4 courses in the 1991–92 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
CHINA 101RFirst Year Chinese 1F,W 3C 0.5
An introductory course for students who have no knowledge of Chinese to develop basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Practical oral and written exercises are used to provide a firm grammatical foundation for further study. The pronunciation used is the Mandarin (Pu-tung-hua) dialect.
With the completion of the study of the rudiments of phonetics (as provided in CHINA 101R). the emphasis in this course will shift to Mandarin Chinese tonality. Six types of questions and four kinds of simple sentences will be introduced. Vocabulary will be expanded to 500 to 700 words.
The study of Chinese characters will receive more emphasis. Grammar instruction will include four types of comparison, different kinds of complements and complex sentences - pauses, logical stress, etc. Some study of Chinese Cuiture is included.
Upon completion of CHINA 201R and 202R, the student should have a reading vocabulary of 1,000 to 1,500 Chinese characters and a writing vocabulary of 700 to 1,000 characters.