CHN - Chinese

This is the first of a three-semester sequence for students who have little or no background in Chinese. The course builds basic language skills in Mandarin, although oral proficiency and character recognition are emphasized. The course prepares students to participate in the (optional) fourth-semester (spring) study abroad program in Beijing, China, where Chinese language study continues at the intermediate level.

This is the second of a three-semester sequence for students who have little or no background in Chinese. The course builds basic language skills in Mandarin, although oral proficiency and character recognition are emphasized. The course prepares students to participate in the (optional) fourth-semester (spring) study abroad program in Beijing, China, where Chinese language study continues at the intermediate level.

This is the third of a three-semester sequence for students who have little or no background in Chinese. The course builds basic language skills in Mandarin, although oral proficiency and character recognition are emphasized. The course prepares student to participate in the (optional) fourth-semester (spring) study abroad program in Beijing, China, where Chinese language study continues at the intermediate level.

This lab is required concurrently with CHN 101 and emphasizes oral proficiency in authentic cultural contexts.

This lab is required concurrently with CHN 102 and emphasizes oral proficiency in authentic cultural contexts.

This lab is required concurrently with CHN 103 and emphasizes oral proficiency in authentic cultural contexts.

Maximizing Study Abroad helps students approach and enrich the study and/or sojourning abroad experience from the perspectives of intercultural communication, cultural adjustment, and practical language learning strategies prior to departing for their target cultures. Participants are applicants to UP Study Abroad programs and UP students sojourning abroad. This course counts toward meeting requirements of the Sojourner Scholars Program.

Chinese 203 reviews fundamental skills developed in CHN 101-103 and develops further competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Mandarin. Through communicative and multimedia activities, students will also learn more advanced grammatical structures and Chinese characters. The course presents elements of Chinese culture and history and further prepares students to study in China.

Participants will become familiar with how experts in the field consider the language learning process and how theories of second language acquisition connect to their own efforts to learn a foreign language. More importantly, participants will reframe how they go about learning a foreign language, try new strategies, and document what they have done through a diary research project.