CRN	14371	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	CHI 106
Title	Intensive Beginning Chinese
Professor	Li-Hua Ying / Bruce Knickerbocker
Schedule	Mon 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm LC 120 Tu Th 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm LC 206 Wed 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 301

This course is intended for students who have completed Beginning Chinese 101, and for those who have had the equivalent of one semester’s Beginning Chinese at another institution. We will continue to focus on both the oral and written aspects of the language. Regular work in the language lab and private drill sessions with the tutor are required. A 5-week summer immersion program in Qingdao, China will follow this course. Upon successful completion of the summer program, the students will receive five credits. (Financial aid is available for qualified students to cover part of the cost of the summer program. See Prof. Ying for details.)

CRN	14372	Distribution	D
Course No.	CHI 202
Title	Intermediate Chinese II
Professor	Li-Hua Ying
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm LC 208

This course continues Intermediate Chinese I, and is for students who have taken one and a half years of basic Chinese, and who want to expand reading and speaking capacity and to enrich cultural experiences. We will use audio and video materials, emphasize communicative activities and language games, and stress the learning of both receptive and productive skills. In addition to the central language textbook, other texts will be selected from newspapers, journals, and fictional works. Conducted in Chinese.

CRN	14373	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	CHI 204
Title	Classical Chinese Fiction
Professor	Bruce Knickerbocker
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm LC 118

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

As an introduction to the outlines of Chinese literature from the beginnings to the nineteenth century, this course aims to provide insights into the humanistic Chinese tradition. We will work through masterpieces of prose and poetry in a roughly chronological manner. These include lyrical masterworks in the various poetic forms, fiction from the early strange and supernatural Daoist-inspired tales to the adventurous and sensual Ming and Qing novels, as well as exemplary essays, vivid historical writings, and profound philosophical pieces. Impossible though it may be to cover all traditional Chinese literature in one semester, you will leave the course with a sense of the richness and the wonder of the literature, a basic blueprint of China’s literary development, and hopefully an interest in roaming through it further. Conducted in English.