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| CHINESE 1B | FUNDAMNTLS MANDARIN | STAFF | 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 | WU, D. | 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 | MENG, Y. | 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 | HONGLOU MENG | HUANG, M. | This course will focus on the 18th century Chinese classic novel Honglou Meng (The Story of the Stone or the Dream of the red Mansion). The reading will be in Chinese and the class is conducted in Chinese. Short papers, quizzes and exams. NOTE: All the courses from first through third year Japanese focus on the development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing with an emphasis on communicative language use that also reveals features of Japanese culture. Classes are conducted entirely in Japanese exept when English explanation is necessary. |
| CHINESE 211B | CHINESE FICTION | HUANG, M. | This is a graduate course designed to introduce the students to some of the major issues in the field of the study of Chinese fiction, such as the generic nature of Chinese fiction, its history, and its relationships with other literary and non-literary genres. Another main goal of this course is to get students acquainted with various approaches adopted by different scholars in the field, their achievements and the possible pitfalls. An emphasis of this course will be on studying Chinese fiction as a cultural phenomenon conditioned by specific historical contingencies. In other words, Chinese fiction should never be viewed as a purely literary phenomenon detached from historical and cultural contexts.
This is a two-quarter sequence course. In the first half of the fall quarter, focus will be on various secondary works and the second half of the quarter will be devoted to the reading of some representative works of Chinese fiction. For the fall quarter, only short written assignments (close reading exercises and reports) are required. During the winter quarter, students are supposed to work on their respective research projects under the close supervision of the instructor. The research project is expected to result in a substantial research paper (25 pages) by the end of the winter quarter. |
| CHINESE 213A | NIEHAI HUA AS TEXT | HU, Y. | This is a course on the methodologies of critical textual analysis. We will use a late Qing novel Niehai hua as our common textual basis while exploring different schools of close reading. The schools we will sample include: New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, and the traditional Chinese method of Marginalia. Our goal is to learn to read any given text closely and analyze it critically. Students are required to implement the analytical methods as we continue our reading by writing short papers on Niehai hua. In the second course, i.e. CH 211B, we will treat the same novel as a historical text while exploring various approaches generally labeled as cultural studies. |