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This advanced Chinese language course is for students who have taken Intermediate Chinese I of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken at least 450 hours (6 hours per week) of Chinese language instruction. The course develops proficient language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, for students to communicate effectively in their daily lives. The course instructs on vocabulary and grammar that are not often used in daily conversations. Students learn to use appropriate Chinese language leading in discussions leading to a greater understanding of Taiwanese culture and language. The course utilizes the textbook, A Course in Contemporary Chinese IV.  

This advanced Chinese language course is for students who have taken Advanced I of the Chinese Language Course for International Students or those who have taken at least 600 hours (6 hours per week) of Chinese language instruction. The course does not utilize a specific textbook but discusses topics that aid proficiency in listening, speaking and writing. Students learn to use appropriate Chinese language in discussions and practice reading newspapers and magazines, leading to a greater understanding of Taiwanese culture and language. 

This course is the first part of “History of Classical Chinese Literature”, one of the basic courses in Chinese Department. The course introduces the core themes, the basic characteristics and the learning goals of the Chinese literary history, as well as main literature progressing in Pre-Qin and Han dynasty. Topics to be discussed: Myths and Ancient Folk Songs, The Book of Songs”, essays in Chunqiu and Zhanguo, historical essays, Chu Ci, rhymes and essays in Han Dynasty, Han Yuefu, the scholars’ poems in the late Han dynasty. The course introduces core themes in Pre-Qin and Han dynasty, with historical and anthropological focus.

Calligraphy is the representative of Chinese art. To understand Chinese art, calligraphy is a convenient way to enter. The purpose of offering calligraphy aesthetics and practice, a general elective course across colleges and departments, is to enable students who are not majoring in calligraphy to have a preliminary perception of the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, a general cognition of the history of Chinese calligraphy, and a basic experience of the basic techniques of Chinese calligraphy. Therefore, this course is integrated with aesthetics, history and practice. In this course, students not only listen to the history and theory of calligraphy taught by teachers and famous teachers, but also practice calligraphy in person under the inspiration of the teachers' unique teaching methods: seal script, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script, meaning and ancient meeting, elegant in hand. Students will be improved aesthetically, cultivated in their humanistic and artistic temperament, improved in the practice of writing, and finally have a new understanding of Chinese calligraphy and Chinese artistic spirit.

This course is for international undergraduate students with intermediate Chinese proficiency. The selected textbooks cover a wide range of subjects, including literature, history, philosophy and natural sciences, etc., and the contents are highly discussable, helping to train students' critical thinking abilities. At the same time, the written vocabulary is expanded in a targeted manner, the reading speed and comprehension level are improved, and students are trained to master the basic writing skills of Chinese articles during reading. The writing training combines the text content, style and the actual needs of the students, focusing on the analysis of grammatical errors, the analysis and application of written vocabulary, and the writing training that is biased towards academic argumentative styles, striving to enable students to write in order and meet the course requirements. Chinese article.

This course aims at improving the ability of academic writing in Chinese for international students. This course consists of three parts: 1. Learning the features, format, writing style of Chinese academic papers, as well as the features of related language expressions, including vocabulary, sentence structure, paragraphs etc. 2. From the aspect of language expression, you will be provided with the writing methods which are frequently used in academic writings, including explanations, descriptions, making statements and examples, comparisons and arguments. 3. You will be provided with exercises related to academic writing, including the topics and subtitles, abstract and key words, introduction, literature review, arguments (eg. quotes), conclusion, reference, appendix as well as concluding remarks. This course will connect writing techniques with your language ability training. By reading examples and making analysis of common mistakes, students will get some ideas about the features of Chinese academic papers, will understand the differences of academic and non-academic Chinese, and will study the general guideline for writing Chinese academic papers. As students understand certain necessary procedures and skills of academic writing, they will be capable of writing academic papers independently.

This course is a Chinese course specially offered for international postgraduate students in the school. The difficulty of the course is intermediate. In this class, students will focus on learning various language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In particular, they can learn some key function words and complex sentence patterns, understand written words in Chinese, and learn about written words in Chinese. There are writing exercises, and the teacher will mark them carefully. After taking this Chinese course, you can discuss some non-professional social topics with your classmates, read general Chinese articles, and write your thoughts into short articles in Chinese.

This course has a total of 32 class hours and is a beginner Chinese language course for international graduate students throughout the school. This course divided into two categories: (1) One is related to the content of the beginner Chinese (A) course, which requires students to have studied Chinese for at least 48 hours and master 200 Chinese vocabulary. Through the course, students will further expand their vocabulary, master more complex grammar, and fluently communicate with others on topics such as weather, gift giving, and being guests. (2) The other type is a single course for majors such as EMBA and GMBA. The course content is aimed at students with zero foundation in Chinese through course learning, students can master the basic knowledge of Pinyin, understand the basic structure of Chinese characters, master basic vocabulary and grammar structure, and be able to use the learned vocabulary to communicate on topics such as self introduction, time, and schedule.

This course studies frequent vocabulary, grammar and general cultural knowledge of classical Chinese; basic competency in reading classical Chinese literatures; and to further improve their ability in the application of written modern Chinese. Teaching content includes mainly classical Chinese analects with the special learning of frequent vocabulary, sentence patterns, and general cultural knowledge on classical Chinese as supplements.