Spring

CHIN 20403 Advanced Modern Chinese III

The goal of this sequence is to help students develop advanced proficiency in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. This sequence emphasizes more advanced grammatical structures, and requires discussion in Chinese on topics relevant to modern China. Over the course of this sequence, the emphasis will shift to authentic Chinese texts in an effort to better prepare students to deal with orginal Chinese source materials. Class meets for five one-hour sessions each week.

Prerequisites

CHIN 30200 or placement. Undergraduates must take for a quality grade.

CHIN 22130 Second-Year Chinese for Heritage Students III

This three-quarter sequence is intended for bilingual/heritage speakers of Mandarin Chinese. Paralleled with the Intermediate sequence for non-heritage speakers, the goal of this sequence is to further develop students’ reading, speaking, and writing skills by dealing with topics in personal settings and some academic or professional settings. Upon completing this sequence, students are expected to pass the Practical Proficiency Test to earn a certificate on their transcript. The class meets for three one-hour sessions a week.

Prerequisites

CHIN or placement.  Must be taken for a quality grade

2022-2023 Spring

CHIN 20300 Intermediate Modern Chinese III

Part 3 of this sequence aims to enhance students' reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills by dealing with topics at an intermediate linguistic level. In addition to mastering the content of the textbook, students are required to complete two language projects each quarter. Chinese computing skills are also taught. Class meets for five one-hour sessions each week.

Prerequisites

CHIN 20200 or placement. Undergraduate must take for a quality grade.

CHIN 11300 First-Year Chinese for Heritage Students III

Part 3 of this three-quarter sequence introduces the fundamentals of modern Chinese to bilingual speakers. Bilingual Speakers are those who can speak Chinese but do not know how to read or write. By the end of the spring quarter, students should have a basic knowledge of Chinese grammar and vocabulary. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are equally emphasized. Accurate pronunciation is also stressed. A video project is required in spring quarter, which will be entered in the competition for the Chinese Video Project Award. Class meets for three one-hour sessions each week MWF.

Prerequisites

Undergraduates must take for a quality grade.

2022-2023 Spring

CHIN 10300 Elementary Modern Chinese III

Part 3 of this three-quarter sequence introduces the fundamentals of modern Chinese. By the end of the spring quarter, students should have a basic knowledge of Chinese grammar and vocabulary. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are equally emphasized. Accurate pronunciation is also stressed. A video project is required in spring quarter, which will be entered in the competition for the Chinese Video Project Award. Class meets for five one-hour sessions each week. Additional small group discussions of 40 minutes per week will be arranged. Maximum enrollment for each section is 18. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted.

Prerequisites

Undergraduate must take for a quality grade. Small group discussion of 40 minutes per week will be arranged.

EALC 41102 Reading Archival Documents from the People’s Republic of China

(HIST 41102)

This hands-on reading and research course aims to give graduate students the linguistic skills needed to locate, read, and analyze archival documents from the People's Republic of China. We will begin by discussing the functions and structure of Chinese archives at the central, provincial, and county level. Next we will read and translate sample documents drawn from different archives. These may include police reports, personnel files, internal memos, minutes of meetings, etc. Our aim here is to understand the conventions of a highly standardized communication system - for example, how does a report or petition from an inferior to a superior office differ from a top-down directive or circular, or from a lateral communication between adminstrations of equal rank? We will also read "sub-archival" documents, i.e. texts that are of interest to the historian but did not make it into state archives, such as letters, diaries, contracts, and private notebooks. The texts we will read are selected to cast light on the everyday life of "ordinary" people in the Maoist period. The target group for the course are graduate students and advanced undergraduates with good Chinese reading skills.

Prerequisites

Advanced Chinese reading skills.

2021-2022 Spring

CHIN 20510/41000 Advanced Readings in Literary Chinese III

(EALC 41000)

The course will cover a selection of works in biji and zaji form from the Song to Qing dynasties. Part of the interest of the form is its inclusiveness, which has made it hard to place on maps of genre. These works include scientific investigation, social commentary, travel accounts, classical interpretation, personal reminiscences, tales and gossip, art appreciation, responses to poetry, and many other things, combined in an apparently associative manner. We will read both for topical interest and for understanding of the form.

Prerequisites

Usually preceded by Chinese 408 and/or 409. 

Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Undergraduate enrollment is encouraged. CHIN 40900, or CHIN 21000, or placement, or consent of instructor.

Not offered every year; quarters vary.

2022-2023 Spring

CHIN 20510/41000 Intermediate Literary Chinese III

(EALC 41000)

The literary Chinese readings for CHIN 410 this quarter focus on the type of medieval Daoist religious verse called youxian shi 遊仙詩 “poems on journeying in transcendence.” Particular attention is given to the religious characteristics of the verse type, including metaphorical language, technical terms, and religious ideas. Medieval Chinese poets wrote youxian shi in cycles of multiple verses. This course features two poets and their complete youxian shi cycles: Guo Pu 郭璞 (276–324) and Wu Yun 吳筠 (d. 778). Time permitting, additional readings from Wu Yun’s Daoist verse illustrate both the characteristics of Daoist religious experience in the Tang Dynasty and the importance of Daoist verse for the appreciation of Tang poetry.  As part of developing advanced skill in reading literary Chinese, instruction in the use of encyclopedic Chinese dictionaries for premodern Chinese literature is provided as well as the use of searchable Chinese text databases. The art of translation is emphasized. Students are expected to prepare readings in advance of each class meeting. In class, students take turns translating and explaining the readings.

Prerequisites

Usually preceded by Chinese 408 and/or 409. Requirements: Midterm and final examinations. Translation project.

2023-2024 Spring

EALC 21000 Elementary Literary Chinese III

(CHIN 21000)

Introduction to the Chinese literary language from the first millennium B.C.E. to the end of the imperial period. While surveying a variety of literary genres (such as, philosophical and historical texts, poetry, and essays), focus is on grammatical structures and translation methods.

Prerequisites

CHIN 20900, or placement, or consent of instructor. Auditing is not permitted. Must be taken for a quality grade.

2022-2023 Spring

CHIN 21000 Elementary Literary Chinese III

(EALC 21000)

Introduction to the Chinese literary language from the first millennium B.C.E. to the end of the imperial period. While surveying a variety of literary genres (such as, philosophical and historical texts, poetry, and essays), focus is on grammatical structures and translation methods.

Prerequisites

CHIN 20900, or placement, or consent of instructor. Auditing is not permitted. Must be taken for a quality grade.

2024-2025 Spring
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