CHINESE 100XB
Advanced Chinese for Heritage Learners
Advanced Chinese 100XB is designed for Chinese heritage language learners who have taken Chinese 100XA or an equivalent level of Chinese. It further develops students’ linguistic and intercultural competence through working with texts that deal with cross-strait relations, Chinese people’s style of living, their changing lifestyles and mindsets as well as with migrant workers who have been deeply involved in the economic reforms that have taken place in mainland China. The texts also include a survey of China’s modernization in its early modern times and as well three historical figures from this period.
Topics
- The course focuses on linguistic, cognitive, and social dimensions of language use in an integrated way and prepares students to interpret language use in multiple contexts. Attention is paid to the relationships among particular text types and purposes and the particular conventions of reading and writing in various contexts. It deals with discourse and not only provides students with structured guidance in the thinking that goes into reading, writing, and speaking appropriately for particular contexts, but it also encourages learners to take an active and critical stance to the discourse conventions and to construct meanings.
- The development of critical literacy enables students to understand more about people, culture, and history in the target society and themselves as well as about the power of language and to enhance their translingual and transcultural competence in intercultural communication.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027