| source Yale (X) |
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department East Asian Lang and Lit (X) |
M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills L1 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Intended for students with no background in Chinese. An intensive course with emphasis on spoken language and drills. Pronunciation, grammatical analysis, conversation practice, and introduction to reading and writing Chinese characters.
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HTBA Fall 2009 Skills L1 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Intended for students with no background in Chinese. An intensive course with emphasis on spoken language and drills. Pronunciation, grammatical analysis, conversation practice, and introduction to reading and writing Chinese characters.
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills L1 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period First level of the advanced learner sequence, intended for students with some background in Chinese. An intensive course with emphasis on spoken language and drills. Pronunciation, grammatical analysis, conversation practice, and introduction to reading and writing Chinese characters. Placement confirmed by placement test on first day of class and by instructor.
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M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L3 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period An intermediate course that continues intensive training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing and consolidates achievements from the first year of study. Students improve oral fluency, study more complex grammatical structures, and enlarge both reading and writing vocabulary.
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HTBA Fall 2009 Skills L3 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period An intermediate course that continues intensive training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing and consolidates achievements from the first year of study. Students improve oral fluency, study more complex grammatical structures, and enlarge both reading and writing vocabulary.
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M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L3 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period The second level of the advanced learner sequence. Intended for students with intermediate to advanced oral proficiency and high elementary reading and writing proficiency. Students receive intensive training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, supplemented by audio and video materials. The objective of the course is to balance these four skills and work toward attaining an advanced level in all of them.
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M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L5 Permission of instructor required Third level of the standard foundational sequence of modern Chinese, with study in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Use of audiovisual materials, oral presentations, skits, and longer and more frequent writing assignments to assimilate more sophisticated grammatical structures. Further introduction to a wide variety of written forms and styles. Use of both traditional and simplified forms of Chinese characters.
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HTBA Fall 2009 Skills L5 Permission of instructor required Third level of the standard foundational sequence of modern Chinese, with study in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Use of audiovisual materials, oral presentations, skits, and longer and more frequent writing assignments to assimilate more sophisticated grammatical structures. Further introduction to a wide variety of written forms and styles. Use of both traditional and simplified forms of Chinese characters.
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MWF 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L5 Permission of instructor required Third level of the advanced learner sequence in Chinese. Intended for students with advanced speaking and listening skills (able to conduct conversations fluently on broad topics) and with high intermediate reading and writing skills (able to write 1,000-1,200 characters). Further readings on contemporary life in China and Taiwan, supplemented with authentic video materials. Class discussion, presentations, and regular written assignments. Texts in simplified characters with vocabulary in both simplified and traditional characters.
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MWF 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L5 Permission of instructor required Fourth level of the standard foundational sequence of modern Chinese, with study in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Readings in a wide range of subjects form the basis of discussion and other activities. Students consolidate their skills, especially speaking proficiency, at an advanced level. Materials use both simplified and traditional characters.
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MWF 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills L5 Permission of instructor required A survey of Chinese films of the past twenty years, optimized for language teaching. Texts include plot summaries, critical essays, and some scripts. Discussions, screenings, presentations, and writing workshops consolidate the four language skills.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 61) 12/14/2009 M 9.00 Skills L5 Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Selected readings in Chinese fiction of the past twenty years. Lectures, discussions, and written work in Chinese aim at integrated mastery of the modern language.
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MWF 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Skills L5 Permission of instructor required An advanced language course designed to continue the development of students? overall language skills through reading and discussion of modern short stories.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Skills L5 Meets during reading period Reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of literary Chinese (
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills L5 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Translation and discussion of classical essays: first, models of
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Readings in translation Major women writers in traditional China, as well as representations of women in works by male authors. Topics include the dichotomy of
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry and poetics.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required For students with advanced Chinese language skills who wish to engage in concentrated reading and research on literary works in a manner not otherwise offered in courses. The work must be supervised by a specialist and must terminate in a term paper or its equivalent. Ordinarily only one term may be offered toward the major or for credit toward the degree.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Preparation of a one-term senior essay under faculty supervision.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Preparation of a two-term senior essay under faculty supervision.
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CHNS 501 01 (10485) /WGSS770/WGSS405/CHNS201 TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 This course focuses on major women writers in traditional China, as well as representations of women in works by male authors. Topics include the dichotomy of yin and yang, women and the fox spirits, the power of women's writing, women in exile, Daoist nuns, widow poets, courtesans and the literati culture, women's poetry clubs, women's script (nushu), the cross-dressing ladies, footbinding and representations of the female body, food and sexuality, notions of qing (love), aesthetics of illness, women and revolution, and the function of memory in women's literature. All readings in translation; no knowledge of Chinese required.
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CHNS 560 01 (10487) /CHNS170 TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of literary Chinese (wenyan), with attention to basic problems of syntax and literary style. After CHNS 142b or 151b or equivalent.
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CHNS 581 01 (10488) /CHNS181 MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 We translate, study, and discuss classical essays: first, important models of
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CHNS 603 01 (10489) /CHNS303 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry and poetics. Primary readings in Chinese, lectures and discussion in English and Chinese. Because readings are different year to year, this course may be repeated for credit.
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CHNS 811 01 (10490) W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Examines fiction and literary criticism from the twentieth century to the present, with a focus on theories of diaspora, language, nationalism, and ethnicity, as well as on the different social and cultural contexts that engender modern Chinese literary writing in Chinese and/or other languages.
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