2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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CHIN& 122 Chinese II (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly CHNSE 102 - CCN

Prerequisite CHIN& 121 with at least a 1.5 grade or instructor permission.

Course Description
The second quarter of a first year sequential course designed to further promote the ability to speak, read and write basic Mandarin Chinese.

Course Content
Review of skills learned in Chinese 101
Improved pronunciation
Topics of travel and education
Location and relative distance
Stores, city features
Likes, dislikes, and preferences
Simple subordinate clauses (time, place, concessions, conditionals)
120 Chinese characters, (cumulative)
Basic Geography

Student Outcomes
 

  1. Demonstrate intermediate Chinese comprehension by using the skills learned in Chin&121 with greater speed and accuracy. 
  2. Draw connections between the hidden values of Chinese Culture and how they impact the context of daily communications. 
  3. Produce sentences and paragraphs with Chinese characters in a variety of ways. 
  4. Respond in Chinese to simple and more complex situations in daily life. 


Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
Written tests
Oral tests
Dictation
Group conversation work
Presentations



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