Subject Area: Chinese Studies

This course is for background speakers at the Intermediate Level. It is open to students who are from an environment where Chinese, whether Mandarin, Cantonese or any other dialect, is or has been used, and who have completed Intermediate Chinese A, or acquired a reasonable level of spoken Chinese and a working knowledge of no less than 1000 characters. In this course, you will improve your Chinese skills in the areas of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and will make significant gains in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. You will also be introduced to cultural issues related to topics in the textbook, as well as topics in Chinese cultural history. In this course work on the internet is coordinated with class work in lectures and tutorials.