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Accelerated Beginning Modern Chinese

Chinese 1015, Fall 2007

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Syllabus

Instructor： Li, Chi-ping 李篪平

Time： Monday～Friday 1:25～2:15pm

Office： 444 Folwell Hall

Classroom: Folwell Hall 218

Phone： (612)626-9746

Email： lixxx204@umn.edu

Office Hours： Mon.5:00-6:00pm and Fri.3:30-4:30pm or by appointment

Required texts

Textbooks: Integrated Chinese, Level 1, both Part One and Part Two, each part in three volumes (Textbook, Workbook, and Character Workbook) edited by Tao-chung Yao, YueHua Liu, et al. Cheng & Tsui Company, 2005. Available at the University Bookstore in Coffman Union plaza.

CD set: Available online http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese_language/Courses/class_list.html

Click CHN1015, and then click Online Exercises

Additional TV Resource: The Chinese Program has subscribed to a Chinese TV program, Phoenix TV, which is available in the CLA Language Center in 135 Jones Hall every Tuesday. It offers all kinds of Chinese news, Chinese learning programs, and Chinese entertaining programs. You’re encouraged to take advantage of this resource.

About the Course

This course is designed for heritage speakers of Chinese and for students who have the basic skill of speaking Chinese. The course will focus on standard pronunciation, reading, and writing, and spend less time on grammatical explanation. The lectures cover Chinese characters and sentence structures. In the drill session, we will practice the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each student is expected to purchase blank CDs to record his/her own voice of reading the texts. Although the lectures may contain some English, the drills are all 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 every two days. By the end of the semester, students should be able to make fluent conversations in Chinese, recognize 600 Chinese characters, write 500 of them, and read texts that are clear and straightforward. The course URL is: http://www.all.umn.edu/chinese%5Flanguage/Courses/class_list.html

Attendance and Performance

Attendance and performance are extremely important for our class, which takes 30% of the final grade. The attendance (10%) and class participation and performance (20%) grade will be based on preparation, regular attendance, and effort. Students will lose points for unexcused absences, tardiness, and poor classroom attitude. Tardiness disturbs the class and is strongly discouraged. Entering the classroom five minutes after the class starts is considered tardiness. Three times of tardiness constitute one absence. Three unexcused absences are allowed in a semester. After the first three unexcused absences, students will lose all the 30 points of the day for each additional unexcused absence. Students are not allowed to make up quizzes or tests missed unless a valid excuse slip (e.g. a doctor’s note) is presented certifying the student’s inability to take the exam/quiz at the schedule time.

Assignments

Preparation: Students are required to study vocabulary, grammar notes, texts, and Listen to the original recording of the texts each time. Active participation in class activities and performance are required and graded (20% of the final grade).

Reciting: Recite from memory assigned sentences (5-10 lines) in class.

CD: Record your own reading of the text on a CD.

Written homework: Do the homework in the Workbook as assigned and write passages and short essays.

Character and writing: Write the words in the Character Workbook of each lesson as assigned. Students are required to write at least 5 pieces of a short article in this semester.

Grading

Attendance and class performance: 30%

Homework 20%

Vocabulary Quizzes: 5%

Quizzes and Tests: 15%

Midterm: 15%

Final Exam: 15%

Total 100%

Important: 1. No make-up quiz, test, or exam will be given except in case of

demonstrated medical reason.

2. All assigned homework should be handed in before or at the

beginning of the class ( Don't work on your homework in class. Doing so forfeits the "class participation" portion of your grade. )

Homework handed in on time will be corrected, graded, and returned

promptly. Late homework will be corrected but will receive no grade

except in case of demonstrated medical reason.

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