First-Year Courses in Chinese (Division 339)

Fall Term, 1999 (September 8 - December 22, 1999)

Note: The Department Waitlist policy for all courses is 2 – Go to the department office to get on a waitlist, and then attend the first class meeting. Policies and procedures for handling the waitlist will be explained there.

Students wanting to begin language study, at a level other than first year, must take a placement exam to be held on Tuesday, September 7, 1-3 p.m.

Language Courses

Instructor(s): Hilda Tao (htao@umich.edu)

Credits: (5).

Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($10) required.

Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~htao/

Chinese 101 is an introductory course for students who do not understand or speak any Chinese. (If you speak Chinese at home, this is not the right course for you. Take the placement exam in the fall for Chinese 301/302.) In this course, students are expected to achieve control of the sound system (especially the four tones), basic sentence patterns, aural comprehension, and daily conversations. Starting with the fourth week, students will learn to read and write the “traditional” Chinese characters (Fan-ti zi). Students will learn 100 characters in Chinese 101. Almost every week, students will be required to do their homework at the computer sites and will be required to perform skits in front of the class. A written quiz or test will be given every Thursday. Class is held one hour per day: Tuesdays and Thursdays are lectures; Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are recitations. Students are required to register for both a lecture section and a recitation section. Attendance will be taken everyday. Textbooks: (a) John DeFrancis, Beginning Chinese (Yale Univ. Press); (b) John DeFrancis, Beginning Chinese Reader, Part I and II (Yale Univ. Press). Materials covered: Beginning Chinese, Lessons 1-13. Beginning Chinese Reader, Lessons 1-12. No visitors are allowed.

Culture Courses/Literature Courses

Section 001 – Looking at Traditional China Through its Most Famous Novel: The Story of the Stone.

Instructor(s): David Rolston (drolston@umich.edu)

First-Year Seminar,

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

See Asian Studies 251.001.

Culture Courses/Literature Courses

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Philip Ivanhoe (ivanhoe@umich.edu)

Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ivanhoe/phil263.htm

See Philosophy 263.001.

Language Courses

Section – Permission of instructor required.

Credits: (4).

Course Homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/chinese/program.html

This course is designed for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Chinese, but little or no reading and writing ability. Chinese 301 focuses on reading and writing Chinese and will cover the regular 101-102 reading materials. Students will be graded on the basis of daily classroom performance, daily quizzes, periodic tests, and homework assignments. Students must have the permission of the instructor in order to register for this course. Most students will receive this permission via the placement exam to be held on Tuesday, September 7 at 1pm.