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Course Description for Department of Chinese Language and Literature


First: Chinese Courses:

  • Intensive Chinese 1/ 0121121/ 3 credit hours

This is the most fundamental and therefore most important course in this BA Program, helping students acquire from the most basic know-how of Chinese language from pinyin to a very basic sentence structure of greeting, introduction, expression of ideas in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students who attend and fulfill this class will be qualified to communicate with Chinese people in the most common situations in both oral and written forms.

Textbook Recommendation:

A New Practical Chinese Reader (Arabic Edition), BLCUP, 2009 Edition.

A New Chinese Course, Huang Zhengcheng, BLCUP, 2007 Edition.

New Concept Chinese, Cui Yonghua, BLCUP, 2013 Edition.

Great Wall Chinese, Ma Jianfei, BLCUP, 2005 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Listening and Conversation 1/ 0121110 /3 credit hours

This course mainly begins to enhance oral skills with the aim to practice communication strategies. General themes will be discussed after presentation through situational diagrams or other modern aids available. Students will be given ample time to listen and speak on the basis of texts of varying lengths and topics.

This course is given in Language Lab or with modern equipment.

Textbook Recommendation:

Short-Term Spoken Chinese (Beginners, Elementary, and Intermediate), Ma Jianfei, BLCUP, 2nd Edition.

Practical Chinese: Speaking, BLCUP, 2003 Edition.

Practical Chinese: Listening Comprehension, BLCUP, 2003 Edition. 

  1. Intensive Chinese 2/ 0121122 /3 credit hours

This course helps students acquire further basic know-how of Chinese language and on the academic basics they already acquire form CHN 101, they are hoped to listen, speak, read and write the language more freely in some of the common-purpose language circumstances. Students who attend and fulfill this course will be academically qualified to reach such a level as HSK 3 (passing grade) on Chinese Proficiency Test, and by the end of this semester students will be encouraged to take this proficiency test.

HSK 3 (180 points being passing grade) is the minimum qualification to apply for CI Scholarship to further students’ BA studies (and hopefully their MA or PhD programs on the same scholarship) in China.

Textbook Recommendation:

A New Practical Chinese Reader (Arabic Edition), BLCUP, 2009 Edition.

A New Chinese Course, Huang Zhengcheng, BLCUP, 2007 Edition.

New Concept Chinese, Cui Yonghua, BLCUP, 2013 Edition.

Great Wall Chinese, Ma Jianfei, BLCUP, 2005 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Listening and Conversation 2/ 0121113 /3 credit hours

The aim of this course in the second semester is to enable the students whose mother language is not Chinese to possess an averagely good command of Chinese listening ability and communication skills and strategies. Students should learn to speak Chinese confidently with averagely good pronunciation and intonation, communicate with local Chinese people in their daily life with confidence and hold conversation with local Chinese on a limited topics, express their intentions and tell the main idea of an event with the words, phrases and sentence patterns that they learn, the rate of sentence errors being less than 40% after their mastery of approximate 1,000 characters and 70 grammar patterns by the end of the semester.

This course is given in language Lab or with modern equipment.

Textbook Recommendation:

Short-Term Spoken Chinese (Beginners, Elementary, and Intermediate), Ma Jianfei, BLCUP, 2nd Edition.

Practical Chinese: Speaking, BLCUP, 2003 Edition.

Practical Chinese: Listening Comprehension, BLCUP, 2003 Edition. 

  1. Intensive Chinese 3/ 0121221 /3 credit hours

This course helps student who already acquire the most basic know-how of Chinese language to better improve their in-depth knowledge of the language and learn to listen, speak, read and write the language more freely in common-purpose language circumstances. This course is an important academic step over which students should find themselves freely communicating in Chinese language in both daily, culture or business-orientated situations.

Textbook Recommendation:

A New Practical Chinese Reader (Arabic Edition), BLCUP, 2009 Edition.

A New Chinese Course, Huang Zhengcheng, BLCUP, 2007 Edition.

New Concept Chinese, Cui Yonghua, BLCUP, 2013 Edition.

Great Wall Chinese, Ma Jianfei, BLCUP, 2005 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Listening and conversation 3/ 0121211 /3 credit hours

The aim of this course in the third semester is to enable the students whose mother language is not Chinese to possess an averagely good command of Chinese listening ability and communication skills and strategies. Students should speak Chinese confidently with good pronunciation and intonation, communicate with Chinese people in their daily life with good confidence and hold conversation with local Chinese people on most topics, express their intentions and tell the main idea of an event with the words, phrases and sentence patterns that they learn, the rate of sentence errors being less than 30% after their mastery of approximate 1,500 characters and 100 grammar patterns by the end of the third semester.

This course is given in language Lab or with modern equipment.

Textbook Recommendation:

Short-Term Spoken Chinese (Beginners, Elementary, and Intermediate), Ma Jianfei, BLCUP, 2nd Edition.

Practical Chinese: Speaking, BLCUP, 2003 Edition.

Practical Chinese: Listening Comprehension, BLCUP, 2003 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Characters/ 0121212 /3 credit hours

The aim of the course is to enrich students handwriting knowledge and related knowledge of Chinese characters. It concentrates on the basic strokes of Chinese characters, the basic components of Chinese characters, and the basic rules of Chinese character writing. To write Chinese character correctly and perfectly will be emphasized, and comprehend the meaning and the pronunciation of Chinese characters will be introduced as well.

Textbook Recommendation:

Practical Chinese: An Elementary Character Workbook, BLCUP, 2003 Edition.

A New Practical Chinese Reader: Chinese Characters, BLCUP, 2011 Edition.

Amazing Character and Magic Brushwork, Wang Xiaojun, 2009 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Reading and Writing 1/ 0121213 /3 credit hours

The course is supposed to instruct student in everyday Chinese reading and basic writing strategies after they have learned Chinese Pinyin basics and begun to master more Chinese characters. Reading and writing courses in their sophomore studies will enrich students’ sense of sentence patterns of everyday Chinese so they begin to write fluently and expressively in common-purpose language use, helping to foster their basic but practical Chinese reading and writing ability in a basic but important step. 

Textbook Recommendation:

Practical Chinese: Reading and Writing, BLCUP, 2008 Edition.

Writing (Elementary), Chen Xianchun, BLCUP, 2005 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Grammar 1/ 0121222 /3 credit hours

The course concentrates on the description and practical utility of Chinese grammar. Students will be systematically acquainted with various grammatical aspects, to begin with morpheme, lexicology, and some basic syntax. With this course students not only understand the basic laws in Chinese grammar, but also begin to be illustrated to convey (and even teach) Chinese language features themselves.

Textbook Recommendation:

Effortless Chinese Grammar, Wu Ying, BLCUP, 2011 Edition.

Basics of Chinese Language (Grammar), Shi Chunhong, BLCUP, 2011 Edition. 

  1. Tourism Chinese/ 0121251 /3 credit hours

The course responds to growing demand of Chinese-speaking tour guides or tour agency professionals with tourism-related business opportunities and emergency management strategies. Real situations will be lectured and discussed on in forms of seminars or workshops.

Students on this course will find themselves working as qualified professionals not only for Chinese traveling in Jordan and other neighboring countries, but also for Arabs traveling in Greater China.

Textbook Recommendation:

The Series of Practical Chinese: Chinese for Tourism, Yao Shujun, Bijing Language and Culture University Press, 2010 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Reading and Writing 2/ 0121312 /3 Credit hours

The course is supposed to instruct student in everyday Chinese reading and basic writing strategies after they acquire language basics and more Chinese characters in previous course, including intensive courses and reading and writing course. The study on reading and writing course in this semester will enrich students’ sense of sentence   patterns of everyday Chinese so they are able to write fluently and expressively in common-purpose language use, helping to foster their basic and practical Chinese reading and writing ability in terms of narration, description, and argumentation, etc.

Textbook Recommendation:

Practical Chinese: Reading and Writing, BLCUP, 2008 Edition.

Writing (Elementary), Chen Xianchun, BLCUP, 2005 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Grammar 2/ 0121321 /3 credit hours

The course as the second and last part of Chinese grammar concentrates on the practical utility of most linguistic characteristics and pragmatic functions in view of Chinese grammar. Different from CHN 304, this course concentrates on the sentence as the elementary form of communication as well as on various semantic proceedings. More advanced rules of grammar will be discussed and mastered.

Textbook Recommendation:

Effortless Chinese Grammar, Wu Ying, BLCUP, 2011 Edition.

Basics of Chinese Language (Grammar), Shi Chunhong, BLCUP, 2011 Edition. 

  1. Advanced Chinese Reading and Writing/ 0121311 /3 credit hours

The course is an academic upon basic but practical Chinese reading and writing ability in terms of narration, description, and argumentation. Students will be instructed to further decode writing styles and tones, organization of syntax, and expression of attitudes in more complicated original contexts in today’s Chinese articles, especially those on different categories of newspapers and magazines.

Textbook Recommendation:

Road to Success: Upper Elementary Reading and Writing, Yu Ping, BLCUP, 2008 Edition.

A New Practical Chinese Reader, Lin Xun, BLCUP, 2015 Edition. 

  1. Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Literature/ 0121331 /3 credit hours:

This course aims to provide the students with an overview of Chinese literature of the modern and contemporary period. Texts will be read as much as possible in Chinese language while attention will also be paid to the literary masterpieces in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

Reading of various literary texts will be used on representative texts to familiarize students with literary terminology and the methods of text interpretation and help them realize the importance of general knowledge for literature. Through group discussion and short presentations about the read materials students will display better cross-cultural communication skills via comparing different cultures.

Textbook Recommendation:

Contemporary Chinese Literature, Li Chunyu, BLCUP, 2016 Edition.

A Concise History of Chinese Literature, Wang Chuanlong, BLCUP. 2015 Edition. 

  1. Introduction to Ancient Chinese Literature/ 0121431 /3 credit hours

The course gives, through illustrating some selected ancient Chinese literary masterpieces, an overview of the development of ancient Chinese literature from as early as Classics of Poetry to Song Dynasty, covering a chronological range over 2.000 years, focusing on some of the best-known masters in view of their literary styles, ideological  genres, linguistic features, and influences upon later generations. Students are encouraged to be engaged in group reading for appreciation and imitation composing of literary works of their own.

Textbook Recommendation:

Introduction to Classical Chinese, Zhou Ying, BLCUP, 2009 Edition.

A Concise History of Chinese Literature, Wang Chuanlong, BLCUP, 2015 Edition. 

  1. Translation (Chinese/English)/ 0121441 /3 credit hours

Students will be trained in translating texts from Chinese into Arabic whereby translation of practical texts such as literary works, newspaper articles, documents, certificates will be taken into special consideration. Model texts will be used to illustrate good translation.

Textbook Recommendation:

A Practical Course in Cross-Cultural Translation, Cheng Jinneng, BLCUP, 2015 Edition. 

  1. Immersion Chinese Society (ICS)/ 0121251 /3 credits hours:

Immersion Chinese Society (ICS/CHN 204*) is understood that once each June a maximum of 15 PU students (Application and selection procedures subject to be made by PU aided by CIPU) enjoy a two-week Chinese society immersion experience (cultural experience and language strengthening tour) in China, aligned with Hanban budget program and Liaocheng University international students programs.

The timing, duration, and fiscal policies of the whole trip of ICS will be further discussed and signed in written form by Philadelphia University and Liaocheng University, on the common understanding that student candidates pay their international travel fees, and Liaocheng University (with its own Hanban budget program and other financial programs available) covers the cultural experience and language strengthening activities within China (including food, group transportation, lecture materials, and living expenditures). A Chinese teacher from CIPU accompanies the whole trip, and necessary training will be conducted before departure on PU campus.

Textbook Recommendation:

Communication: Task-Based Intermediate Spoken Chinese, Zhao Lei, BLCUP, 2013 Edition. 

  1. Chinese Art and Culture/ 0121252 /3 credit hours

The course is conducted in the form of seminars in classrooms or PU Chinese Culture Center, introducing a survey of China to students in such fields as China’s basic information (history, geography, people, daily life, holidays, education, etc.), and Chinese culture (Architecture, tea ceremony, taiji, traditional dressing, thinking modes, etc.). A multitude of pictures and video materials will be displayed and discussed upon, and a short presentation of each student will be conducted, evaluated, and academically recorded by the end of each seminar.

Textbook Recommendation:

An Introduction to Chinese Culture, History, and Geography, BLCUP

Exploring Chinese Culture: A Chinese Reader, Liu Qiangong, BLCUP, 2014 Edition. 

  1. Language Competence/ 0121313 /3 credit hours

Purpose of this training is to help PU students (including but not limited to BA Program students on Chinese Language and Literature) to acquaint themselves with procedure and basic contents of such tests. Students are free to decide whether they should take such tests, and they acquire two credits when taking and passing such tests. CIPU organize the tests and help collect the test fees for Hanban, all according to standards and procedures decided and publicized by Hanban. PU encourages students to take up these training and tests, and supplies with computers or other equipment necessary for these tests.

Chinese language proficiency tests including (but not limited to) HSK/HSKK/YCT/BCT is presently the only officially test of its kind in world Chinese language learning. Students who pass HSK 3 or above are apt to study in Chinese universities on CI scholarship for one semester, one school year, or master or doctoral degree programs (for detailed information please refer to Hanban website).

PU students with CI Scholarship (including but not limited to students majoring in Chinese Language and Literature), upon their successful application to China Hanban via CIPU, attend and fulfill the full discipline plan of that school year/semester in Liaocheng University and/or other Chinese universities (the discipline plan is in line with PU discipline planning), and PU certifies and accepts their Chinese year/semester studies record in the whole discipline planning of this BA program of PU, so that these students graduate the same time with the same diploma with student who don’t attend CI scholarship program in China.

Textbook Recommendation:

HSK Standard Course, Jiang Liping, BLCUP, 2014 Edition. 

               

Second: English Courses:

Writing: (0120115)                                                                       

The aim of this course is to enable the students to acquire the productive skill of language learning. The course is designed to help students practice writing sentences and well-organised and legible paragraphs, emulating discussion, comparison and contrast as well as descriptive models. Most importantly, the students are encouraged to be independent and think for themselves in order to be able to develop their own ideas.

Advanced Reading (0120214) / (PR.0120113)

This course is a continuation of Reading Comprehension 0120113. It develops the art of critical appreciation by developing the powers of understanding, imagination, and reflection.  These powers are part of any truly learning  process.  Students will learn the theory and practice the activity.  The emphasis is on what students need for the material.  Therefore, they will learn how to identify the main ideas and the main concepts.  They will be trained in how to read and summarize the subjects they read in reports.  Finally, students will be trained in how to fully understand and enjoy the material they read.

Linguistics: (0120220) / (PR. 0120221)                                                          

This course aims at acquainting students with linguistics as the science of language study, its aims, aspects and relations to other social sciences and fields. It also aims at acquainting the students with the nature of human language and it characteristics, components and functions. Special emphasis will be laid on the components of English, besides other languages when found appropriate. Aditionally , they will be exposed to some grammar ,phonetics ,phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. pragmatics and language acquisition,because this course is a pre-requiente for all language courses.

English Litrature unntil 1660: (0120250)

This module is designed to increase students’ knowledge of the intellectual, cultural and political background of English literature. A range of texts in drama, poetry and prose fiction from the different periods of English history will be explored in relation to the cultural context of English, and European when appropriate, history. The rise and conditioning influence, on literary history, of the major movements such as the renaissance, humanism, the Reformation, the Restoration, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, slavery and colonialism, etc. will be also studied. Towards this goal, texts will be selected to allow also study of key topics such as government and the court; religion and religious controversy; national identity; gender and sexuality; geography and topography. As such class work will focus on the works of the great writers of English literature, taking into consideration the relationship between these works and a range of other non-literary texts.

Introduction to Literature: (0120251)  / (PR.0130102)

The course familiarizes students with the various literary genres and the literary terms they will come across when reading literary works.  It provides the students with necessary knowledge needed for other literature sybjects.  The course helps students to develop a literary appreciation when reading and helps them to be able to comment on and analyze a literary text.

Syntax: (0120325) / (PR 0120220.)

This course provides a general survey of the assumption and techniques of the analysis of syntactic and morphological structures. Syntax provides students with the analysis of sentences in terms of categories and functions in the phrasal level and sentential level. Morphology studies the word structure, processes of affixation and derivation. Relevant morpho- phonemic processes are also studied as they pertain to changes of word structure . It also covers rules of word formation like compounding, blending, back- formation, acronyms, abbreviations,etc.

Novel: (0120356) / (PR.0120251)

This course is intended to get students acquainted with the English novel and its traditions.  This is done through reading, analyzing and discussing three or four novels at least.  The purpose of this analysis is to enable students to understand the novels discussed and to make it easy for them to make the connection between the world of each novel and the world they live in, and to facilitate their reading on their own.  This course also develops the students’ aesthetic appreciation and critical skills.  In addition to this, it shows the development of the novel in the 17th, 18th, .19th, 20th centuries.

American Literature : (0120458) / (PR.0120251)

This course acquits students with American literature from its beginnings up to the present day.  It involves indepth readings and discussions of selected novels, poems, plays and short stories.  This selection includes works by major writers such as Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Miller and Williams to name but a few.  The purpose of these readings is to demonstrate the development of American literature throughout the ages and its growing importance at present.  This course also sheds light on the literary movements, the literary history, and the general characteristics of American culture.

Introduction to Criticism and Literary Theory: (0120484) / (PR.0120251)

The course introduces students to the milestones of literary criticism from Plato to the modern age. Students study representative positions on representation, truth, and  form. They also study the relationship between literature, morality and politics. Students are encouraged to develop their own critical perspectives visa-vis the assumptions, conceptions or ideas they study.

Technical Writing: (0120211)

The aim of this course is to provide sufficient practice in written English to help students improve their writing skills and develop their own style.  The course involves the students in practicing writing on college-essay models, e.g. argumentative, comparison and contrast, descriptive discussion, expository, etc.  Furthermore, this course is designed to help students summarize long passages into one fourth or one fifth of their original length and write coherent essays through a clearly laid-out outline.  The course also provides opportunities for all students to practice creative writing such as short stories, short poems, and critical-writing.

Short Story: (0120452)

This course aims to introduce students to background information on the nature, development and techniques of the short story and familiarize them with selections of short stories by English, American , European, African and Arab writers, such as Conrad, Lawrence, Poe, James, Chekhov, Achebe and Mahfouz.  Practice on fully understanding all aspects of the selected short stories such as plot, theme, narrative, and characterization is also provided.

Seminer in Literature: (0120482) / (PR 0120251) 

This is an open course intended to enhance the research, summarizing and practical skills of students through working on selected literary movements, texts, writers, poets and playwrights.  It involves students’ literary topic of interest.  Special attention is given to illustrating some literary concepts, such as feminism, modernism, classicism, to name only a few.

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