Intermediate Chinese for Background Speakers B - ARTS2462
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ARTS2461
Excluded: ARTS2451
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
Description
Subject Area: Chinese Studies
This course is for background speakers at the Intermediate Level. It is open to students who are from an environment where Chinese, whether Mandarin, Cantonese or any other dialect, is or has been used, and who have completed Intermediate Chinese A, or acquired a reasonable level of spoken Chinese and a working knowledge of no less than 1000 characters. In this course, you will improve your Chinese skills in the areas of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and will make significant gains in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. You will also be introduced to cultural issues related to topics in the textbook, as well as topics in Chinese cultural history. In this course work on the internet is coordinated with class work in lectures and tutorials.