Course Description
A continuation of Advanced Chinese I. Not open to native speakers.
Athena Title
Advanced Chinese II
Prerequisite
CHNS 3010 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
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: Education exaggeration, passive forms, emphatic negation, appropriateness Unit 2: Crime and Firearms enumerative phrases, forms for describing chance Unit 3: Animal Rights forms for describing cause, literary conjunctions Unit 4: Environment review of interrogatives, forms for indicating frequency
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus