Chinese (EALC)

This is the beginning course of the sequence of two three-credit courses, a sequence that covers the same materials as First Year Chinese I. This course is offered only in the spring semester. It is designed to help students who have not studied Chinese before become familiar with the Chinese phonetic system, the pinyin, and some of the most frequently used characters. Students will learn the basic rules of Chinese grammar and become acquainted with the basic language forms.

This course is a continuation of Elementary Chinese I. It is the second half of the two 3-credit course sequence (Elementary Chinese I and II) that covers the same materials as the 5-credit First Year Chinese I. Upon completion of this course, students will be ready to enroll in First Year Chinese II (5 credits) in the following spring semester. Students will continue their acquisition of the four basic language skills in Chinese: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Additional frequently used Chinese characters, vocabulary, and fundamental grammatical structures will be introduced. The emphasis of the course will be on accurate and appropriate communication in Mandarin Chinese.

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese using simplified characters with equal emphasis on the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. At the end of the first year, students may expect to comprehend and produce simple questions statements, high-frequency commands, and courtesy formulas; to pronounce learned vocabulary and short phrases with correct tones; to read simple texts and standardized messages, phrases, or expressions; and to master the pinyin Romanization and write simple expressions and short sentences in simplified characters. First Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in one MWF (EALC 10111) section and one TR (EALC 11111) lab.

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese using simplified characters with equal emphasis on the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. At the end of the first year, students may expect to comprehend and produce simple questions statements, high-frequency commands, and courtesy formulas; to pronounce learned vocabulary and short phrases with correct tones; to read simple texts and standardized messages, phrases, or expressions; and to master the pinyin Romanization and write simple expressions and short sentences in simplified characters. First Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students enrolling in a MWF section (for example EALC 10112 01) enroll in the corresponding TR lab (EALC 11112 01).

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for First Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading proficiency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the First Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

EALC 11111 is the lab corequisite for EALC 10111.

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese using simplified characters. Equal emphasis on the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students may expect to master a spoken vocabulary of about 1,000 words and a written vocabulary of 500 characters. EALC 11112 is the lab corequisite for EALC 10112.

This course has a total of 32 class-teaching hours and is an elementary Chinese language course for international graduate students throughout the school. This course is divided into two categories with different prerequisite expectations and enrollment procedure although sharing a same course code: (1¿One is a successive course of the Elementary Chinese A Course (Course code 64203012)¿which requires students to have learned Chinese for at least 48 hours and to have mastered about 200 Chinese vocabulary written in characters. Through the course learning, students will further expand their vocabulary and cultural awareness, master more complex grammar, and fluently communicate with others on topics such as weather, gift giving, and being guests. ¿2¿The other type is a real beginner course, only opened enrollment to those students who is studying in certain departments such as SPPM, EMBA and GMBA etc. The learner who enrolled this type of course needn't know Chinese language but are expected to build up basic and solid foundation of Mandarin Chinese linguistic knowledge and cultural awareness. Its learning objects and outcomes include to master the basic knowledge of Pinyin and pronunciation, the basic structure of Chinese characters and the proper stroke order of character writing, sentence structure, and be able to use the learned vocabulary and patterns to communicate on topics such as self-introduction, time, direction and schedule etc.

The goal of the course is to establish a solid foundation in Modern Chinese language through the integration of all 5 skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills. Characters, vocabulary, and grammatical patterns are learned through communicative contexts.

This course is equivalent to the second semester of the first year of language learning to provide an introduction to modern standard Chinese through the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. There is a concentration on correct pronunciation and the four tones as well as the basic grammatical patterns.

Taught as CCAN 1703 at a host institution. The course is designed to familiarize students with vocabulary and sentence structure of Cantonese intensively through contrasting the two languages: Cantonese and Putonghua. The courses are tailored-made for native Putonghua speakers. This course focuses on comprehensive language training including conversation and oral skills training in Cantonese. It covers the vocabulary and sentence structure of the textbook. Second Chinese language course.

In this course students will study the chapters of 16-20 in Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2. Building on the social language and customs studied in Chinese 103, this course will expand students' vocabulary, grammar and speech patterns on some important aspects of Chinese culture as they are integrated into daily life, including nightlife/dating in China, renting an apartment, sports, and travel (including air travel).

Taught at a host institution. This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have no prior knowledge of Cantonese. The course introduces students to present-day Cantonese, with an emphasis on learning correct pronunciation through the phonetic romanization transcription system and basic structure. It aims to develop fundamental oral communication skills through a variety of situational conversations in a highly interactive classroom.

This course is for students who have completed one year of college-level Chinese. Grammar review and training in the four basic skills to achieve higher levels of competence in speaking and listening for greater fluency in communication, reading for critical understanding, and the ability to accurately and appropriately convey basic ideas through written characters. Second Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in one MWF (EALC 20211) section and one TR (EALC 21211) lab.

This course is for students who have completed one year of college-level Chinese. Grammar review and training in the four basic skills to achieve higher levels of competence in speaking and listening for greater fluency in communication, reading for critical understanding, and the ability to accurately and appropriately convey basic ideas through written characters. Second Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students enrolling in a MWF section (for example, EALC 20212 01) enroll in the corresponding TR lab (EALC 21212 01).

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Second Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading proficiency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Second Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

EALC 21211 is the corequisite lab for EALC20211.

Grammar review and training in the four basic skills to higher levels of sophistication: oral-aural skills for fluency in communication, reading for critical understanding, and the ability to write simple compositions.

Taught as CHIN 2021 at host institution. This course is equivalent to the first semester of the second year language learning. Students at this level are trained to speak and write coherent and correct paragraphs rather than sentences, and to be able to communicate in Chinese regarding simple topics related to everyday life.

Taught as CHIN 2003. This course is equivalent to the second semester of the second year language learning. This course continues to develop students' Chinese abilities in listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural skills. Students' linguistic knowledge will be reinforced and expanded through class activities with increased sohpistication. Students at this level are required to comprehend and produce paragraph-level Chinese. Rigorous practice of spoken and writtten Chinese in complex communicative activities will be conducted in class.

This is an integrated course designed for students who are with advance Chinese level. This course covers twelve pieces of real authentic materials about different aspects of the society in modern China, such as Different Culture, Parents and Children, Face the Desert, etc. and emphasizes on improving the ability of the learners to use Chinese for communications, reading comprehension and writing assignments. Through plenty of special trainings, students will be strong in oral Chinese, know how to talk over social phenomenon with Chinese natives in real life with a good understanding of China.

The course has been reviewed by our Chinese language program and is equivalent to half of the content covered in 2nd Year Chinese II at ND.

Conversation Chinese

This course is intended for complete beginners who want to get a quick "bite" of Chinese language and culture. It will cover an introduction to the sound, writing, and grammatical systems of Chinese language, gives an insight into ancient versus modern Chinese culture and society, as well as introducing some basic conversational Mandarin Chinese over the course.

This course is designed for students who wish to learn the history of Chinese characters, understand the principles of formation, and appreciate the art of calligraphy. This class will be taught in English. No Chinese language proficiency is required. This class meets for 50 minutes per week. The class structure is a combination of lectures on Chinese characters, training in analyzing characters, and practice of Chinese calligraphy. The topics of the lectures include the origins of Chinese characters, the principles of formation, the romanization of Chinese characters, simplified characters vs. traditional characters, and the adaptation of characters to other languages, etc.

This course is designed for students who have completed two years of college-level Chinese. In addition to further consolidating and enhancing the skills that students have acquired in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, this course will prepare students to produce paragraph-level language (both spoken and written), using a wide range of quasi-authentic materials (slightly revised for language learners), including material from news media. Third Year Chinese I is a 3 credit course.

This course is designed for students who have completed two years of college-level Chinese. In addition to further consolidating and enhancing the skills that students have acquired in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, this course will prepare students to produce paragraph-level language (both spoken and written), using a wide range of quasi-authentic materials (slightly revised for language learners), including material from news media. Third Year Chinese I is a 3 credit course.

These serial courses are designed for those who wish to develop their Chinese oral proficiency into intermediate-high and advanced-low levels. The courses aim to further develop the learners' interpersonal and intercultural communication skills in Chinese. Meanwhile, they will help the learners develop a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and society through discussing a variety of topics. The topics include: air pollution, the Chinese Dream, soft power, anti-corruption, jingles, high-speed trains, knock-off goods, differences between city and countryside, left-behind children, migrant workers, Taiwan and Mainland China, and more. The students are expected to achieve the following goals upon completion of the course: Listening competency: Understand simple paragraph-length speech segments on topics related to cultural and/or social issues in China. Speaking competency: Engage in conversations and discussions of the issues mentioned above. Produce simple arguments and opinions in paragraph-length discourse. Develop more elaborate skills in description, comparison and narration.

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Third Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Third Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

Development of greater proficiency in conversational, reading and writing skills, using a wide range of authentic materials, including material from news media.

The course focuses on the development of greater proficient in conversational, reading, and writing skills, using a wide range of authentic materials, including material from news media.

An upper intermediate listening and speaking course in Putonghua, focusing on students fluency in speaking and appropriateness in usage. In addition to daily situations and semi-formal situations, students will also be introduced to various aspects of Chinese culture and society.

Students will develop their communicative and written competence in Chinese language past intermediate level and broaden their knowledge of China's cultural history. Students will become accurate in their use of the spoken language and focus on acquiring confidence in reading and writing traditional characters. They will hone these skills be reading material originally written for native speakers of the language.

This course is designed to help students understand China geographical landscapes, the important dynasties and significant historical events, influential national figures, Chinese religions and modern thoughts, social rituals and family structure, female role change in modern society, masterworks of literature and architecture, and China's political structure and foreign policy, China's interaction with the Western world and other subjects. All analysis and discussion will be put into modern context and students are required to follow closely to what is happening in modern China on a daily basis and put forward their views in relation with what has been learned in the class.

This undergraduate film seminar course will study East Asian cinema and its social and historical context mostly between the 1980s and early 2000s. We will focus primarily on three large topics/movements within East Asia: Slow Cinema, Neo-Noir, and contemporary short form film. Navigating the general arc of Trans-East Asian film history, we will learn to recognize the localized global through readings and films by prominent filmmakers such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar Wai, and Park Chan Wook, that define genres of East Asian film.

This course will incorporate authentic materials from a variety of sources, including newspaper articles, essays, short scenes from contemporary TV series, short fiction, and video clips that will expose students to different spoken and written styles of Chinese. Students will further develop their abilities in three modes of communication - interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive - and in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Chinese.

This course will incorporate authentic materials from a variety of sources, including newspaper articles, essays, short scenes from contemporary TV series, short fiction, and video clips that will expose students to different spoken and written styles of Chinese. Students will further develop their abilities in three modes of communication - interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive - and in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Chinese.

This course is an introduction to the Chinese sound and writing system, morphology, and syntax of the modern standard forms from a historical and linguistic perspective. The purpose of this course is to lead students who have the limited or no knowledge of Chinese to explore some interesting language phenomena by comparing Chinese and English, and to familiarize students with fundamental and systematical knowledge of the modern Chinese word formation and sentence structures.

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Fourth Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Fourth Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

This undergraduate film seminar course will study East Asian cinema and its social and historical context mostly between the 1980s and early 2000s. We will focus primarily on three large topics/movements within East Asia: Slow Cinema, Neo-Noir, and contemporary short form film. Navigating the general arc of Trans-East Asian film history, we will learn to recognize the localized global through readings and films by prominent filmmakers such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar Wai, and Park Chan Wook, that define genres of East Asian film.

A one-credit supplement to Fourth Year Chinese, required for international economics majors and optional (with permission of the instructor) for other Fourth Year students. This lab integrates the study of Chinese language and culture with the study of business and economics. Students will learn Chinese business customs as well as practical business terms, business writing, interview strategies, and business conventions and usage in a variety of contexts. Authentic materials, such as newspapers, magazine articles, television, and films, will be used to develop advanced reading and listening skills. By completing both semesters, students will deepen their understanding of Chinese society and business culture.

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed EALC 41411 or equivalent. It is required for international economics majors and optional for other students of Fourth Year Chinese or equivalent language proficiency. The course aims to enhance students' Chinese language skills in business context by integrating the study of Chinese language with an introduction to Chinese business environment and culture. Both traditional teaching methods and case study approach will be adopted. Students will be equipped with advanced vocabulary, practical business terms, common phrases and grammar patterns at the beginning of the class while studying the cases. After that, by discussing and analyzing the actual cases from real multinational companies in China, students will understand how to use the language to function properly in business environment, as well as gain comprehensive knowledge of the macro and micro economic situations and cultural background in China. In addition to the intensive reading of case texts, students will enhance their linguistic as well as cultural competence in business settings by reading and listening to authentic media materials in Chinese.

The emphasis of this course is on enhancing students' skills of developing speeches or writing essays on sophisticated topics. Students at this level are expected to express themselves not only fluently and accurately, but also literally and artistically. Depending on enrollment, this course may be structured to the individual needs of students.Through the course, students will reach the advanced-high level in listening and speaking, advanced-mid level in reading, and advanced-low level in writing, based on the ACTFL standard. Students will become familiar with extended discourse on concrete topics and gain ability to deal with abstract or professional, specialized topics, and to defend opinions.

Directed study of special topics under the direction of a faculty member. Agreement by the faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies required.