SYLLABUS (Fall 2017)
Chinese 132: Elementary Chinese for Advanced Learners
Instructor: Fan Liu Office: Room 302, 250 Church St., Tel: 436-8124
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Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:00pm or by appointment
Hsiu-hsien Chan Office: Room 301B, 250 Church St., Tel: 436-8126
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Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-3:30pm or by appointment
General Information
Chinese 132 is a course for advanced beginners at the elementary level. Students taking this course are assumed to have relatively fluency in listening and speaking Chinese. The course aims for development of language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Chinese 132 meets for 5 days a week, 50 minutes per session. Students are expected to spend 1-1.5 hours every day, besides the class time, preparing for class, reviewing for tests, and doing homework. Instructional language is exclusively Chinese, except those situations where students are doing bilingual translation or where a grammatical point needs to be explained in English. Students are expected to speak in Chinese during class time. Classroom activities include drills on vocabulary and grammar, oral presentation, discussion and skits.
Objectives
Chinese 132 helps students straighten out their accent in conformity with Mandarin and expand their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, by studying a variety of texts covering different aspects of daily life, cultural settings, and some written expressions. Finishing the course, students are to be able to communicate more comfortably in Chinese and to have acquired a solid reading and writing knowledge to get ready for Chinese 142.
I. Required textbook:
1. A New China: An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese (Revised Edition)
Available at Yale Bookstore (ISBN 978-0691148366, Price: $55.00) or Amazon.com
2. Selected Listening/ Reading Materials
II. Class Hours & Rooms:
Section 1: 9:25am-10:15am (Classroom:WLH014)
Section 2: 10:30am-11:20am (Classroom:WLH014)
Section 3: 10:30am-11:20am (Classroom:WLH012)
Section 4: 11:35am-12:25pm (Classroom:WLH014)
III. Class Schedules: To be announced in class and on classesv2: CHNS132 00 (F16)
IV. Activities:
Daily quizzes
Lectures and Drills
Oral exercises
Homework every lesson
Listening /reading /written assignments
Unit exams
Oral exams
Final exam
V. Course Requirements:
1. Attendance:
Chinese 132 is an intensive course. Good attendance is expected from all students. However, a student is allowed to use up to 3 times of un-excused absence in the semester (but you still need to find a way to hand in all the assigned work when due). Excessive absence (7 accumulated hours, including the allowed 3) will lead to an automatic drop from the course, by Yale College and the Department policy. (This will be strictly enforced). We do allow additional absence without penalty for special situations (such as being seriously ill). You should email your instructor BEFORE an excused absence.
2. Weekly Individual Tutorial Sessions with a TA:
Required weekly meeting with TAs, 25-30 minutes to practice pronunciation, practice reading-aloud, answer questions related to a theme or topic, and free conversation, all based on assignments.
3. Homework, Daily quizzes, Oral exams, Written tests and Final exam:
Students are required to hand in homework and take all daily quizzes, oral exams, written tests, and final exam as scheduled. For major exams only, unless having a dean's excuse, all make-ups will be lowed 3 points if taken within two days or lowed10 points within a week. A make-up should be done as soon as the student is available for class. Assignment and exercises required due before class will not be accepted after class.
VI. Grading system:
Attendance& Class participation10%
Daily quizzes10%
Homework20%
Oral exams 15%
Written tests20%
Final exam20%
Tutorials5%