Spoken Contemporary Chinese

Catalog description

This course is a high-level communicative competence training course that proposes to improve students’ proficiency, accuracy, and ease in oral expressions so that they can use Chinese language in various fields, e.g. narration, negotiation, public engagement, academic speech, and social media. In addition to the in-class lectures and instructions, students working in this course will complete four projects throughout the semester. Among these four projects, at least one of them is a community-engaged learning project. Through these projects, students will apply their communication skills in authentic situations, translate classroom knowledge into real-world experience, and deepen their understanding of contemporary Chinese society and culture through interpersonal interactions. Although this course is specified in improving students’ speaking competence, it will also enhance their integrated language skills and intercultural and interpersonal communication competence through various classroom tasks and projects. Prerequisite: Advanced Chinese II or the equivalent Fulfillment: Chinese Minor and the Chinese Language and Literature Minor.