Intensive Chinese Language

Fall and Spring Courses

TRACK 2 - Intensive Chinese Language

This track offers an intensive language program for students who wish to focus on learning Chinese. In addition to 20 class hours per week of Chinese language, students may opt to take one course in English on Contemporary Society and Culture.

Prerequisite: Students in the Intensive Language Track must have completed two semesters of prior Chinese Language study.

Courses:

Chinese Language (required, 20 class hours/week, 15 credits)
Upon taking a placement exam after arrival, students will be placed into the appropriate language level. All courses teach listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and include opportunities for practical language application outside the classroom.

• FUDL CHIN101 Intensive Beginning Chinese II
• FUDL CHIN200 Intensive Intermediate Chinese I
• FUDL CHIN201 Intensive Intermediate Chinese II
• FUDL CHIN300 Intensive Advanced Chinese I
• FUDL CHIN301 Intensive Advanced Chinese II
• FUDL CHIN400 Intensive Advanced Chinese III
• FUDL CHIN401 Intensive Advanced Chinese IV

Students take one course in English:

FUDL SOCS260 Issues in Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture (required, 3 class hours per week, 3 credits) [pdf]

Professor Yu Hai's CV [pdf]

This course examines the transformation in Chinese society since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, with emphasis on the changes brought about in the wake of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Topics will include the developments in urban and rural social transformation introduced by the reforms, the changing relationship between individual and society, the urban/rural divide, population control and the one child policy. Students will explore the social consequences of China's rapid integration into the global economy. All students will complete a Capstone Project as part of this course.

Please click here to complete the course selection form [pdf]