Modern Languages and Literatures

AS 214 Chinese Language and Culture IV

MWF   10:00~10:50 AM

Meet at Roosevelt Hall 203A

Huizong Calligraphy

Instructor

Course Description

Course Objectives

Required Texts

Requirements

Grading Policy

Academic Honesty

Disability Statement

Schedule

 

 

Links

 

Instructor

Yuhua Tsui

 

Roosevelt Hall, Room 218

620-341-5400
TF 12:00~2:00, or by appointment
ytsui@emporia.edu

http://www.emporia.edu/~yuhuatsu

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 Course Description

 

This course is the second of the two-semester sequence of the Intermediate Mandarin Chinese, designed for students who have studied Chinese for three semesters and have learned 400 to 450 Chinese characters. It has a two-fold purpose: to enhance students’ aural-oral fluency and comprehension, and to develop students’ reading and writing skills.  It is intended that by the end of the second semester students will be able to read and write 300-350 characters.

The focus of this course is to prepare students for real-world language experiences. Knowledge and skills will be assessed cumulatively.  Cumulative implies that knowledge and abilities acquired in one phase of the learning process will continue to actively be used in later phases, infused with new material. Success in this course requires learner’s persistent efforts, including daily review and constant practice.

 

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 Course Objectives

 

It is expected that at the end of this course, students will acquire the ability to
       1.  to pronounce the Chinese words and sentence with at least 90% accuracy;
       2.  to recognize and write 650 to 750 Characters;

       3.  to obtain information and present ideas in basic sentences with at 90% accuracy;

       4.  to react appropriately to others’ oral behavior;

       5.  to understand and interpret written information with 90% accuracy;

       6.  to know what to do, when and where in the Chinese cultural context.

 

 Required Texts


A trip to China: Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese, (two volumn set: Text and Vocaburlary). Chih-p’ing Chou & Der-lin Chao.  New Jersey, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (ISBN: 0-691-02883-4)

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 Course Requirements

Attendance and class performance: 

Class attendance is a required component of your grade.  You should understand that frequent and extended absences will not allow you to develop your aural/oral skills and will therefore influence the instructor’s evaluation of your in-class performance. 

Generally speaking, excused absences will only be granted to documented illness and documented family emergency.  After 4 unexcused absences, your final grade will be automatically dropped by one level for every 2 absences.  Entering the classroom 5 minutes after the class starts is considered tardiness and three tardiness will be considered as one absence. Tardiness of more than 20 minutes also counts as one unexcused absence.  

If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to find out the material covered during your absence and changes made on the schedule.  

 

Tutorial:

Tutorial sessions are mandatory. Individual hour will be assigned for each student once or twice a week. This will enable you to get individual attention from your teacher.  Absence without documented excuses will count as one absence.

 

Homework: 

Homework is assigned on the daily basis.  All assignments must be submitted at the beginning of the class on the day it is due.  Late work will receive penalty unless you have documented excuses. Homework overdue for two days will be corrected but not graded. Sloppy homework or homework with too many errors should be returned to the student for resubmission.

Homework is graded in 5 levels:

a.    4 (90%): good work submitted on time.

b.    3 (80%): average work submitted on time.

c.    2 (70%): re-submitted work of good quality.

d.    1 (60%) re-submitted work of average quality or returned work without 

            re-submission.

e.   0 (0%) unacceptable work, missing homework, or homework submitted late.

 

** a portfolio consisting of all your assignments should be handed in at the end of the semester.

 

Quizzes and Tests: 

Daily quizzes consist of vocabulary and character quizzes.  No make-up quiz is allowed. In case of an excused absence, that quiz will be dropped when calculating the final grades.

Weekly quizzes and tests can be made up with 20 % penalty unless you have documented excuses. The lowest 2 scores on the weekly quizzes (including zero for a missed quiz) will be dropped when calculating the final grade.

 

Lab work:

You should plan to attend lab regularly to listen to the tape of the target lesson and answer the questions for lab work.

 

Presentation:

Twice during the semester, each student is required to give two 5 to 10-minute presentation in front of the class.  Students can choose his/her own topic but the topic must be closely relating to the topics we studied during the semester. Students should be encouraged to incorporate as much of the studied material/ grammar/ vocabulary as possible, but they can be creative in devising form and content of the presentation. For example, the presentation can be a role play, the telling of a story/ experience, the description of a picture or scene, or a re-enactment of the dialogs in our textbook. Students are required to submit a draft of the proposed presentation to the instructor one week in advance. More details will be given in class.

 

 Grading Policy

One hundred points is assigned weekly to (A) Attendance (20 points), (B) Homework (30 points), (C) Daily Quizzes (10 points), and (D) Weekly Quizzes (40 points).

 

Weekly points                                                                                  1200 points

100 points per week

 

Midterm and Final Exams                                                                  400 points

200 points each

 

Presentations                                                                                    200 points

100 points each

 

Weekly Journal or Essays                                                                 200 points

 One per week

 

Total possible points                                                                       2000 points

 

 

Grading Scale

A

>93

 

 

A-

90~92%

B+

87%~89%

B

86%~83%

B-

82%~80%

C+

76%~79%

C

70%~75%

 

 

 

 

D

60%~69%

 

 

 

 

F

<60%

 

 

 

 

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Academic Honesty 

 

At  Emporia State University , academic dishonesty is a basis for disciplinary action. Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to activities such as cheating and Plagiarism (presenting as one's own the intellectual or creative accomplishments of another without giving credit to the source or sources). The faculty member in whose course or under whose tutelage an act of academic dishonesty occurs has the option of failing the student for the academic hours in question and may refer the case to other academic personnel for further action. Emporia State University may impose penalties for academic dishonesty up to and including expulsion from the university

 

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Disability Statement

 

Emporia State University will make reasonable accommodations for persons with documented disabilities. Students need to contact the Director of Disability Services and the professor as early in the semester as possible to ensure that classroom and academic accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion. All communication between students, the Office of Disability Services, and the professor will be strictly confidential.

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Course Outline and Schedule

 

A detailed schedule will be provided on a weekly or biweekly basis

 

See Schedule

 

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