110-143 Introductory Chinese 1A

Note

Formerly available as 110-023. Students who have completed 110-023 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

1st and 2nd year

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Ms D Manwaring

Prerequisites

New students may not enrol unless they have attended an interview and/or taken a placement test in the week preceding the first week of semester, or equivalent as determined by the coordinator.

Corequisites

110-144 Spoken Introductory Chinese 1A

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and three hours of language classes per week

Subject Description

This is an introductory course in Chinese for students with no previous knowledge of the language. By the end of this subject students should be familiar with the Pinyin system of romanisation and be able to read and write approximately 300 Chinese characters.

Assessment

Class participation, a 2-hour examination and assignments and/or tests totalling 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • Huang Zhengcheng et al, Chinese for Today Textbook. 2nd edn, The Commercial Press, 1996.
  • Huang Zhengcheng et al, Chinese for Today Exercises in Reading and Writing. 2nd edn, The Commercial Press, 1996.


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