This is a third-year Modern Chinese language course, designed for students of Chinese as a foreign language at an intermediate or beginning advance level. This course is a continuation of CHIN3022: Modern Chinese 5 in Semester One. Taking an integrated approach that utilises cultural context to facilitate teaching Chinese, this course aims at developing students’ fluency and accuracy through reading and discussion on topics concerning Chinese society and culture. The course will place a special focus on building reading skills. The course will be taught mainly in Chinese.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Use an active vocabulary of about 1,000 new items.
- Identify more advanced grammatical rules and more complicated sentence structures relevant to a range of conversational situations and texts; develop an acute awareness of the differences between spoken and written styles in Chinese language.
- Communicate spontaneously and with confidence in writing and speaking on a range of intellectually and linguistically challenging topics.
- Analyse aspects of contemporary Chinese culture and society, including customs, festivals, and beliefs.
- Integrate their language proficiency to intercultural situations.
Other Information
Proficiency level: completion of this course is roughly equivalent to HSK 6.
On successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to engage at a high intermediate or beginning advanced
level of Standard Modern Chinese.
Students with native speaker proficiency (may include cognate languages and dialects) must review the language proficiency assessment site and contact the CAP Student Centre for appropriate enrolment advice. Students with previous “language experience or exposure” are required to undertake a language proficiency assessment to ensure enrolment at the most appropriate level.
Relevant past experience includes:
Previous study of the language (both formal and informal, for example but not limited to, at school, or, home, or through online activities, etc.)
Being exposed to the language in childhood via a family member or friend
Travel or living in a country where the language is spoken
The language being spoken in your home (even if you do not speak it yourself)
Students who are not sure if they need to undertake a language proficiency assessment should seek advice from the course or language convenor. Students who intentionally misrepresent their language proficiency level may be investigated under the Academic Integrity Rule 2021 as having failed to comply with assessment directions and having sought unfair advantage. This may result in a penalty such as reduced grades or failure of the course.
Students are not permitted to enrol in a language course below one that they have already successfully completed, except with permission of the language and/or course convenor.
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As language courses are sequential, this may mean that students can only commence their language course in the following semester.
Indicative Assessment
- In class participation (10) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
- Online preview quizzes and online homework (10) [LO 1,2,3]
- Listening and speaking tests (20) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
- Two written tests (20) [LO 1,2,4]
- Two short essays (15) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
- Final written exam (25) [LO 1,2,3,4]
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Workload
Four contact hours per week, consisting of two-hour lecture and two tutorials. The total workload for the course is 130 hours including independent study.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
Weijia, Huang & Qun, Ao: Learning Chinese Language and Culture Intermediate Chinese Textbook«??????? ??», Vol. 2, 2nd Edition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $4080 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $5280 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.
Second Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8696 | 22 Jul 2024 | 29 Jul 2024 | 31 Aug 2024 | 25 Oct 2024 | In Person | N/A |
