Advanced Chinese I

Catalog description

This is an advanced-level Chinese language course aiming to enhance students’ Chinese language skills and cultural literacy in order to communicate with their contemporary Chinese peers. Students learn to master more advanced-level vocabulary, structures and expressions 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.