Five hundred of the most commonly used Chinese characters. Emphasis is on the phonetic and significant elements common to large groups of ideograms.

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Admission only by successful completion of Chinese 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Continued practice of basic sentence patterns used in modern speech with increased emphasis on reading and acquisition of additional characters.

Continued practice of basic sentence patterns used in modern speech with increased emphasis on reading and acquisition of additional characters.

Introduction to Chinese culture, heritage, and modern societies. Readings selected from printed and online sources. Taught in English.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Provides advanced intermediate training in spoken and written Chinese. By increasing students’ vocabulary and knowledge of sentence patterns, the course focuses on speaking and writing in coherent, well-formed paragraphs.

Continues advanced intermediate training in spoken and written Chinese. Attention is given to complex grammatical patterns, discourse characteristics, and discussions of cultural topics.

Introduces the connection between gender and the Chinese national imagination. Readings include cultural and historical documents that purport to explain the experience of women in China. Readings in English. Taught in English.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

An introduction to the most important works, authors, genres, and themes of Chinese literature from the first millennium B.C.E. to 1911.

Readings of canonical texts from modern Chinese literature. A focus is on the role of literature and other cultural documents in the imagination of China as a modern nation. Readings and discussion in English.

Survey of Chinese language cinema. Chinese film history and vocabulary with which to discuss film texts. Covers classic leftwing cinema, Hong Kong martial arts films, as well as the Hong Kong, Taiwan, and PRC New Waves. Taught in English. Films subtitled.

Cross-listed course: FAMS 365

Intensive study in selected authors or literary movements of China, including cultural aspects. May be repeated for credit under different titles. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Acquisition of advanced grammar and vocabulary. Emphasis on building oral proficiency in professional settings.

Continued acquisition of advanced grammar and vocabulary. Emphasis on expanding communicative abilities in a wider variety of interpersonal situations.

Advanced special topics in Chinese studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.