Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

School

Languages & Cultures School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Attendance mode

In Person

Class hours

Tutorial 3 Hours/ Week

Prerequisite

CHIN2211 or CHIN3020

Assessment methods

In-semester exam and final exam

Course enquiries

Doctor Sheng-hsun Lee (Semester 1, St Lucia, In person)

Current course offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) St Lucia In Person Course Profile

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Course description

This course aims to develop students' skills in reading and writing Chinese in representative styles of Modern Chinese. Texts used include short stories, fiction, essays and newspaper articles.

This is an advanced level course in written Chinese that carries on from CHIN3020 and aims to further develop students' literacy skills in Modern Chinese. The instruction covers three aspects of language use. First, we will focus on reading and writing two genres: argumentation and narration. Argumentation is about truth, logics, and evidence. Narration is about structuring lived experience in time and space. Both genres are fundamental to the development of literacy skills. Secondly, we will explore different registers such that writing to a customer at a workplace setting is different from messaging close friends. Finally, new words and grammatical structures are introduced based on various advanced topics, such as Confucianism and migrant workers in contemporary China.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) External External Course Profile
Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) External External Course Profile
Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) St Lucia Flexible Delivery Course Profile
Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) External External Course Profile
Semester 1, 2020 (24/02/2020 - 11/07/2020) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2019 (25/02/2019 - 22/06/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2018 (19/02/2018 - 23/06/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2017 (27/02/2017 - 24/06/2017) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2016 (29/02/2016 - 25/06/2016) St Lucia Internal Course Profile