Chinese IV (Regular)
Continuation of 21G.103 . For full description, see 21G.103 . Placement interview on or before Registration Day required of students who have had prior exposure to Chinese elsewhere. Limited to 16 per section. No listeners.
Spring 2018
Together with [21G.103 Chinese III](/courses/21g-103-chinese-iii-regular-fall-2018/), this course forms the intermediate level of what constitutes a four-term foundation in Mandarin. Upon completion of Chinese III and IV, students should be able to speak Chinese with fluency on everyday topics, reach a literacy level of 750 characters (approximately 1200 common words written in both traditional and simplified characters), read materials written in simple standard written Chinese, and produce both orally and in writing short compositions on everyday topics. Throughout the course we will address issues of how cultural differences inform and are informed by different linguistic contexts and practices.
Readings
- Cornelius C. Kubler, Intermediate Spoken Chinese . Tuttle Publishing, 2018. ISBN: 9780804850490
- Cornelius C. Kubler and Yang Wang, Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking and Listening Practice Book . Tuttle Publishing, 2018. ISBN: 9780804850506
- Cornelius C. Kubler, Intermediate Written Chinese . Tuttle Publishing, 2016. ISBN: 9780804840200
- Cornelius C. Kubler and Jerling Guo Kubler, Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials . Tuttle Publishing, 2018. ISBN: 9780804850520
Prerequisites & course information
Subject meets with 21G.154 Prereq: 21G.103 or permission of instructor U (Spring) 4-0-8 units. HASS-H
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2018
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.