Courses

This course will introduce the historical and cultural context of modern Chinese writing as well as various critical approaches to its study. About two novels and two plays should be studied to help the students acquire the basic knowledge about Modern...

This course introduces students to the English translations of ancient Chinese literature. It involves ancient poems, prose and fiction from the 11th century BC to the beginning of the 20th century. Students will learn the basic knowledge about the history of...

This is a 3 credit long vacation specially packaged intensive study in a university in any Chinese speaking country. In lieu of that, students may undertake a language immersion course at the University of Ghana during the long vacation between levels 200 and...

This course is intended to broaden the scope of CHIN 307 without necessarily making the latter a pre-requisite. New areas not previously treated will be considered. With the help of this course the students will study more social phenomena of Chinese culture...

This course is designed to cover broad areas of Chinese culture and civilisation such as the Chinese educational system, its philosophy and practice. The course instructor is at liberty to choose from a wide range of topics relevant to his/ her area of...

This course will focus on the translation of business documents mostly related to China. Passages will be chosen from sources such as newspapers, brochures and books. The vocabulary of the texts to be translated in relation to this course should be around...

This course will involve the translation of more complex passages taken from varied sources. Students will be introduced to translation techniques, and encouraged to identify translation problems and apply such techniques to the translation of texts...

This course involves intermediate listening comprehension and oral practice. Students will be engaged in more materials of listening comprehension to ensure that they can understand more complicated sentences. Through conversation and discussion based on...

This course will build on CHIN 301. Students will be made to listen to appropriate audio tapes and CDs or to watch films of above average difficulty. They will also be required to carry out simple face-to-face conversations with ease as well as narrate simple...

This course is designed to improve upon students’ command of active vocabulary, expression and grammatical structures and their ability to use them appropriately for communication. Students will also be introduced to media Chinese (television, radio,...