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CHIN 101 - INTRODUCTORY CHINESE I Credits: 5 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/lchen/101/course_10106fX.html For students with no background in Chinese. Students will learn Pinyin writing system, vocabulary and structure required for basic communicative tasks. Students will learn to write approximately 300 Chinese characters. Chinese culture will be introduced. Weekly laboratory assignment and tutorial participation are required to receive full credit. No prior knowledge of Chinese required. Credit may not be received for both CHIN 101 and CHIN 222. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 102 - INTRODUCTORY CHINESE II Credits: 5 Continuation of CHIN 101. More attention will be paid to the Chinese characters while conversation skills still receive priority. Weekly laboratory assignment and tutorial participation are required. Students will learn to write approximately 200 Chinese characters and be able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. Credit may not be received for both CHIN 223 and CHIN 102. Recommended Prerequisites: CHIN 101 or CHIN 222. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 201 - ELEMENTARY CHINESE I Credits: 4 Continuation of CHIN 102. Emphasis on reading, writing, and speaking for personal needs. Weekly attendance in the language lab and participation in weekly tutorials are required. Students will be familiar with approximately 300 characters at the end of the course, and able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. Recommended Prerequisites: CHIN 102 or CHIN 223. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 202 - ELEMENTARY CHINESE II Credits: 4 Continuation of CHIN 201. Emphasis on developing oral fluency at the sentence level, reading articles, and cultivating a socio-cultural understanding of the Chinese-speaking society. Upon completion, students expected to be able to write approximately 400 characters and perform communicative tasks, surrounding basic personal needs, appropriate to this range of characters. Class conducted primarily in Chinese and a weekly tutorial is required to receive full credit. Recommended Prerequisite: CHIN 201. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 203 - INTERMEDIATE CHINESE CONVERSATION Credits: 3 Three week semi-immersion intermediate Chinese course on listening and speaking with minimal emphasis on the learning of characters. Course aims to help students develop oral fluency at the sentence-to-paragraph level and the ability to perform communicative tasks to satisfy various personal and social needs through classroom activities and lab assignments. Intensive conversational course for enhancing aural/oral proficiency or in preparation for internships or study-abroad in Chinese-speaking societies. Course conducted in Chinese. Recommended prerequisite(s): Two semesters of Chinese or permission of the instructor. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 211 - ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY CHINESE I Credits: 4 For students with some background in spoken Chinese but with limited writing ability. Introduces the Chinese writing system and the use of Chinese dictionaries. Students will be familiar with approximately 350 characters at the end of the course, and able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 212 - ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY CHINESE II Credits: 4 Increasing attention paid to more formal narrative texts. Writing focused on personal needs, with some attention to social correspondence. Students will be familiar with approximately 400 characters at the end of the course, and able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. Recommended Prerequisite: CHIN 211. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 215 - CLASSICAL CHINESE Credits: 3 This course develops students a reading knowledge of classical Chinese through studying selected original passages from the great classic texts of Chinese literature, history and philosophy. The lectures are in English. The understanding of classical Chinese improves reading proficiency and writing skill in modern written language. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 222 - AP CREDIT IN CHINESE LANGUAGE Credits: 4 This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both CHIN 222 and CHIN 101. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 223 - AP CREDIT IN CHINESE LANGUAGE Credits: 4 This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both CHIN 223 and CHIN 102. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 301 - INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I Credits: 4 Continuation of CHIN 202, for students whose home language is not Chinese. Oral skills cultivated through discussion after reading narrative texts and writing focused on techniques necessary for satisfying personal and social needs. Upon completion, students expected to be able to write approximately 550 characters and be able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 302 - INTERMEDIATE CHINESE II Credits: 4 Continuation of CHIN 301, emphasis on developing oral fluency at the paragraph level and cultivating writing skills as more authentic materials and socio-cultural topics are introduced. Upon completion, students expected to be able to write approximately 800 characters and perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. Recommended Prerequisite: CHIN 301. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 303 - CHINESE FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION Credits: 3 Continuation of CHIN 302. Intermediate course designed to help students improve aural comprehension and oral competence by the use of audio, video, and internet materials with little emphasis on reading and writing. Focuses on modern standard Chinese in socio-cultural context and aims to help students develop the aural/oral abilities to perform communicative tasks through classroom activities and laboratory assignments. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 311 - ACCELERATED INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I Credits: 3 Emphasis on reading narrative texts, and understanding authentic oral texts. Writing assignments stress skills necessary for basic personal needs and tasks necessary for writing social correspondence. At the completion of 311, students will be able to write approximately 700 Chinese characters, and be able to perform communicative tasks appropriate to this range of characters. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 312 - ACCELERATED INTERMEDIATE CHINESE II Credits: 3 Continuation of CHIN 311. More emphasis on reading narratives, comprehending authentic oral texts, and speaking in more formal contexts. Writing assignments stress skills necessary for expressing arguments on socio-cultural topics. At the completion of CHIN 312, students will be able to write approximately 1000 Chinese characters. Recommended prerequisite(s): Ability to write approximately 700 characters assumed. Recommended Prerequisites: CHIN 302 or CHIN 311. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 313 - MEDIA CHINESE: CURRENT ISSUES Credits: 3 Advanced intermediate course, designed to familiarize students with the language of print and broadcast media with a focus on news media. Students will learn strategies and tactics applicable to newspaper reading and skills essential for understanding news broadcasting and discuss current events in the Chinese-speaking societies. Introduction to Classical Chinese discourse as related to modern Chinese media discourse also included. Recommended prerequisite(s): Ability to write 800 characters assumed. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 314 - CONTEMPORARY CHINA: CULTURE AND SOCIETY SINCE 1978 Credits: 3 The objective of this course is two-fold. First, this writing/reading intensive course aims at advancing the students' overall language proficiency to Intermediate High. Second, this course is designed to enhance the students' understanding of the social and cultural transformation in contemporary China that resulted from the Economic Reform of 1978. Recommended Prerequisites: CHIN 311 or CHIN 302. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 315 - TAIWAN'S FILMS SINCE 1980: ART, CULTURE, SOCIETY AND LANGUAGE Credits: 3 This course discusses influential Taiwanese films since 1980 as pieces of artwork and as reflections of Taiwan's cultural, social, economic, and political changes in the past three decades. Language assignments are designed to help students develop proficiency in reading authentic materials, writing essays, and giving reports. Current collaborations among Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong in film productions also included. Cross-list: ASIA 315. Recommended Prerequisites: CHIN 302 or CHIN 312. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 318 - MEDICAL CHINESE Credits: 3 Emphasis on communication skills in situations related to health care in Chinese and American contexts. Basic traditional concept and theory (as in herbal medicine, acupuncture, and folk belief) in traditional Chinese medical practices will be explored. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 321 - STRUCTURE OF CHINESE: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/lchen/Chin321/321home.html Examination of syntactic and semantic features of Chinese with special attention to contrastive analysis of selected topics of Chinese and English, including expressions of tense and aspect, conditional and counterfactual, word formation (morphology), the notion of syntactic category, grammaticalization, metaphor, Chinese writing system and sociolinguistics. Taught in English. Cross-list: LING 321. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 322 - TAIWANESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Credits: 3 This course contains two parts running concurrently every week. Part one focuses on language acquisition. Online textbook is Taiwanese on Campus, by L. Chen. Emphasis is on daily, practical expressions. Part two is an examination of Taiwanese nativist literature with special attention to its language/cultural and political/historical background. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 330 - INTRODUCTION TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE POETRY Credits: 3 This course seeks to decode enchanting features of traditional Chinese poetry through examining the transformation of poetic genres, the interaction between poetic creation and political, social and cultural changes, and the close association of poetry with art. Thus, this course also serves to understand Chinese culture and history through poetic perspectives. All readings in English translation. Cross-list: ASIA 330, MDST 370. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 331 - CHINESE IN CULTURAL DISCOURSE Credits: 3 A study of Chinese in mostly Classical Chinese texts. Prose and poetry are examined for linguistic structure and cultural symbolism. Diachronic linguistic perspective and cultural comparison are adopted. Taught in English, but prior experience of two years of Chinese required. A required course for students in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Cross-list: ASIA 333. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 332 - CHINESE LITERATURE AND ITS MOVIE ADAPTATIONS Credits: 3 Exploration of modern Chinese literature through the visual imagery of Chinese films to show how and why different time periods and different media affect the theme of a story. One third covers movie adaptations of classical Chinese literature. Films subtitled in English, shown outside of class. All readings in English translation. Cross-list: ASIA 332. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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CHIN 334 - TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES AND SHORT STORIES Credits: 3 Learning Chinese literature and culture through reading vernacular stories, fantastic tales, biographies, and philosophical parables. Discussion topics: literature and Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism; literature and history; self and other; fantastic world and reality; women as domestic aliens and aliens portrayed as women, etc. Readings are in English translation. Cross-list: ASIA 334. College: School of Humanities Department: Chinese
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