1016Spring2006

Chinese 1016, Spring 2007

prerequisite: 1012 or 1015 or instructor consent; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 3021 or 3022; 5.0 cr

Instructor: Li, Chi-ping

As the second part Accelerated Modern Chinese course series, this course is the continuation of Chinese 1015. It is designed for students who are heritage speakers of Chinese and /or who can understand and speak modern Chinese. The purpose of this course is to help students improve their ability in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese. It particularly aims to help students develop more sophisticated vocabulary and enhance reading and writing ability in Chinese. As an accelerated course, we will cover the whole of second year Chinese within one semester, and the pace of the course will be approximately one lesson every three days. Students should be ready to take the Chinese GPT and/or take third year Chinese after this course.

Text book: Integrated Chinese, Level 2 (Cheng & Tsui Company)
Class time: 40% lecture, 50% discussion, 10% laboratory
Work load: 20 pages of reading per week, 5 pages of writing per semester, 6 exam(s), sentence and paragraph translation
Grade: 15% Mid-semester Exam, 15% Final exam(s), 10% Quizzes, 20% Class Participation, 20% Homework; 5% Vocab Quizzes; 5% Composition; 10% Tests
Exam format: Oral interview and performance, listening, reading, writing

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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