Advanced Chinese I

Catalog description

This is a PGS course with a 10-day field study trip to China (Beijing and Qufu in Shandong Province) in early January. The linguistic acquisition component of this course is the same as the regular CHIN0700 Advanced Chinese I, aiming to enhance students’ Chinese language skills and cultural literacy in order to communicate directly with their contemporary Chinese peers. Students learn to master more advanced-level vocabulary, structures and expression through topics such as technology and society, consumer culture, popular culture and TV drama, economy and urbanization. With a manageable load of assignments and practices, students will gradually make the transition from the intermediate high to advanced level of Chinese. Advanced reading skills such as literal reading and inferential reading will also be introduced. By the end of the semester, students are expected to be able to narrate, describe, and comment on societal issues more confidently without overly relying on AI or machine translation tools. In addition, students are expected to share their research in Chinese with local Chinese university students during their field trip.