Fayetteville State University
Department: Department of English and Foreign Languages
Program: Minor in Chinese Language and Culture
Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions
CHIN 110 (3-3-0) Elementary Chinese I:
This course introduces the basics of Chinese
language - the pinyin, characters and
grammar. Students are expected to learn about
150 single characters and 200 compound
words of modern standard Chinese. The
course emphasizes speaking and reading as
well as writing.
CHIN 120 (3-3-0) Elementary Chinese II:
The course is designed to build up basic
vocabulary for conversation, reading and
writing, and improve students' comprehension
in speaking, listening, reading and writing
Chinese.
Prerequisite: CHIN 110
CHIN 210 (3-3-0) Intermediate Chinese I:
The course is designed to enhance students'
abilities in speaking, reading, and writing
Chinese. Students will not only learn
complicated conversations but also use
vocabularies and sentence structures to
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discuss social and political issues. They will
also learn to write narratives and short essays.
Prerequisite: CHIN 120
CHIN 220 (3-3-0) Intermediate Chinese II:
This course is designed to continue to enhance
students' abilities in speaking, reading, and
writing Chinese. Students will not only learn
complicated conversations but also use
vocabularies and sentence structures to
discuss social and political issues. They will
also learn to write narratives and short essays.
Prerequisite: CHIN 210
CHIN 310 (3-3-0) Advanced Chinese I: This
course is designed to further improve the
students' reading and writing abilities as well
as spoken ability in Chinese. Students taking
the course will be exposed to essays, prose,
movies, short novels, and poems in their
original forms either in classical Chinese or
modern Chinese. They will discuss these
readings in class and then write their
argumentation papers in Chinese.
Prerequisite: CHIN 220
CHIN 330 (3-3-0) Classical Chinese
Literature: This survey course is examines
the long tradition of Chinese literature, from
its genesis to the mid-19th century before it
was transformed under the influence from the
West. We will look into the diversity and
richness of this tradition while tracing its
dramatic historical changes in a time period of
nearly three thousand years. In addition to
studying prose and poetry, we will also
consider historical content as well as social
and philosophical writings. Students are
expected not just to learn the long and rich
tradition but, more importantly, to reconstruct
it through the texts they are to read and papers
they are to write. All course materials are in
English.
CHIN 331 (3-3-0) Modern Chinese
Language: In this survey course, students
will read key literary texts by important
writers in modern Chinese writers, including
Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ding Ling (Ting Ling),
Shen Congwen (Shen Tsung-wen), Zhang,
Ailing (Eilen Chang), and Wang Anyi. The
course explores issues of nationalism,
modernity and globalization as represented in
Chinese Literature. By discussing these issues
in literary contexts, students will gain a better
understanding of cultural production and
social change in modern Chinese history. All
the texts are in English.
CHIN 332 (3-3-0) Cinema and
Contemporary China: This course examines
the technical, aesthetic, economical and
historical interactions between contemporary
Chinese cinema and contemporary Chinese
society. Students will see the representative
film works by contemporary Chinese directors
from mainland China, Hong Kong, and
Taiwain, and analyze the various cinematic
styles in relation to the social and historical
changes in which the films were made. They
will also discuss such issues as modernity,
nationalism, and globalization that the
Chinese people have dealt with in
contemporary China. For students learning the
Chinese language, this course will also offer
many authentic linguistic materials. All texts
are in English and/or with English