Chinese Classes

Fall 2018 Spring 2019

Fall 2018

Number / Section	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
CHIN 101-01	First Year Chinese I	Days: MWF	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: NEILL 112	Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz	Avail./Max.: 12 / 20
Details This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 101-02	First Year Chinese I	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room: NEILL 304	Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz	Avail./Max.: 11 / 20
Details This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 101-L1	First Year Chinese I Lab	Days: T	Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm	Room: NEILL 113	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 8 / 13
Details This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 101-L2	First Year Chinese I Lab	Days: T	Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am	Room: NEILL 111	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 6 / 13
Details This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 101-L3	First Year Chinese I Lab	Days: T	Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 214	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 8 / 13
Details This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 194-01	From "Yellow Peril to "Yellow Fever": Understanding Chinese American Experience through Art/Culture	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 226	Instructor: Yuan Ding	Avail./Max.: 16 / 20
Cross-listed with ASIA 194-01 Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 203-01	Second Year Chinese I	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room: NEILL 112	Instructor: Patricia Anderson	Avail./Max.: 5 / 20
Details While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 102 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 203-02	Second Year Chinese I	Days: MWF	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: NEILL 112	Instructor: Patricia Anderson	Avail./Max.: 4 / 20
Details While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 102 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 203-L1	Second Year Chinese I Lab	Days: R	Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 214	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 1 / 13
Details While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 102 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 203-L2	Second Year Chinese I Lab	Days: R	Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm	Room: NEILL 113	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 0 / 13
Details While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 102 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 203-L3	Second Year Chinese I Lab	Days: R	Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm	Room: NEILL 112	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 7 / 13
Details While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 102 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 294-01	Literature and Social Change in Modern China	Days: M	Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm	Room: NEILL 214	Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz	Avail./Max.: 12 / 20
Cross-listed with ASIA 294-01 Details After more than a millennium of dynastic rule, China’s last dynasty fell in 1911. In this period, Chinese intellectuals struggled to modernize their nation: proposed reforms included introduction of Western science, technology, and hygiene, promotion of public education, liberation of women, abolition of the rigid civil service examination, and abandonment of Chinese characters in favor of Western alphabetic script. This course examines Chinese intellectuals' ambivalent attitudes toward the West and toward its own imperial history at this critical juncture in Chinese history. Taught in English. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 305-01	Third Year Chinese I	Days: MWF	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room: NEILL 111	Instructor: Xin Yang	Avail./Max.: 4 / 20
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese II. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and expand work with texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 204 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 305-L1	Third Year Chinese I Lab	Days: W	Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm	Room: NEILL 404	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 0 / 10
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese II. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and expand work with texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 204 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 305-L2	Third Year Chinese I Lab	Days: W	Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm	Room: NEILL 227	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 4 / 10
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese II. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and expand work with texts. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 204 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 353-01	Cyber China: Internet and Contemporary Culture	Days: TR	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am	Room: NEILL 102	Instructor: Xin Yang	Avail./Max.: 9 / 15
Cross-listed with ASIA 353-01 Details What is the "Great Firewall of China?" What does it say on the symbolic power of the state, the civilians, as well as censorship and resistance politics? The Internet has played an increasingly important role in shaping contemporary Chinese life in many ways. The technology-enabled spaces have expanded to encompass a vast array of cultural forms. They have become an arena of intense contention and contestation among multiple political forces. This senior capstone course explores various aspects of the Internet culture in mainland China, combining close examination of up-to-date online content in original Chinese language with evaluation of scholarly discourse on the Chinese internet. The goal of the seminar is to look at different ways of conceptualizing Chinese internet culture. It will also consider the implications of online communication and cultural production both for contemporary Chinese culture in general, and students' own research in particular. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 204, the equivalent language proficiencty, or permission of instructor General Education Requirements: Internationalism Writing WA Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 407-01	Fourth Year Chinese I	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room: NEILL 111	Instructor: Jin Stone	Avail./Max.: 17 / 20
Details This course is designed for students who have achieved general proficiency in all aspects of Chinese language learning, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening. They are considered beyond the levels of proficiency of their 3rd year counterparts and are ready to delve deeper into more sophisticated textual readings, including short works of fiction, periodical readings and more frequent use of primary reference materials. Students will work to improve their listening skills while working with TV, movie, and news scripts and give greater attention to developing a more sophisticated writing style in Chinese. This course is conducted completely in Chinese. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 306 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials

Spring 2019

Number / Section	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
CHIN 102-01	First Year Chinese II	Days: MWF	Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am	Room:	Instructor: Jin Stone	Avail./Max.: 25 / 25
Details A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 102-02	First Year Chinese II	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room:	Instructor: Jin Stone	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
Details A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 102-L1	First Year Chinese II Lab	Days: T	Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 14 / 14
Details A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 102-L2	First Year Chinese II Lab	Days: T	Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 14 / 14
Details A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 102-L3	First Year Chinese II Lab	Days: T	Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 14 / 14
Details A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 194-01	Masterpieces of Chinese Literature	Days: TR	Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm	Room:	Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Details Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 204-01	Second Year Chinese II	Days: MWF	Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am	Room:	Instructor: Patricia Anderson	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 204-02	Second Year Chinese II	Days: MWF	Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am	Room:	Instructor: Patricia Anderson	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 204-L1	Second Year Chinese II Lab	Days: R	Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 14 / 14
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 204-L2	Second Year Chinese II Lab	Days: R	Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 14 / 14
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 204-L3	Second Year Chinese II Lab	Days: R	Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 14 / 14
Details A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
CHIN 255-01	China on Screen	Days: MWF	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room:	Instructor: Xin Yang	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Cross-listed with ASIA 255-01 Details This course is an overview of China on the silver screen. Adopting the "nation" as its primary structuring device, the course examines how Chinese films represented the national identity, national issues, and the national past. The topics under discussion include how women's virtues became the emblems of a nation that strived for modernity in the early 20th century; how films were politically appropriated for the socialist construction; how the revolutionary past had been cinematically constructed, remembered and critiqued in the post-Mao era; how the national legacy and tradition were consciously or unconsciously re-created and revised as a spectacle to meet the curious gaze from the global market; and how Taiwan and Hong Kong cinema constantly reflected the issue of cultural and national identities. The course starts from the silent film period and extends to the fifth generation directors, underground filmmaking, and the revival of martial arts genre in the greater China area. Feature films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong will be screened and discussed. Secondary articles and books are also assigned in conjunction with the films. The course is organized thematically and moves chronologically. No prior knowledge of China or Chinese is required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 306-01	Third Year Chinese II	Days: MWF	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room:	Instructor: Patricia Anderson	Avail./Max.: 20 / 20
Details A continuation of Third Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 306-L1	Third Year Chinese II Lab	Days: W	Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 8 / 8
Details A continuation of Third Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 306-L2	Third Year Chinese II Lab	Days: W	Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm	Room:	Instructor: Mengjie Lei	Avail./Max.: 8 / 8
Details A continuation of Third Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
CHIN 408-01	Fourth Year Chinese II	Days: MWF	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room:	Instructor: Xin Yang	Avail./Max.: 15 / 15
Details This course is designed for students who have achieved general proficiency in all aspects of Chinese language learning, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening. They are considered beyond the levels of proficiency of their 3rd year counterparts and are ready to delve deeper into more sophisticated textual readings, including short works of fiction, periodical readings and more frequent use of primary reference materials. Students will work to improve their listening skills while working with TV, movie, and news scripts and give greater attention to developing a more sophisticated writing style in Chinese. This course is conducted completely in Chinese. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 407 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials

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