4 courses in the 1994–95 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,1L 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.
Available to students with no prior background in writing, speaking or understanding any dialect of the Chinese language. Ballot must be completed prior to enrolment.
With the completion of the study of the rudiments of phonetics (as provided in CHINA 101A), the emphasis in this course wilt 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. Prereq: CHINA 101R Ballot must be completed prior to enrolment.
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.
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.