Middlebury

CHNS3402A-L10

Advanced Chinese II

This course is designed to help students comprehend and produce discourse-level Chinese characterized by factual, as well as abstract, elaboration on most familiar and some unfamiliar topics. Authentic materials are used exclusively and the course is conducted in Mandarin Chinese. It is designed for students who have completed three years of training in all four skills.

In this course, students will read rigorously both literary and non-literary texts written in advanced shumianyu language on a wide range of topic areas related to current events, social sciences, history and literature. Students will be required to write extensively in the expository style, and their written work will be corrected and discussed in individual sessions.

Required texts: An Advanced Course in Chinese, forthcoming, Yale University Press.

Recommended Dictionaries: Deng, G., Ed., A New English-Chinese Dictionary, University of Washington Press; Deng, G., Ed., A New Chinese-English Dictionary, University of Washington Press.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60090
Subject Code:
CHNS
Course Number:
3402
Section Identifier:
A

Course

CHNS 3402

All Sections in Summer 2010

Summer 2010

CHNS3402A-L10 Lecture (Wu, Li, Wang, Zhang)