Advanced Chinese II

PREREQUISITES: TEST SCORE GREATER OR EQUAL 3302.06, OR EAST-UA 205 , OR EAST-UA 9205 , OR CHIN-SHU 301.

PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 205, 9205, OR EQUIVALENT. This section is designed for students who can understand and speak conversational Chinese (all dialects) related to daily-life situations. Students with no background in the language should enroll in the non-heritage section. A permission code is required to register for this course. To better assist with your placement, please review this information: 1. For students who have started their language learning outside of NYU, please take the placement test before registering. (https://www.nyu.edu/cas/flpexam/login.html). 2. For students who have taken language courses at NYU, please provide the instructor with the course name and the semester you took this course when you email for a permission code. 3. If you need a permission code to register, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact Xiaoxiao Jiao, Chinese Language Coordinator, at xxj1@nyu.edu.

Designed to further develop proficiency in speaking and writing through readings on and discussions of socio-cultural topics relevant to today's China. Focuses on improving reading comprehension and writing skills. The objectives are: to further improve oral communicative competence by incorporating semi-formal or formal usages; to acquire vocabulary and patterns necessary for conducting semi-formal or formal discussions of socio-cultural topics; to increase reading speed of texts with more advanced syntax; to learn to make context-based guess about the meaning of a new word, conduct sentence analysis and solve textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write and present more fully developed narratives or reasoned and structured arguments in length; to learn to employ basic rhetoric methods; to learn to appreciate stylistic usage of Chinese language.