Peking University, Beijing

Target Student: Intermediate level learners 
Objective: to improve students’ listening and speaking skills; to expose students to Chinese culture and society; to acquaint students with phonetic system and grammar for oral expression.
Content: Vocabulary Building; Themes-related speech; Chinese Vocabulary (around 1200 words)
 

The primary objective of this course is to enable each student to improve in their demonstration of effective public speaking skills in English.

To study the normal activity process of various systems, organs and cells of the human body, especially the internal mechanism of the functional performance of each organ and cell, and to clarify how the functional activities of the human body as a whole are coordinated and mutually restricted, and the influence of changes in the internal and external environment of the body of these activities.

The course will introduce Olympic movement and the related controversies and views from the perspective of culture In broad sense, analyze the relationship between Olympic culture and human and social development, politics, economy and world peace as well as the environmental protection. 

Course objectives It is intended that through the course students can learn and acquire the values and the positive character traits that are assumed to be developed in sport and Olympic Movement; to examine closely all aspects of the modern Olympic Games and Olympism in order to offer a comprehensive understanding of two key aspects of the Modern Olympic Culture: its historical developments and its present fundamental characteristics; the nature of the tensions created in the process of its evolution which have led to recent reforms.

This course teaches students the basic knowledge and methods of simultaneous interpreting through lectures, exercises and guidance, enables them to acquire basic skills, and equips them with necessary training methods.

This course will approach the interactive relationship between electronic games and society from multi-dimensional perspectives, including cultural history, technological history, art history, and intellectual history. Unlike conventional game-related or design courses that primarily focus on gameplay and mechanics, this course will not assume “game enthusiasts” as the students’ prior identity.

This course belongs to the small class which is required for the Corporate Finance. The orientation of small-class teaching is: deepen understanding, locate interest, improve ability.

This course is designed for the beginning learners who intend to acquire basic survival Chinese, especially in listening, speaking and reading. The primary emphasis is placed on listening comprehension and speaking fluency as well as reading comprehension. The goal is to improve students’ listening, speaking and reading skills, and to increase their knowledge of Chinese culture and customs.

Through the reading of a selection of classical Greek and Roman literature in translation, the course aims to introduce the students to some major authors and works of the classical period, and prepare them for the study of English literature.