Elementary Chinese II

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

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.