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CLDC0002 Cantonese for Foreign Learners II (3 credits)

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CLDP0011 Introduction to Chinese Characters (3 credits)

The course is intended for international students whose mother tongue is not Chinese. It is designed to familiarize students with the distinctive features of the Chinese characters as a means to introduce them to the unique characteristics of the Chinese language and culture. Students are taught how to use Chinese dictionaries.

Assessment:         100% coursework

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CLDP0012 Highlights of Chinese Dynasties (3 credits)

CLDP0012 Course Outline    

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CHIN1501 Chinese as a foreign language I (Part I) (6 credits)

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have no prior knowledge of the Chinese language. It aims to build a solid foundation for students wishing to go on to more advanced levels of language study and in-depth study of Chinese culture and society. It familiarizes students with the phonetic structures of Putonghua, the Hanyu Pinyin system, pronunciation, tones, intonation, sentence patterns and the characteristics of situational conversations. 400 most frequently used Chinese characters will be introduced and students will be taught how to make use of Chinese dictionaries.

Assessment:  100% coursework

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CHIN1502 Chinese as a foreign language I (Part II) (6 credits)

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CHIN2501 Chinese as a foreign language II (Part I) (6 credits)

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed or have an equivalent competency to CHIN1502. It aims to further develop students' audio-lingual proficiency as well as raise their reading and writing ability. Students can use information obtained from their course to converse in daily life topics with Chinese people, and present speeches based on the assigned topics. Emphasis will be placed on everyday topics and common patterns so that students can experience communication in Chinese. Students will learn how to write 250 new characters on top of approximately 500 characters acquired in previous level. Students should be able to recognize about 1,100 Chinese characters accumulated through previous learning. The length of the guided composition will be about 200 to 250 characters.

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CHIN2502 Chinese as a foreign language II (Part II) (6 credits)

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed or have an equivalent competency to CHIN2501. It aims to develop students' overall language skills through reading and discussion of contemporary affairs. Students will not only learn about differences between written language and spoken language, but will also gain the ability to understand and speak Chinese in a variety of situations. At the end of semester students should be able to write 150 new characters on top of those taught in CHIN2501. Students should be able to recognize up to 1,400 characters and write more than 900 of these characters accumulated through previous learning. The length of the guided composition will be about 350 characters.

Assessment:    100% coursework. 

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CHIN3501 Chinese as a foreign language III (Part I) (6 credits)

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed or have an equivalent competency to CHIN2502. It aims to increase students' communicative and linguistic competence in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating. It also exposes students to some in-depth study of various aspects of Chinese culture and society. It familiarizes students with up to 200 Chinese characters in addition to 900 Chinese characters learnt. Attention will be paid to the increase of students' vocabulary. Students should recognize up to 1,600 Chinese characters. The length of the guided composition will be 400-500 characters.

Prerequisite: CHIN2502 or equivalent

Assessment:   100% coursework.

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CHIN3502 Chinese as a foreign language III (Part II) (6 credits)

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have completed or have an equivalent competency to CHIN3501. It aims to increase students' communicative and linguistic competence in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating. It will also raise students' reading comprehension ability through more in-depth reading on Chinese culture and society. Students should be able to recognize up to 1,800 characters. Students will learn how to write up to 150 more Chinese characters, in addition to 1,100 Chinese characters learnt. The length of the guided composition will be 500 or more characters.

Prerequisite: CHIN3501 or equivalent
Assessment:   100% coursework.

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CHIN3503 Chinese as a foreign language IV (Part I) (6 credits)

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for international undergraduate students, exchange and visiting students who have attained equivalent competence to HSK level 5 –6 or New HSK level 4. It aims at enhance students' communicative competence, specifically targeting at speaking, reading and writing. Students will be exposed to Chinese society and culture through a greater variety of topical discussions and field trip/workshop/guest lectures. The course will teach up to 400 new characters on top of about 1,800 characters accumulated in previous levels. Students are required to write 300 of these 400 new characters on top of 1,250 acquired previously. An additional 800 frequently used short phrases/words to enlarge students' vocabulary to approximately 3000 words. Students are required to write compositions of about 800 characters. They are encouraged to use short phrases/words/sentence structures learnt in class to further strengthen their knowledge of the Chinese language and culture. This course will lay the foundation for higher-level courses in extensive reading in Chinese and newspaper reading.

(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.) This intensive course is intended for international undergraduate students, exchange and visiting students who have attained equivalent competence to HSK level 7/8 or New HSK level 5. It is an extensive reading course, which aims at enhancing students' competence in communication, specifically targeting accurately and fluently expressing ideas and accelerating reading speed. Students will be exposed to Chinese society and culture through a greater variety of selected reading materials from textbooks, selected writings of famous Chinese modern writers, magazines, short stories and novels. The course will expose students to more complex sentence structures in formal and literary writing on top of CHIN3503, and will guide them to distinguish colloquial and formal Chinese. Students will recognize 500 more characters on top of 2,200 characters and write 450 of these 500 new characters on top of 1,550 acquired previously. The course aims at boosting students' vocabulary to 4000 frequently used Chinese short phrases/words (1000 on top of previous acquired 3000). The focal point will be gradually switched to short phrases, idioms and images. In addition, students will write summaries of each of their readings, to enhance their reading comprehension and strengthen their writing ability. This course will lay the foundation for higher-level courses in newspaper reading and fundamentals of classical Chinese.

CHIN3504 Course Outline