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Overview

This advanced subject is the continuation of CHI4007 and the highest level subject for Chinese learners. Students will be introduced to more Chinese texts from Taiwan Today. Topics cover education, the status of women, the environment, cross-strait relations and ethnic communities and languages. Students continue to learn Chinese writing in … For more content click the Read more button below.

Portfolio

Office of the Provost

School

Humanities and Social Sciences

Subject coordinator

Yangbin Chen

Subject type

Undergraduate

Year level

Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

AQF level

Level 8 – Bachelor Degree Honours

Available as elective

No

Available to study abroad / exchange students

Yes

Capstone subject

Yes

Academic progress review - Schedule A subject

No

Subject instances

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Learning resources

Prescribed - Book - Taiwan Today

Career ready

Work based learning (placement):No

Graduate capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

Subject intended learning outcomes

On successful completion you will be able to:
1.
Demonstrate understanding of the social and economic life in Chinese society in Taiwan.
2.
Demonstrate knowledge of and write traditional and simplified characters and appreciate the varieties of Chinese culture, tradition and civilisation.
3.
Communicate competently in topics of everyday interest in Chinese and Australian society, and demonstrate consolidated skills in simple correspondence and expository writing.
4.
Perform basic analysis and synthesis, and to develop and evaluate simple arguments, as well as use a bilingual paper based and online based dictionaries correctly.
5.
Work as part of a team in class role play activities and presentation.
6.
Write functional sentences using appropriate structure with correct grammar in Chinese

Learning activities

Listening, reading new textbook materials, cultural creation and oral activities including conversations with given topics, role play, discussion and debates. More, comparison in Chinese-English translation, sentence making with new vocabulary and sentence patterns, writing practice in different forms including dialogue, comment, letters and essay.

Requisite rules

Requisites

Prerequisite