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Compulsory courses
1.Intensive Chinese: The course is designed to teach you skills and rules for Chinese pronunciation and the reading and writing of Chinese characters; it discusses Chinese vocabulary and grammar and their applications and develops your proficiency in writing in Chinese. It is designed to help to learn in a comprehensive manner knowledge about Chinese language, thus laying a solid foundation for your application of what you have learned about Chinese. The course has 6-10 class periods per week and is offered at all three levels of beginner, intermediate and advanced classes.
2.Oral Chinese: In a very happy and relaxed classroom atmosphere and through explanation, demo and others methods and ample exercises, you gradually improve your Chinese communication ability, get to know the communication skills of the Chinese people. With the improvement of your language ability, you can express your personal view on a particular topic completely and frequently in standard Chinese. You also cultivate the habit of thinking in Chinese and the ability to choose the proper expressions for different persons you are talking to on proper occasions. In all, the resourcefulness to deal with various communication situations. The course has 4-6 class periods per week and is offered at all three levels of beginner, intermediate and advanced classes.
3.Listening: The course aims at improving your listening ability through systematic instruction and ample exercises. You can gradually learn to understand the real intent of the speaker in the conversion, enhance your ability to differentiate the words, to analyze, and summarize the speeches, as well as to make association and have educated guessing. In the course of study, you will be trained to understand the speeches delivered at faster and faster pace and the news broadcast of the familiar topics and popular radio and TV programs. Finally, you can understand Chinese spoken in real communication situation and at the same time, consciously picking up new words, phrases, and usages. In a word, the sensibility on real application and development of Chinese language. The course has 4 class periods per week and is offered at all three levels of beginner, intermediate and advanced classes.
4.Reading comprehension: The course aims to heighten your level of reading comprehension of Chinese through systemic instruction and ample exercises. You learn gradually to read literary readers of generic level, news reports, routine documents, public notices, letters, etc. By the end of the course, you should know how to by-pass barriers, understanding the message and major points, explain the clues, transitions and development of narrative articles in Chinese, how to summarize the theme by reading the topic, finding the key words and topic sentences. You should also have learnt the self-study ability of using dictionaries to remove barriers and of speeding up your reading. The course has 4 class periods per week and is offered at all three levels of beginner, intermediate and advanced classes.
Optional courses
Optional courses offered include: Chinese Pronunciation, Chinese Characters, Chinese Idioms, Computer Application in Chinese, Special Topics for HSK Test, Oral Business Chinese, Oral Minnan Dialect, Chinese Grammar, Chinese Lexicology, Selected Reading of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Introduction to Chinese Culture, Comparative Studies of Chinese and Foreign Chinese, General Survey of China, Chinese Folk Customs, Introduction to China’s Economy, and lecture series on different topics of Chinese culture. In addition, there are courses on Chinese Wushu (Shadow Boxing), Chinese Calligraphy & Painting, Chinese Music, etc. You can surely find the courses that interest you and suit your level of Chinese. |
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