Advanced Chinese for Heritage Learners
The course advances students' linguistic and cultural competence through the development of critical literacy skills. It guides students to become more sophisticated language users equipped with linguistic, pragmatic, and textual knowledge in discussions, reading, writing, and translation. Students reflect on the world and themselves through the lens of the target language and culture and become more competent in operating between English and Chinese and between American culture and Chinese culture.
Topics
- Chinese 100XA advances Chinese heritage language learners’ linguistic and intercultural competence. The course guides students to examine and interpret texts dealing with the lifestyles and beliefs of Chinese and American people, their past memories and pertinent political, economic, and social issues. In addition to comprehending text information, students learn how meanings are constructed through linguistic forms in social-cultural and historical contexts and understand how the world is perceived and conceived differently through language. The course helps students to expand their literacy from topics about daily routines to more intellectually and linguistically challenging issues, from an informal speaking and writing style to a more formal style, as well as from one version of orthography to a second one (from simplified to traditional characters or vice versa).
- Students learn to use the target language to comprehend and interpret texts, to compare and contrast frames of reference, and to discuss and present major social, political, and economic issues. Through this course, Chinese heritage language learners become more sophisticated language users equipped with linguistic, pragmatic, and textual knowledge in discussions, reading, writing, and carrying out translation. By reflecting on the world and themselves through the lens of the Chinese language and culture, they become more competent in shifting between English and Chinese and between American culture and Chinese culture.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
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Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027