Chinese

Students learn pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar of modern Chinese systematically. It focuses on the training of students’ reading and writing skills in Chinese and consequently improves students’ communication ability. There are three levels for according to the textbooks and teaching pace. In level one, 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. 

The aim of Spoken Chinese is to enhance the proficiency of oral communication by learning common vocabularies and sentences.

Intermediate Class: For those who have vocabulary skill of more than 1200 Chinese words. The course aims to allow students to use Chinese in daily lives, studies and work.
 

This course covers Chinese pronunciation, greetings, and simple daily conversation through blended learning, which combines on-demand and face-to-face classes.

By the end of this course, students are expected to: 

• Acquire Chinese pronunciation, introductory-level vocabulary and grammar.
• Participate in simple daily conversations such as greetings and self-introduction.
• Foster interest in Chinese society and culture.

This beginners Chinese course aims to develop the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It instructs on the basics of the language as well as cultural knowledge to begin communicating in Chinese. Students with some knowledge of the language are welcome. 

The course aims to provide students with:

• Familiarity with the sounds and pronunciation of Chinese; 
• Simple conversation skills about everyday topics, including self-introduction;
• Acquisition of basic Chinese vocabulary, sentence structure, basic grammar, etc.; and,
• Ability to read short sentences

This advanced Chinese language course is for students who have taken Intermediate Chinese II 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 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 in discussions leading to a greater understanding of Taiwanese culture and language. The course utilizes the textbook, Far East Daily Chinese III. 

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.