Advanced Chinese I

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This course is the first part of a one-year Advanced Chinese course designed for students who have successfully completed Intermediate Chinese II at NYU-SH, or who have at least the equivalent knowledge of Chinese upon registration. It is designed to reinforce and further improve students’ overall communicative competence by incorporating semi-formal or formal usages. The objectives of the course are: (1) to learn to apply formal linguistic expressions in speaking and writing; (2) to acquire specialized vocabulary and patterns necessary for conducting formal discussions of socio-cultural topics; (3) to develop reading comprehension of texts with more advanced syntax; (4) to learn to make context-based guess about the meaning of a new word and further enhance students’ ability to analyze as well as produce sentences with more complex syntactical features; (5) to learn to write expository and argumentative passages in more extended length; and (6) to learn to employ basic rhetoric devices in writing. This course is for Students with a Non-Heritage background in Chinese. This course satisfies GCS elective for Non-native Chinese speakers. Prerequisite: CHIN-SHU 202 OR equivalent. Fulfillment: Core Curriculum Language; GCS Major Requirement Language Courses For Advanced GCS Track Non-Native Chinese Speakers. Equivalencies: EAST-UA 205