2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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CHIN& 123 Chinese III (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly CHNSE 103 - CCN; Elementary Chinese III

Prerequisite CHIN& 122  with at least a 1.5 grade or instructors permission.

Course Description
The third quarter of a first-year sequential course designed to help the students acquire the ability to speak, read, and write Chinese.

Course Content
A. Further improvement of pronunciation, listening skills, and sentence construction
B. Professions and occupations
C. Basic national institutions
D. Basic clothing, furnishings, and daily consumables
E. Additional 200 Chinese characters (cumulative)
F. Basic historical information

Student Outcomes
1. Use skills learned in Chinese 101/102 with greater speed and accuracy. A,B,C,D,E

2. Use vocabulary of 1500 words (cumulative), including vocabulary for occupations. A,B,C,D,E

3. Make an appointment or similar arrangement on the phone. B,D

4. Give a short prepared presentation in Chinese. B,D,E

5. Describe the immediate physical environment of daily life (clothing, room etc). A,B,C,D,E

6. Describe (in Chinese or English) salient public institutions in China. A,B,D,E

7. Read and write 200 Chinese characters (cumulative). A,E

8. Explain (in Chinese or English) 20 salient features or figures of Chinese history. A,E

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
A. Written tests
B. Oral tests
C. Dictation
D. Group conversation work
E. Written assignments



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