Chinese: Concentration in Chinese Literature & Linguistics

The Concentration in Chinese Literature and Linguistics is aimed at native and near-native speakers of a Chinese language and consists of 18 units of required coursework in advanced language, linguistics, oratory, literature, and culture, plus an additional 12 units of lower and upper-division electives in Chinese or a related subject. GWAR is built into the course design.

Students will satisfy the University Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) by taking one GWAR offering from the Chinese Program or Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Current GWAR offerings include CHIN 601GW, CHIN 611GW, CHIN 612GW, and MLL 400GW.

Upon completion of the Bachelor of Arts in Chinese: Concentration in Chinese Literature & Linguistics:

1. Language Skills
   1. Listening Comprehension: Student can understand the utterances of native speakers and extract main ideas from recordings of authentic speech, including excerpts from lectures, films, radio, and television broadcasts.
   2. Reading Comprehension: Student can understand and summarize main ideas in target language texts intended for general readers, including social correspondences, general purpose essays, short stories, and news writing.
   3. Speaking: Student can sustain a conversation on a general topic with a fluent speaker of the target language, narrate and describe on a variety of topics at paragraph length, and respond to spontaneous developments in an exchange.
   4. Writing: Student can produce narratives and descriptions, cohesive summaries and routine social correspondences (e.g. business letters, resumes), demonstrating awareness of diction, syntax, and stylistics in the writing process.
2. Cultural Knowledge
   1. Student has an understanding of cultural values, folk beliefs, social conventions and festive celebrations unique to target culture.
   2. Student can identify and characterize exemplars of painting, architecture, music, film, and other fine arts in the target culture.
   3. Student can identify major historical events and order them chronologically.
3. Knowledge of Literature
   1. Student can identify major literary genres.
   2. Student can characterize major literary movements or periods and order them chronologically.
   3. Student can identify major historical events and order them chronologically.
4. Language Structure
   1. Student has understanding of sound system (phonetics/phonology) of the target language.
   2. Student has understanding of word-formation processes (morphology) in the target language.
   3. Student is familiar with syntax of the target language.
   4. Student has understanding of the historical development of the target language.
   5. Student has understanding of sociolinguistic variation in the target language.

Shehaadat al-thaanawiya al-'aama | General Certificate of Secondary Education