Hawaii Pacific University
CHIN 1200 Beginning Mandarin II Section ____
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Instructor: Name, contact information and other relevant information about the instructor.
Course description: This is a continuation of the two-semester introductory course on standard
Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua in China, or Guoyu in Taiwan). The goal remains to be to provide the
student with basic speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to handle some of the most common
daily tasks. In the second semester, although familiar format of curricular activities involving all four
aspects of language acquisition is generally assumed, emphasis will be placed on training the student’s
ability to write in Chinese characters and use tools (e.g. dictionary) to further advance their knowledge
and use of the language.
Course prerequisites: CHIN 1100 Beginning Mandarin I
General Education Requirement: This course is classified under the Communication Skills Theme and
meets the requirement for a course in Communication Skills B: Communication Contexts.
General Education Student Learning Outcomes and the Five Themes: HPU’s general education
curriculum is focused around five themes. This course emphasizes the Communication Skills Theme and
provides students with opportunities to achieve the following related general education student
learning outcomes:
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Students will demonstrate critical reasoning in organizing their thoughts, feelings, concepts and
information in Chinese for effective, clear, and accurate oral and written communication. [CS
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Students will compare, contrast, and interact with various communications contexts in Chinese,
such as intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group, public, and mass communication. (Students
will learn to use Chinese to reflect on their own thoughts and experiences, to communicate in
one-to-one conversations, small group discussions, and class presentations. Students will also
read authentic materials in print and on the world wide web, and listen to a variety of accents
in conversations, group discussions, and formal presentations using both audio and video
media). [CS 3]
Students will analyze the way people communicate within and across cultures, genders,
generations, and organizations and develop skills in communicating in Chinese across these
domains. (Students will develop skills in communicating in Chinese with people from a variety
of cultures, with men and women, with older and younger interlocutors, using both formal and
informal registers). [CS 1]
The course also addresses the World Cultures theme and provides students with opportunities to
achieve the following related general education student learning outcome:
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Students will engage with and develop skills to interpret various manifestations of cultures
of the Chinese-speaking world including verbal and visual texts, institutions, behavior, and
performance. [WC 5]
Course-Specific Student Learning Outcomes for CHIN 1200 Beginning Mandarin II
In this semester the student will continue to gain basic communication skills in standard Mandarin
Chinese by expanding their ability to handle more of the most frequently encountered contexts, such as
studying Chinese, school life, shopping, talking about the weather and transportation. Students are
expected to achieve the following areas of fluency at the completion of this course:
Speaking: be able to carry on conversations and narratives in familiar contexts by effectively
utilizing the vocabulary and grammar learned.
Listening: be able to understand common expressions and clear speech in familiar contexts.
Reading: be able to read texts that are similar to the textbook topics written in either
Traditional or Simplified Chinese characters, and to utilize learning tools such as a Chinese-English
dictionary to further enhance understanding.
Writing: be able to write in either Traditional or Simplified Chinese characters and know how to
use tools such as a word processor and dictionary for composition.
At the completion of this course, students will achieve the following:
1) Speaking/listening: be able to utilize approximately 500 vocabulary words and a substantial
number of grammatical structures learned to carry out simple conversations and narratives in specific
topics with native speakers.
2) Reading/Writing: be able to read and write Chinese characters learned in class, and to
efficiently utilize a bilingual dictionary for self-study and supplementary vocabulary.
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explanatory notes to the instructor which should be deleted before using the syllabus. Parenthetical
explanations of how the course addressed the second and third gen ed outcomes may be modified to fit
the content of your specific course. Course-specific outcomes above are an example and may be
rephrased or modified by the instructor.
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once the syllabus is complete. For online courses there are some additional requirements given at this
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Texts List textbooks with ISBN’s and include this language as well
All textbook information (pricing, ISBN #, and e-books) for this course can be found on the HPU
Bookstore website: hpu.edu/bookstore.
If you have any questions regarding textbooks, please contact the HPU Bookstore at:
Phone:
808-544-9347
Or e-mail:
jyokota@hpu.edu
mmiyahira@hpu.edu
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not given with the description of the assignments).
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