Advanced Chinese 1

(4 Credits)

This course is designed to further develop proficiency in speaking and writing through readings on and discussions of socio-cultural topics relevant to today's China. The main focus is the improvement of reading comprehension and writing skills. The objectives are: to further improve oral communicative competence by incorporating semi-formal or formal usages; to acquire vocabulary and patterns necessary for conducting semi-formal or formal discussions of socio-cultural topics; to increase reading speed of texts with more advanced syntax; to learn to make context-based guesses about the meaning of a new word, conduct sentence analysis and solve textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write and present more fully developed narratives or reasoned and structured arguments; to learn to employ basic rhetorical methods; to learn to appreciate stylistic usage of Chinese language.