Of those 4 credits (JAPAN 2202) are so-called IAI compatible though all the credits can be transferred in various ways to other institution. The first semester (1101) begins with over 100 students in 4 sections. The second semester (1102) begins with 50-60 students (2-3 sections). Reasons for non-continuing are: Satisfied with a bit of taste of Japanese, Transferring to another institution, Too difficult to learn (3 different writing systems, completely different grammar structure from English, etc), Too much demand in class (too many quizzes, horribly difficult tests, too much embarrassed in class, etc).
The third semester (2201) begins with 15-25 students (1 section). Main reasons of discontinuing are time conflict (b/c only 1 section), transferring to another institution, no luxury time to spend language learning, etc.
At the end of the fourth semester (2202) which is the last semester for usual students at community college (2 years), about 10 students left. This has been the trend at COD in past 10 years.
Since the creation of 5th and 6th semester courses (2251-2252), there have been 5-8 student attended in every semester (usually once a week).
Besides above-mentioned regular on-campus classes, there are 4 credits offered during the Japan Summer Study Abroad Program. This 4 credits are under JAPAN 1840 (Beginning or Intermediate or advanced) outside the regular course sequence.
Just how much time needed to learn Japanese compare to Spanish, etc. see this page. Four times as long hours needed!
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