CHINESE 100

Beginning Modern Chinese 1

Description

Designed to provide basic written and spoken skills in modern standard Chinese (Mandarin, Putonghua, Guoyu, Hanyu, Huayu) for students without previous knowledge of the language. By the end of the course, students will be able to communicate orally in Chinese on simple topics of everyday life, to read simple texts written in Chinese characters and to write about 300 Chinese characters. Students will be required to attend one stream of lectures five days a week (check nDeva).

Availability 2012

Summer School, repeated Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s)  Nora Yao

Reading/Texts

Fundamental Spoken Chinese Fundamental Written Chinese

Recommended Reading

Fundamental Spoken Chinese Fundamental Written Chinese

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

CHINESE 100: 15.0 points

Restrictions

CHINESE 110, 210, 310. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed