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CHIN 405 Advanced Translation Skills I

This will involve the translation of scholarly articles and selections in the humanities and social sciences, mostly related to China. Emphasis will shift from general translation-translation as another means of language acquisition-to introducing students to...

CHIN 404 Oral for Academic and Professional Purposes II

In this course students will build on the skills acquired in CHIN 403 and will practice spoken Chinese in complex and sophisticated communication situations. Their vocabulary will be stronger to help them understand more Academic conversations. The listening...

CHIN 403 Oral for Academic and Professional Purposes I

This course involves the reading and discussion of texts from varied sources including newspaper articles, literary selections and academic essays as well as materials on business and commercial communication. The students’ vocabulary in the academic...

CHIN 402 Advanced Chinese Language Proficiency II

By the end of this course, students will be able to write coherent and cohesive prose. Their knowledge in grammar and their skills in reading and in writing will all be able. They should have mastered the use of further idiomatic expressions as well as...

CHIN 401 Advanced Chinese Language Proficiency I

This course is intended to increase to the highest level students’ knowledge of the Chinese characters, idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms as well as expand the range of their active vocabulary and more especially deepen their mastery of more...

CHIN 400 Long Essay

This is a research paper or a creative work on a topic of a student’s choice undertaken under a lecturer’s supervision in partial fulfillment of an undergraduate programme. The long essay should not be less than 5000 Chinese characters in fluent...

CHIN 316 Business Chinese II

This is an intermediate course covering the areas of Chinese financial business, correspondent skills and Chinese business practices. Certain business negotiation skills will also be added in this course to help the students know how to learn operate a...

CHIN 315 Business Chinese I

This course concentrates on the training of students in their acquisition of the basic specialised vocabulary required in oral and written communicative skills in the conduct of business in Chinese. It also deals with conventions in modern business. Most of...

CHIN 314 Newspaper Chinese II

This course proceeds from CHIN 313 and involves the reading, analysis and discussion of the different linguistic aspects of Chinese newspaper styles at a deeper level. This course aims at adding another 500 Chinese words to learner’s vocabulary. One...

CHIN 313 Newspaper Chinese I

Newspaper Chinese presents certain characteristic linguistic features that students at this level should be conversant with. This course is intended to develop students’ skills in reading Chinese newspapers by focusing on these distinctive features of...

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