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| CHINESE 1B | FUNDAMNTLS MANDARIN | WU, D. | Innovative content-based approaches with emphasis on the four fundamental skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Three separate tracks (Mandarin, Dialect, and No-Background) are offered to accommodate students with different language backgrounds. Taught in Mandarin Chinese using the Pinyin system of Romanization and full form characters. Weekly quizzes, listening and speaking tests, skits, group activity and final exam. Throughout the quarter, students will (1) Learn to read and write with the Pinyin System; (2) Learn about 400 Chinese characters and 900-1000 phrases; (3) Make sentences with vocabulary and sentence patterns learned in classes; (4) Participate in short dialogues, discussions and conversations; (5) Write notes, dialogues, articles and skits. The goal of this course is to achieve basic proficiency in Mandarin Chinese in order to communicate with speakers of Chinese in daily conversation about common topics and to read short passages about simple matters from both authentic materials and pedagogically prepared materials. Culture notes and knowledge of appropriate behaviors in a Chinese-speaking society will also be introduced. Prerequisite: Completion of Chinese 1A or equivalent; Authorization to enroll can be obtained in HIB 452 or 466. |
| CHINESE 2B | INTERMED MANDARIN | PETERSEN, Y. | The Chinese 2A-2B-2C series will use both authentic materials from a wide variety of sources within the culture and pedagogically-prepared materials to further develop students\' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and the ability to use the language to communicate in culturally, socially and linguistically appropriate ways. Two separate tracks (Background and N0-Background) are offered to accommodate students with different language backgrounds. Throughout the series advanced grammatical patterns will be gradually introduced and reviewed. By the end of the series, students are expected to: (1) Develop reading comprehension from a wide selection of authentic materials; (2) Handle reasonably complicated survival situations; (3) Read and write paragraph length narrations and descriptions of real life events, as well as expositions and argumentations concerning real or hypothetical issues. Taught in Mandarin Chinese using the Pinyin system of Romanization and full form characters. Weekly quizzes and assignments, oral report, and final exam. Classroom activities include open discussions, debates, skits, game playing, movie watching, and group projects. Prerequisite: Completion of Chinese 2A or equivalent; authorization to enroll can be obtained in HIB 452 or 466. |
| CHINESE 3B | ADVANCED MANDARIN | HU, J. | The Chinese 3A-3B-3C series is a continuation of the Chinese 2 series. Emphasis is placed on advanced conversation to improve the ability to communicate in expected and unexpected situations. Readings are based on modern Chinese prose and newspapers, with focus on academic skills. Emphasis is also placed on self-expression in problem-solving tasks, defense of decisions and classroom discussions. Presentations, weekly essays, debates, quizzes and final examination are included. Prerequisite: Chinese 3A or equivalent. Authorization code can be obtained in HIB 466. |
| CHINESE 100B | CLASSICAL CHINESE | FULLER, M. | The second term of an introduction to classical Chinese both emphasizes close analysis of grammatical structures and increasingly attends to rhetorical features. This term begins with simple, well-known stories and gradually introduces more complex texts. Taught as a language course, the class stresses daily preparation and the detail of wen yan usage rather than English translation per se. There are biweekly quizzes and translations as well as a final exam. The classes are conducted in English. Prerequisite: Chinese 100A |
| CHINESE 101B | 4TH YEAR MANDARIN | HUANG, M. | This is a course designed for students who have successfully completed Chinese 101A or the equivalent. We will do intensive reading in a variety of genres (short stories, essays, news articles, etc.) The emphasis will be on reading comprehension although considerable attention will also be devoted to writing. A student is expected to preview carefully each reading assignment. There will be frequent pop quizzes, mid and final exams. Except for those who have taken Chinese 101A in the fall quarter, a student will have to be screened by the instructor during the first day of class before he or she is permitted to enroll in this class. Exams and pop quizzes. |
| CHINESE 115 | READINGS IN CHINESE LITERATURE | HU, Y. | A reading course designed for students with near fluency in reading Chinese. Readings may include both literary and philosophical work by omportant writers, but the emphasis will be on literary text and writings that interpret those texts. Prerequisite: Chinese 101C or consent of instructor. May be taken for credit three times as topic varies. |
| CHINESE 203 | LIT THEMES IN MODERN CHINA | MENG, Y. | This course addresses the question of how to conceive urbanism and city in the context of China from the late imperial period into the early twentieth-century. The course takes the city as the crucible of motifs which needed to be explored in order to further our understanding of culture, history, and the world where China is relevant. It focuses primarily on the issues that reflecting the changing relationships between urbanism and modernity or alternative modernity, city plan and nation-building, urban semiotics and social reality. We will begin by familiarizing ourselves with key theoretical tools and recent debates about the meanings of city and Chinese city. These will be contextualized and tested with scholarly historical writings that investigate the social, political, and cultural factors that shaped urban life. We will also be reading on how the cities are experienced and represented in “soft” forms such as literature, film and popular culture. |
| CHINESE 213A | USES OF TRADITION: LATE QING TO EARLY MAY-FOURTH | HU, Y. | This course examines the reinterpretations of the Chinese cultural tradition that occurred during the first thirty years of the 20th century. We closely read selections of major thinkers of the time, including Liang Qichao, Zhang Binglin and Lu Xun; we sample works that formally or thematically concern themselves with reflections on tradition, including literary history, fiction and biography. We also keep abreast of recent scholarship on this period, including works by Chinese and western scholars, and including works by scholars of pre-modern and modern literature.
The questions we ask are: What is the post-May-Fourth image of “traditional China”? How did we get here? How do we reconstruct the available cultural resources around the turn of the century? What were the main issues of debate concerning ‘tradition’ at the time? How did selective reinterpretations of the past correspond to the historical specifics of early 20th century China and the various imaginary ‘modernities’ current at the time? What does the recent critique of the “May-Fourth project” tell us about re-organization of disciplinary knowledge in our own fields? |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | HUANG, M. | For students who have been admitted to doctoral candidacy. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated for credit. |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | HU, Y. | For students who have been admitted to doctoral candidacy. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated for credit. |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | MENG, Y. | For students who have been admitted to doctoral candidacy. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated for credit. |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | FULLER, M. | For students who have been admitted to doctoral candidacy. Satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated for credit. |