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Advanced Chinese I


Course Description

Advanced grammar, reading, conversation, and composition. Not open to native speakers.


Athena Title

Advanced Chinese I


Prerequisite

CHNS 2002 or permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

Students will hone reading, writing and conversational skills in Modern Chinese, and prepare for more advanced studies at the university and in China. Students will understand the rapid expansion of vocabulary and increased facility with complex grammar structures. Students will practice more advanced conversational styles and begin to work with formal written Chinese.


Topical Outline

Unit 1: Discussing Sports Competitions forms for comparison, written style, literary prepositions Unit 2: Family directional complements indicating state, potential complements and optatives, topicalization Unit 3: Male-Female Equality forms for describing similarity, area or scope, changes in circumstance; emphatic forms Unit 4: Health and Insurance multiple attributives, indicating confirmation, reduplication of measure words


General Education Core

CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture

Syllabus