Chinese 1016

Accelerated Intermediate Modern Chinese

Spring 2008

Instructor：Li Chi-ping李篪平

Time： Monday～Friday 1:25～2:15 PM

Office： 444 Folwell Hall

Place： MWF Folwell Hall 218 TTh Fowell Hall 50

Phone： (612)626-9746

Email： lixxx204@umn.edu

Office Hours： Wed.2:30-3:30 Fri.12:00-1:00 or by appointment

Required textbook :

Textbook: Integrated Chinese, Level 2(2^nd edition) in two volumes (Textbook & Workbook) edited by YueHua Liu, Tao-chung Yao, et al. Cheng & Tsue Company, 1997. Available in the University Bookstore.

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

Click CHN1016, and then click Online Exercises

About the course:

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 have considerable prior experience with modern Chinese， especially good speaking ability. The purpose of this course is to help students improve the 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 LPE and/or take third year Chinese after this course. Specifically, students should be able to do the following after this course:

Listening & Speaking: Conduct fairly sustained conversations in Mandarin on everyday Topics.

Reading: Recognize about 1,200 Chinese characters (including those learned in the previous course), and read Chinese articles of some sophistication.

Writing: Write1,000 Chinese characters from memory. With both a pen and a computer, write composition in Chinese of about 300 characters on subject matters cover in Integrated Chinese, Level 2.

Attendance:

Attendance is 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 10 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 recording each time, and sometimes, recite assigned sentences in the texts before coming to class. Active participation in class activities and performance are required and graded (20% of the final grade).

Grading:

Attendance 10%

Class performance: 20%

(*)Homework: 20%

Vocabulary Quizzes: 5%

Quizzes and Tests: 15% Midterm: 15%

Final Exam: 15%

Total 100%

(*)Homework 20%

1. Chinese characters 5%

2. Writing composition 5%

4. Homework sheet 10%

A/F学生，成绩按照下面的方式计算：	A	≧ 93%
	A-	90%-92%
	B+	87%-89%
	B	83%-86%
	B-	80%-82%
	C+	77%-79%
	C	73%-76%
	C-	70%-72%
	D+	67%-69%
	D	60%-66%