CHINESE 100
Beginning Modern Chinese 1
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for CHINESE 100.
Description
This course is designed to provide basic written and spoken skills in modern standard Chinese (Mandarin, Putonghua, Guoyu, Hanyu, Huayu) and is designed for students who have no previous knowledge of the language or whose study of Chinese is very limited, normally not higher than NCEA 1. This course gradually and systematically introduces characters and grammar points with five-days-a-week tutorials to ensure the best learning results. This course covers Chapter 1- 9 of the two textbooks. By the end of the course, students are expected to communicate orally in Chinese on simple topics of everyday life, to read simple texts written in Chinese characters and to write about 200 Chinese characters.
CHINESE 100 is concurrently taught with CHINESE 100G. Students who intend to take CHINESE 101 are not allowed to take CHINESE 100G. CHINESE 100G is offered in Summer Semester and Semester 1.
Important information: Students must complete the Language Ability Declaration and may be called for an interview and a placement test. Failure to complete the language ability declaration will result in deletion of the enrolment.
Class limits information for 2016: Enrolment in CHINESE 100G Summer School is limited to 90 students with admission based on a Language Ability Declaration indicating no previous formal or informal study in Chinese. Not offered to native speakers of Chinese. First applied, first admitted.
Please note due to the high number of contact hours required for this course any change to enrolment will only be permitted until the end of the day on the first Friday of Semester (Summer School: January 8 and Semester 1: March 4).
Availability 2016
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Dr Karen Huang
Reading/Texts
Fundamental Spoken Chinese
Fundamental Written Chinese
The sound files of the prescribed texts are available from the following websites:
http://www.hawaii.edu/uhpress/mp3/fsc/
http://www.hawaii.edu/uhpress/mp3/fwc/
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
CHINESE 100: 15 points
Prerequisites
Restrictions
May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
