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ASIALANG 101

FIRST SEMESTER CHINESE

4 credits.

Introduces the sounds, basic grammar along with 400 characters of standard spoken Chinese. It also teaches beginner-level communication skills in everyday life.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Not open to students with credit for ASIALANG 111 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Frgn Lang - 1st semester language Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Speak, recognize and spell Pinyin correctly. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Use Pinyin to type in Chinese on electronic devices. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and apply basic Chinese orthographic knowledge, including strokes, radicals, Chinese character structures, etc. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize and write about 250 new vocabulary items. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Learn and memorize beginning-level Chinese sentence patterns and grammar knowledge. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Use what students learned in class to conduct similar conversations and activities in various exercises and real life situations. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Speak, recognize and spell Pinyin correctly. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Use Pinyin to type in Chinese on electronic devices. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and apply basic Chinese orthographic knowledge, including strokes, radicals, Chinese character structures, etc. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize and write about 250 new vocabulary items. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Learn and memorize beginning-level Chinese sentence patterns and grammar knowledge. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Use what students learned in class to conduct similar conversations and activities in various exercises and real life situations. Audience: Undergraduate

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