Chinese 301: Intermediate Modern Chinese Language 1
- Course Code:
- 155901224
- Unit value:
- 1
- Taught in:
- Full Year
This course aims at improving students’ command of modern Chinese by focusing on skills that are important for the students’ academic work through both reading and practical use. In reading, the students will develop skills of processing and analysing information, develop their vocabulary in a more systematic manner through various forms of written materials, learn about the contexts of those materials and how they might be employed in academic research.
The practical language use part of the course addresses advanced issues of grammar in conjunction with various tasks where the students are required to use the target language through, for example, compositions in both practical and formal manner.
Prerequisites
Years 1 and 2 of the BA Chinese programme or equivalent (1,500-2,000) characters.Objectives and learning outcomes of the course
At the end of this course, a student should be able to read modern documents such as newspapers and academic publications, have mastered issues of grammar and varied discourses, and be able to use the target language with improved accuracy.
