Courses

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Study Areas

 

Mandarin

  • MDN 100 Mandarin Chinese I

    This course introduces students to Mandarin Chinese, the language with the largest number of speakers in the world. This course will employ a comprehension-led approach to language learning in which students will first learn to understand concrete "here and now" language and then learn how to draw upon the language they can understand to express their own ideas using their own words. Students will learn the phonetic writing system for Mandarin called Pinyin. Students' growing familiarity with Mandarin Chinese will be complemented by learning about Chinese culture.

  • MDN 101 Mandarin Chinese II

    This course is designed to enable beginning-level Chinese students to increase their ability to comprehend and produce spoken Mandarin. This course will employ a comprehension-led approach to language learning in which students will first learn to understand concrete “here and now” language and then learn how to draw upon the language they can understand to express their own ideas using their own words. In addition to using Pinyin to read and write Chinese, students will also learn to recognize about 150-175 simplified Chinese characters. Students’ growing familiarity with Mandarin Chinese will be complemented by learning about Chinese culture.

    Prerequisite: MDN 100 Mandarin Chinese I