ASTC 3060 Advanced Chinese Language II

ASTC 3060 Advanced Chinese Language II
Advanced Chinese Language II
This course is designed for students who have prior knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, preferably with the equivalent of two and a half years’ Chinese learning experience. The course is to advance students’ Chinese social-cultural awareness and their oral proficiency while developing reading and writing skills. Students will read a variety of viewpoints on current issues of population, education, family, gender, environment, business and technology in the rapidly changing China. By the end of the semester, students are expected to be able to read Chinese with fluency and accuracy; students are expected to be able to skim for the main idea of texts; students are expected to be able to look for specific information in each text; students are expected to analyze and express themselves, and give opinions in oral presentations and writing tasks on covered topics. Only those students who have taken ASTC 3050, ASTC1030, or ASTC 1040 at Tulane or those who are placed in ASTC 3060 by language learning center can take ASTC 3060.
Pre-requistites: See course Description
credit hours: 4