Intermediate Chinese for Advanced Beginners

(4 Credits)

This course is designed for students with intermediate level Mandarin speaking proficiency who can understand and speak, with near-standard pronunciation and without major grammatical errors, conversational Chinese related to daily life situations and simple sociocultural topics. The objectives are: 1) to be able to obtain information from extended written passages; 2) to both express and expound on, in relative length, feelings and opinions on common social and cultural topics; 3) to expand vocabulary and learn to decipher the meaning of compound words; 4) to develop reading comprehension of extended expository and simple argumentative passages; 5) to solve non-complex textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; 6) to write in relative length personal narratives, informational narratives, comparison and discussion of viewpoints with level appropriate vocabulary and grammatical accuracy, as well as syntactical cohesion; 7) to continue to become acquainted with aspects of Chinese culture and society related to the course materials. Prerequisite CHIN-SHU 111 Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners. This course is followed by Advanced Chinese I. Fulfillment: Core Curriculum Language.