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MAND 4
Intermediate Mandarin (First Quarter)

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Course Description

Students will read and discuss texts dealing with the geography, history, social and cultural practices of the Chinese-speaking world. The course will review the linguistic functions and grammatical structures of first-year Chinese. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing of the first-quarter low intermediate level of Mandarin will be introduced and practiced within a cultural framework.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate an increasingly consistent command of essential vocabulary recognize and reproduce at least 600 Chinese characters and language structures necessary to request and provide, orally and in writing, an expanding range of somewhat sophisticated information such as dating, renting an apartment, sports, travel and at the airport.
• Derive meaning from longer texts of increasing complexity, [relying less on contextual clues] to extract main ideas and supporting details, and to interpret some subtleties of the text.
• Compose comprehensible, paragraph-level discourse about familiar topics to reflect an increasingly consistent command of vocabulary and language structures.
• Demonstrate an increasingly accurate grasp of the subtleties in the idiosyncracies of Mandarin-speaking cultures, by analyzing and comparing them to one's own cultures.

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Course Details

Units

5 Units

Hours

• Weekly Lecture Hours: 5
• Weekly Lab Hours: 0

Gen Ed

General Education Class

Program Status

Program Applicable

Credit

Credit - Degree Applicable

Transferability

Transferable to both UC and CSU

Grading Method

Letter Grading

Requisite and Advisory

Prerequisite(s)

MAND 3 equivalent to three years of high school Mandarin or equivalent

Advisory(ies)

ESL 272 and ESL 273, or ESL 472 and ESL 473, or eligibility for EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5

Corequisite(s)

Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills

Limitation(s) on Enrollment

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