CHIN 3620 - Advanced Intermediate Chinese II

Goals: To continue building advanced-level skills of self expression, including summarizing ideas and arguments, offering detailed description, making comparisons, and giving a speech to inform. Learning more about Chinese history, social etiquette, and contemporary issues, such as environmental protection, are additional goals.

Content: Emphasis on reading comprehension and speaking; acquisition of new characters and grammatical structures; review of characters and grammar already studied. Students will research a Chinese non-profit organization and write a professional letter of self-introduction.

Taught: Periodically

Recommended prerequisite: The department recommends that students complete CHIN 3600 or CHIN 3610 before taking this course.

Credits: 4