4 courses in the 1993–94 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.
Not available to students who have experience in other Chinese dialects. Students with experience in the Cantonese dialect should enrol in CHINA 102R or consult the Renison College Registrar for appropriate placement.
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 culture is included.