Subject Code: 1CIS1 Length of course: Full year Credit points: 20 points
Recommended Background:
Other Advice:
This subject further develops competence in the use of Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) for a range of purposes, and extends understanding of Chinese life and culture. To achieve these purposes students integrate the study of the function and structure of the Chinese language with the exploration of social and cultural topics
Course Description: The background speakers level languages are designed for students who have a background in the language and who have had more than 1 year's education in a country where the language is spoken.
Students develop intercultural communication skills through examining relationships between language, culture, and identity and reflecting on the ways in which culture is created, expressed, and communicated through language.
Students clarify, extend, and develop their ideas and opinions on the prescribed themes and contemporary issues, and develop their capability to communicate, interact, and negotiate meanings within and across languages and cultures.
Topics Covered:
There are four prescribed themes: China and the World, Modernisation and Social Change, The Overseas Chinese
Speaking Communities; Language in Use in Contemporary China. The study of themes, presented through a range of texts, will enable students to reflect on, and respond to, aspects of the Language and Culture of Chinese-speaking communities.
Students will develop skills in exchanging, analysing and evaluating information, opinions, and ideas.
Assessment: There are ten summative assessment tasks which demonstrate skills in Oral Interaction, Text Analysis, Writing in Chinese and Research.
Length of course: Full year
Credit points: 20 points
Recommended Background:
Other Advice:
This subject further develops competence in the use of Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) for a range of purposes, and extends understanding of Chinese life and culture. To achieve these purposes students integrate the study of the function and structure of the Chinese language with the exploration of social and cultural topics
Course Description:
The background speakers level languages are designed for students who have a background in the language and who have had more than 1 year's education in a country where the language is spoken.
Students develop intercultural communication skills through examining relationships between language, culture, and identity and reflecting on the ways in which culture is created, expressed, and communicated through language.
Students clarify, extend, and develop their ideas and opinions on the prescribed themes and contemporary issues, and develop their capability to communicate, interact, and negotiate meanings within and across languages and cultures.
Topics Covered:
There are four prescribed themes: China and the World, Modernisation and Social Change, The Overseas Chinese
Speaking Communities; Language in Use in Contemporary China. The study of themes, presented through a range of texts, will enable students to reflect on, and respond to, aspects of the Language and Culture of Chinese-speaking communities.
Students will develop skills in exchanging, analysing and evaluating information, opinions, and ideas.
Assessment:
There are ten summative assessment tasks which demonstrate skills in Oral Interaction, Text Analysis, Writing in Chinese and Research.
Additional Costs:
Nil