China

This course will invite famous novelists and new writers at home and abroad to give lectures or a series of lectures, which will be open to all students in the form of elective courses. Three to seven writers will be invited for the course. The invited writers are expected not only to be highly established, original and representative, but also to have deep theoretical thinking in fiction. Through this course, novelists share their creative experience with students, introduce their creative theories and experiences, stimulate their creative enthusiasm, and encourage and guide their writing and communication. At the same time, it can also cultivate students' sentiment and achieve the good purpose of aesthetic education.

The "Selected Readings of Ancient Chinese" course is a preliminary course for international undergraduate students studying ancient Chinese in the Chinese Department. Its purpose is to allow international students to develop a certain ability to read ancient books by studying a certain number of ancient classic works, and lay a solid foundation for the study of ancient Chinese courses in the future. 

This course is intended to give a panoramic view of contemporary China. The topics are restricted to different aspects of the status-quo of China, including people and nationalities, food and cuisines, languages and dialects, festivals and traditions, marriage and family, leisure and entertainment, arts and sports, traffic and transport, travel and world heritage, natural resources and environment protection, mass media and publication, education and research, politics and government, religions and beliefs, information technology and internet, cities and countryside. Each topic is framed into 10 to 15 questions and presented in an easily accessible way with statistic figures, stories, pictures and video clips from different sources in order to ensure objectivity. The aim of the course is to offer a panoramic view of contemporary China in the selected aspects and help understand the variety and diversity of contemporary Chinese society.

ADVANCED INTENSIVE CHINESE I

INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE CHINESE I

In our daily life, people often tell friends, peers, family of their distress before they tell professional counselors. Peer counseling is such a special kind of psychological counseling, conducted by trained or supervised unprofessional people, providing helps having some counseling effects. In this process, through the use of active listening and problem solving skills combining knowledge about human development and mental health, peer counselors instruct their companions and provide them with psychological and emotional support In this course, the basic concept, skills and ethic of peer counseling will be introduced, as well as some practical problems such as culture, race, sexual orientation and romantic relationship. As a general course, these goals are to reach: Students can have basic knowledge of peer counseling; Some basic peer counseling skills can be mastered and used in practical situations; This course also helps student in viewing their own mental health and improving it with related knowledge.

Course content: words, article and grammer