Modern Chinese 7

This is an advanced Modern Chinese language course, designed for students who have completed successfully CHIN3023 (Modern Chinese 6), or achieved the equivalence through placement test. While the course places special emphasis on reading comprehension of the selected texts, it will also expose the students to live videos which are in natural native Chinese in order to enhance students’ listening and oral proficiency. The course is taught mainly in Chinese. Three contact hours per week with a 90-minute lecture and 90-minute tutorial which will start from the first week. Given the amount of the material it covers, the learning outcome of the course relies on students’ self-study and pre-class preparation. The assessment consists of weekly mini-quizzes, oral news report in Chinese, team project in the form of oral presentation, one Vlog in Chinese and a final written exam. The teaching material for this course are from authentic Chinese sources, including audio-visual materials, which cover broad areas of Chinese studies in culture, literature, society, economics and politics. By introducing students to a wide range of topics, different genre and written styles, this course aims at not only improving students’ reading, listening, speaking and their analytical skills in Chinese, but also gaining a deeper understanding of aspects of modern and contemporary China. The course will also cover the rules of the Chinese word-formation and other Chinese linguistic features. This is a research-let and multi-disciplinary advanced language course. It utilizes the expertise of the lecturer who researches in the field of Chinese social and political discourses. It is reflected in course design which combines language learning with opportunity to investigate the deep connections between language, culture, history and politics in China.