1011Fall2002

Chinese 1011, Summer 2007

Time: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.--12:05 p.m.

Place: 120 Nicholson Hall.

This is the first half of the intensive first-level Chinese language course series offered in the summer. The session lasts for five weeks (June 11-July 13). It is equivalent to the first regular semester of Beginning Modern Chinese taught at the University of Minnesota. The course teaches standard modern Chinese (Mandarin) to non-heritage speakers of the Chinese language. Students are introduced to the sounds of Mandarin, basic grammar, vocabulary, and the Chinese writing system. The class meets four class-hours a day, five days a week. At the end of this course, students who successfully complete the work should be able to pronounce and distinguish all Mandarin vowels, consonants, and tones in all syllables; understand and produce sentence structures introduced in the Textbook (see below); read simple dialogues on subjects covered in the Textbook; conduct simple conversations on topics covered in the Textbook; and recognize 500 Chinese characters, and write correctly about 100 of them from memory. Textbook: Integrated Chinese, Level One, Part One, 2nd Edition, Tao-chung Yao, et al., Cheng and Tsui Company, 2005.

Class time: 30% Lecture, 70% discussion.
Grade: 25% Attendacne, 25% Homework, 10% Quizzes, 15% Tests, 10% Midterm, 15% Final.
Exam Format: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Grammar.

Teaching Staff:

Principal Instructor: Wang, Ling (wangx333@umn.edu)
Teaching Specialist: Jin, Yaliang (jinx0017@tc.umn.edu)
Teaching Assistant: Du, Weihong (duxx0026@tc.umn.edu)

Office: 444 Folwell Hall

Telephones:

612 624-2366
612 626-9746
612 625-0047

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