Peking University, Beijing

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This course is for international students with intermediate Chinese skills who would like to further their understanding of Chinese society. The course covers scenarios that reflect Chinese daily life and native oral language. Classes involve lectures and discussion of texts with vocabulary, sentence structure, textual material of gradually increasing complexity. In addition to the textbook, the course covers idioms, proverbs, and slang. Text: ADVANCED SPOKEN CHINESE (GAOJI HANYUKOUYU) series, by Zi Renzhi & Ren Xuemei, Peking University Press, 2005 (Second Edition). Assessment: homework, participation, midterm exam, final exam.

This course teaches Chinese language relevant to business and communication; to enable students to engage in simple business and trade activities such as visiting a company, inquiring and bargaining on prices, ordering goods, and processing insurance claims. The texts are about common business activities connected with international trade. Each course comprises two dialogs and one short text. The course uses a combination of the teacher's lectures and student's practice with a focus on oral expression capabilities. Text: Intermediate Business Chinese Language by Huashan CUI. Assessment: Midterm test, final, class participation.

This language course improves communication ability in spoken Chinese. There are about 15 students for each class. After this level of courses, the students have good paragraph expression ability, are able to communicate with local people in Chinese fluently about general topics on social life, and express their thoughts and feelings in Chinese systematically and completely. It requires students to speak Chinese in standard pronunciation and tones and to use words correctly. The students learn how to use complicated vocabulary and sentences patterns. The main goal of the course is strengthen students' ability in using Chinese language and appropriate expressions. 7000 words are learned by students. Text: Gaoji hanyu kouyu, 3 (Advanced Spoken Chinese Part 3) Peking University Press Assessment: class performance, two midterm exams, final exam.

The course is focused on the Greek cinema of the last 50 years and its connection with Modern Greek history. The tragic events of the Greek disaster in Asia Minor (1922), the interwar period, the Civil War (1946-1949) and the military junta (1967-1974) are the main points of reference of most of the Greek film directors examined. Other themes of their films are the depopulation of rural villages during the mid-20th century, the urbanization and emigration, the relations between men and women, the isolation and the condition of women especially in small towns, the struggle for identity and the connection of modern Greece and the ancient Greek civilization. The Greek film directors are distinguished by an increasing awareness of the social problems and the human condition in an unfriendly world because of the wars, struggle for power and serious threats to a decent and harmonious life. Sometimes there is a fusion of reality, nostalgia and dreams given in a poetic and moving way. The connection of cinema and history with literature and art is going also to be pointed out. In this context, several films by Theo Angelopoulos, Michael Cacoyannis, Pantelis Voulgaris, Tassos Boulmetis and Yannis Smaragdis are screened and discussed.

This course begins by discussing the these of knowing yourself and improving yourself. It then covers the topics of adaptation, learning, interpersonal, communication, self-confidence, love, crisis response, career planning, sex and homosexuality, suicide and meaning of life.

This language course teaches pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of modern Chinese systematically. It focuses on the cultivation of students' reading and writing skills in Chinese and consequently improves students' communication ability. There are three levels according to the textbooks and teaching pace. In level 3 the students learn about 10000 new words and over 500 grammar items; after this course, the students' language level should be equivalent to the HSK level 11. Text: BOYA CHINESE ADVANCED level III (Boya hanyu Feixiang 3). Assessment: tests, homework, participation and class performance.

This course begins with a systematic introduction to the basic theories in folk literature study, thus conducts a detailed analysis of the characteristics of folk literature, its functions and genres, and its relationship with written literature. In addition, various genres of folk literature are introduced with examples chosen from the most representative literary works in China. In this sense, this course is a basic introductory course as well as a selected reading course. Considering the performability and variety of Chinese story-telling and folk opera which may bring difficulty to class lectures, they are not introduced in detail, but instead are presented in the form of video. This course particularly focuses on folksongs and folktales, multimedia presentation are applied. Assessments: Midterm analysis paper 30%, final exam 50%, attendance and class performance 20%.