Critical Social Inquiry 0311 - Third Year Chinese I

This course will be taught by a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program, H.JIANG and supervised by K. Johnson. Students entering this class will be expected to have completed Intermediate Chinese or the equivalent of an intensive college-level second year Chinese language course. The class will cover the final chapters of Integrated Chinese Level 2, part 2 and then proceed to Reading Into A New China. Emphasis will be placed equally on speaking, reading, and writing. By the end of the Fall semester, students will be expected to have mastered all of the grammar patterns and characters (both recognition and writing from memory) introduced in the Integrated Chinese series, Levels 1 and 2 and Reading Into A New China, vol. 1. The second semester of Third Year Chinese will be offered during the spring semester.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Multiple Cultural Perspectives Pre-requisite: Completion of an intensive second year Chinese college course or equivalent is required to enter this class.