Chn1015Fall2003

Chinese 1015, Fall 2002

Prerequisite: instructor consent; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 1011 or 1012;, 5 cr

Instructor: Lin, Shuhui

This course is designed for undergraduate students who are heritage speakers of Chinese. The course will focus on conversation, reading, and character writing, and spend less time on grammar explanation. The lectures cover Chinese characters and words, as well as sentence patterns. In the drill sessions, students will practice the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. The first two weeks of the semester are devoted to the Chinese phonetic system--pinyin, and to pronunciation. Beginning from the third week, the lectures and drill sessions will be conducted in Chinese. Since this is an accelerated course, we will cover the whole of first-year Chinese within one semester, and the pace of the course will be approximately one lesson a week. By the end of the semester, students are expected to be able to conduct a fairly sustained conversation, recognize and write about 700 Chinese characters, read texts of some sophistication, and write short compositions in Chinese.

Textbook: "Integrated Chinese", Level One, Part One and Part Two, by Tao-chung Yao, Yuehua Liu et al, published by Cheng & Tsui Company, 1997.
Class URL: http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese_language

Class time: 30% lecture, 55% discussion, 5% laboratory, 10% Video and other multi-media
Work load: 10 pages of reading per week, 2-3 pages of writing per semester, 6 exam(s), Listening, taped reading, written homework
Grade: 20% class participation, 10% quizzes, 5% in-class presentation(s), 15% Tests, 25% homework, 10% Mid-term, 15% Final

If you have any question regarding this course, please contact the instructor by sending an email to the instructor or by calling Lin Laoshi at 612-626-9746.

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