CHNS3104A-L11
Beginning Chinese
This course is designed to help students develop functional language ability in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese in order to meet the basic needs in their personal and academic lives requiring the use of Chinese.
Activities designed for the course include intensive drills on sounds and tones, vocabulary, grammatical constructions, and traditional and simplified characters in meaningful contexts. There is extensive practice in using Chinese in culturally authentic situations. Both pedagogically prepared texts and authentic materials including a wide variety of regalia will be used in this course.
Required Texts: T. Richard Chi, Beginning Mandarin Chinese: the Textbook, forthcoming, Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company. T. Richard Chi, Beginning Mandarin Chinese: the Workbook, forthcoming, Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company.
Recommended Dictionary: Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary, New Haven: Commercial Press.
Activities designed for the course include intensive drills on sounds and tones, vocabulary, grammatical constructions, and traditional and simplified characters in meaningful contexts. There is extensive practice in using Chinese in culturally authentic situations. Both pedagogically prepared texts and authentic materials including a wide variety of regalia will be used in this course.
Required Texts: T. Richard Chi, Beginning Mandarin Chinese: the Textbook, forthcoming, Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company. T. Richard Chi, Beginning Mandarin Chinese: the Workbook, forthcoming, Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company.
Recommended Dictionary: Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary, New Haven: Commercial Press.
- Term:
- Summer 2011
- Location:
- Adirondack House CLT(ADK CLT)
- Schedule:
- 7:00pm-11:59pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at ADK CLT (Jun 20, 2011 to Aug 12, 2011)
7:00pm-11:59pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at ADK LIB (Jun 20, 2011 to Aug 12, 2011)
7:00pm-11:59pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at ADK LNG (Jun 20, 2011 to Aug 12, 2011) - Type:
- Lecture
- Instructors:
- Wen-Hui Chen Tong Chen Abby Comstock-Gay Lijuan Guo Erica Pollard Ya Chin Wang Ying Yu
- Subject:
- Chinese
- Department:
- Chinese
- Division:
- Language School
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- Levels:
- Undergraduate, Non-degree
- Availability:
- View availability, prerequisites, and other requirements.
- Course Reference Number (CRN):
- 60062
- Subject Code:
- CHNS
- Course Number:
- 3104
- Section Identifier:
- A