University Bulletin
Undergraduate Degree Programs
CHNS 053
Intermediate Intensive Chinese for Graduate Students (3) Continued intensive study of Mandarin Chinese at the intermediate level: reading, writing, speaking, listening, cultural contexts.
CHNS 053 Intermediate Intensive Chinese for Graduate Students (3)
This is the third in a series of three courses designed to give students an intermediate intensive knowledge of Chinese. Continued intensive study of Chinese at the intermediate level: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and cultural contexts. Lessons are taught in an authentic cultural context.
On the model of the curriculum in English as a Second Language (ESL), which provides English-language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing as needed for international graduate students to meet the requirements of their graduate programs and/or to prepare for their teaching or other professional expectations, this new series of foreign language courses is designed for English-speaking graduate students to obtain foreign-language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing as needed for them to meet the foreign language requirements of their graduate programs and/or prepare for their professional expectations.
Providing additional opportunities for graduate students to meet language requirements and to expand the range of foreign languages they can use is important and timely, as the University continues to implement its commitment to furthering internationalism, including at the graduate level. A new Graduate School Task Force, appointed by Dean Eva Pell, is addressing ways to more completely internationalize graduate education. Intercultural preparedness, including abilities to use languages other than English, is a crucial part of the preparation of a globally enabled workforce.
These intensive courses are planned as part of the offerings of the Summer Intensive Language Institute, an outreach program of the College of the Liberal Arts. They are designed specifically to allow graduate students an optimal opportunity to acquire elementary and/or intermediate language skills efficiently in an intensive pedagogical environment. Like the ESL series for English-language skills, where the curriculum for graduate students uses course numbers such as ESL 114G, 115G, 116G, 117G, etc., these foreign-language skills courses must carry lower-level numbers because their content is not at a level where upper level numbers or graduate numbers would be appropriate (the Graduate School's definition of 500-level courses requires advanced-level subject-matter).
Note : Class size, frequency of offering, and evaluation methods will vary by location and instructor. For these details check the specific course syllabus.