Moving China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8366, Course #CMUN 239
Professor Walter Gregg

This course offers a unique opportunity to film and document China as it changes virtually before our eyes. This is a practical, creative and informative moving image class for students who have no idea how to make a video and for those that do. From traditional hutong neighborhoods to the Soviet-influenced architecture of Tiananmen Square, to the ancient Forbidden City and the iconic Olympic venues of the Bird's Nest and Water Cube, the course will provide insight into the depth of China's past and its rapidly changing present, offering the rare opportunity to produce compelling film work at this seminal time.

The only requirements for the class are an open mind, a willingness to accept challenges and a video camcorder or a digital camera that can also record video. Designed for students who are passionate about their commitment to this study abroad program, the course is about exploring yourself and a different culture through moving images. You will acquire a comprehensive understanding of documentary video making and video editing. Video and essay assignments cover distinctive areas of Beijing and life in China. The work will be submitted for critique and sharing with others in class each week. The course is structured to encourage you to get out among the locals, work together and share with one another using your individual creative freedom to express yourself on each project. Throughout the semester, guest videographers, writers, professional filmmakers, musicians and a range of others will visit the class and share with us their lives in China.

By the conclusion of the course, students will have an intimate knowledge of China and Chinese culture and the talent and skill to produce a 15-minute documentary video in digital format that integrates concept, film, sound and personal creativeness which will be suitable for display as a film short or on a website. They will come away from this semester with an insight into another reality that was heightened by the discipline and observational skills learned in Moving China.

Music of China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8392, Course #MUSC 389
Professor Jeffrey Roberts

To the eyes of the West, Chinese music, while being part of massive a 4,000-year history, is sometimes conceived of in simplistic and one-dimensional ways. The simplicity of the five-note scale, the face paint of Peiking Opera or ancient ritual bells, drums and chimes, while touching on some significant highlights, builds an iconic idea of Chinese music history as having grown from and developed from a single cultural identity. The reality is that, Chinese music has had significant cultural diversity within its boarders and a great deal of international influence. In fact, most of the Chinese instruments that are recognized throughout the world as 'Chinese' actually originated from outside its boarders. And within China, there are more varieties of Ethnic folk music (which are not the tradition of the Han majority) than any other country in the world. Thus, this course is not titled 'Chinese Music' but 'Music in China', because in order to understand the story of this country's music we have to uncover a story of diverse culture and influence.

Our task in this course is to uncover this story through readings, recordings, attending live music concerts in Beijing as well as interacting with traditional musicians in Beijing that come from different ethnic backgrounds. We will listen to, talk about, evaluate and critique various styles and genres of music that span 4,000 years and multiple cultures. We want to understand this music, not just in relation to ourselves and our own culture, but also in relation to the cultural perspectives from which it has arisen. This will be accomplished through a constant comparison between the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of Chinese culture and Western Culture.

Because the history of music in China stretches so far back into the past (if you compare where some music traditions in China started versus Western classical music, China beats the west by thousands of years), the timeline and information is vast. We could not and will not try to digest it in full portions, but rather, sketch the outline, sample some representative music and spend a little more time on some music traditions that deserve extra emphasis.

This class also focuses on developing general music appreciation skills oriented to the traditional music of China. Prior studies in music are not required and any musical concepts or terminology needed to develop music appreciation skills will be taught as part of the class

Discovering China Through Film, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8300, Course #CMUN 260
Professor Zhang Aihua

The course will give an overview of major films produced in mainland China since 1949. We will examine the genres of Chinese film better known in contemporary China, and consider them a major source of reflection upon, and critique of contemporary Chinese society and culture. The focus will be on films of three film generations, 3rd,4th and 5th, so called, which construct the main frame of contemporary Chinese mainland cinema. They cover the periods from 1950s to 1980s, and as well as, most important of all, some classics directed by the new generation of filmmakers of the 1990s, normally grouped under the rubric of the sixth-generation directors.

All films chosen for the course will help inform our understanding of modern China in terms of its material conditions and ideology. Furthermore, the narrative structures and cinematic images celebrate the changes and convey the anxieties associated with it.

Chinese Architecture: The Role and Future of Traditional Architectural Forms, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Course # FNAR 395
Professor Gene Geinzer

The course will survey four principle forms of traditional Chinese architecture, and present a selection of Domestic structures. Two field trips will be conducted to examine an example of each of these forms. During the spring Yunnan Excursion trip the students will examine the Pagodas at Dali, and the gates of the Confucian temple in Jianshui. Students will be taught how to photographically record and then measure each type of structure. Each student will undertake an intensive study of one traditional building. A research paper will use not only standard academic documentation but photographs and drawings, to indicate analysis and understanding of a Chinese structure.

China in the World Economy, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #10223, Course #ECON 364
Professor Frank Hawke

This course will focus on China's economic relations with the rest of the world. With an historical overview as background, it will concentrate on China's trade and foreign investment during the reform era (1978-present). Students will examine the roles of foreign trade and investment in China's rapid economic growth and some of the issues that has fostered, especially with the U.S. The course will discuss the reform of China's state-owned enterprises and the government's strategy to create national champions that can compete globally, and the implications of that policy. The students will learn about the WTO and the significance of China's membership in that organization. The different strategies of various investors in China will be examined and the students will participate in am M&A negotiation simulation.

Marketing in China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #10229, Course #MARK 363
Professor Feng Naixiang

The primary objective of this course is to expose you to issues involved in China's marketing. The Chinese business is becoming increasingly more aware of the international marketplace and is looking for employees with international expertise. General examples and frameworks of China's marketing will be covered through lectures and class discussions. Also some specific examples of how to market products China through will be discussed through group projects. By providing the framework and one in-depth example, students should be able to apply their knowledge of marketing to the Chinese situations.

International Finance, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #5716, Course #FINC 355
Professor Xu Yiping

This course is designed to give students a deeper understanding of the issues managers must consider when making financial decisions. The course discusses time value of money, cost of capital, the theory of capital budgeting, capital budgeting in practice, options, derivatives application, agency theory, capital market efficiency and capital structure management, as well as special topics on corporate finance.

This course should help prepare students for careers in commercial and investment banking, corporate financial management, as well as more general business careers that have a substantial finance component.

International Business, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4384, Course #BSAD 202
Professor Xu Erming

This subject explores some of fascinating challenges of managing across countries. It aims to develop your understanding and appreciation of the strategic thinking and practices required to act internationally and to successfully conduct business with people, business and governments in other countries. Building on the themes of subjects such as International Business Environment, global monetary system, strategies, structures, and functions, you should be able to develop an understanding of the distinctive features of selected countries or companies and aspects of their particular management practices that will assist you to achieve the subject's aims.

This subject will also consider ways in which the major international business theories and behaviors may be adapted to ensure their application is carefully considered when applying the management theory in an international setting. The subject aims to enhance your skills as a manager operating internationally through the development of a more integrated view of international business and related management practices.

China's Reform and Development, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #10230, Course #ECON 368
Professor Ding Dou

This course consists of twelve chapters. The first chapter addresses China’s general economic performance since 1978, and the following three chapters evaluate it respectively in different methods of the development economics: the cost-benefit analysis, the development strategy, and the environmental protection. Then the remaining eight chapters focus on the lively reforms of some main aspects in China’s economy, including state-owned enterprise, township-and-village enterprise, agriculture, banking, electricity and telecommunication, and the two important phenomenon caused by China’s economic reform, privatization and urbanization. If some other aspects of China’s reform and development would be required by students to know, I would like to complement.

Journalism in China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8396, Course #CMUN 269
Professor Edward A. Gargan

This course is a practicum, in which students, through a mix of lectures, briefings and discussions, will delve into nature of reporting in China. This course is intended to stimulate students to think about how one reports about a country like China. This means understanding what reporting is, how journalists decide what to report, how they decide how to write about a subject, and how an image of China is reflected in a body of reportage.

Students are expected over the course of the semester to read every China story in the four major American newspapers, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. We will examine how western correspondents in China write about this country, interview several correspondents and engage in some journalism of our own. We will also examine how Chinese journalists write about their own country, and discuss the differences between journalism in China and western journalism.

Journalism is about writing and the students in this course are expected to write a reported piece of journalism (800 – 1,000 words) weekly. We will read each other’s work and discuss it in class with the same verve we discuss the work of western correspondents based here. While the emphasis will be on the print media, there will be guest lecturers who will discuss documentary film making and television journalism in China.

Students will take on one major project this semester. It should be either a major piece of reporting or feature writing (all subject to discussion), or a research paper on journalism in China.

This course will be conducted in a seminar format, which means we will take turns leading the discussions of the readings. This course is intended to be fun, immediate and challenging. Come prepared to talk, to read, and to write.

Modern Chinese History, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8302, Course #HIST 346A
Professor Shen Weirong

This course is a survey of the modern and contemporary history of China. It is similar to the courses offered to students in Chinese universities. The course is designed to introduce the students to what has happened in China from 1840 to the 1990s. The aim is to have students appreciate how the Chinese Empire, with a bright and advanced civilization in ancient times, became a semi-colony of the western powers, and how the Chinese people pushed forward the modernization of China.

Cultural Revolution in China While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8304, Course #HIST 346B
Professor Zhao Xiurong

The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a critical period of China's modern history. During this time, Mao summoned the populace to attack the state by attacking various elements in the social and political structure. The Cultural Revolution has remained a very sensitive period in Chinese collective historical memory, and it is fairly recent that the PRC has permitted accounts of this era to be published.

We will examine this period from the perspectives of political, social, and cultural history utilizing a variety of materials such as memoirs of Chinese, accounts of foreigners in China, films, primary documents, and historical monographs. This course will explore the following themes: the chronology of the Cultural Revolution; China's system of education prior to and during the Mao years; the relationship between politics, education, and professional success; the Red Guards and their connection to the broader political context; social, generational, and regional differences in experiences. We will pay particular attention to the theme of memory and trauma, and the various ways in which accounts of this period have been represented to give meaning to this age of violence and factionalism.

Modern Chinese Literature in Translation, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8798, Course #LITR 291
Professor Zhang Jing

This course is a survey of the modern Chinese literature from 1918 to the present. It will focus on the fiction, poetry, and essays during the 3 periods (1918~1949; 1949~1976; since 1976) in the 20th Century. Through a close study of famous Chinese writers and poets such as Lu Xun, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen, Ba Jin, Chang Eileen, Ai Qing, Chen Yingzhen, Wang Meng, Han Shaogong, Mo Yan, and Jia Pingwa, as well as some of the avant-garde writers, students will have the opportunity to explore their own ideas of what the development of the Chinese literature in the 20th Century is like, and be informed of one of the important sides of modern Chinese culture.

Modern Chinese Literature in Chinese, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4400, Course #CHIN 341
TBA

This course is a close reading of the important works of some great writers and poets, such as Lu Xun, Xu Zhimo, Lao She, Shen Congwen, Chang Eileen, Yu Hua, and Gao Xingjian, who represent the development and the changes of the modern Chinese literature from 1918 to the present. Students will have the opportunity to explore their own ideas of the main aesthetic characteristics of the Chinese literature in the 20th century, as well as its historical and social background, and be informed of one of the important sides of the modern Chinese culture. With the close reading, students will develop their ability of reading, understanding and criticizing the original Chinese literary work. Students will greatly expand their Chinese vocabularies, especially the literary one, and develop their skill in writing comments on literary works.

Chinese Political Philosophy, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4442, Course #PLSC 300
Professor Wei Zhengxiang

The course is designed for the students to understand modern and future politics of China through its traditional political philosophy. Chinese traditional political philosophy can be focused on three spheres: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The course will teach the political philosophy of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism respectively and then illustrate their relationships based on the comparison between Chinese and West political philosophies.

Daoism, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8310, Course #THEO 169
Professor Deng Xiaosong

In the process of its rise to its decline throughout the country's feudal society, religious Daoism established a relationship with China's Confucianism and the heterogeneous religions of mutual repellence and mutual assimilation, developing toward syncretism. In each stage of its development, religious Daoism was always closely linked with and exerted profound influence upon the politics, economy, culture, art, natural sciences, and social life.

This class is a guide to the spiritual landscape of Daoism. In it the students will encounter events in the history of Daoism, meet the sages who wrote the Daoist texts, be introduced to the various schools of Daoist thinking, and get a feel for what it means to practice Daoism today.

History of Chinese Religions, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8318, Course #THEO 167
Professor Yang Huiling

This course is a survey of religions and their history in China. Through the course, students will read into religious and cultural Canons, acquire knowledge of both native religions such as primal religious practices, Confucianism and Taoism, as well as “foreign” religious in China, including Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, by inquiring into how they spread into China and permeated with each other in history.

Religions in China is such a complex being, evolved through long history and peculiar cultural background. The course consists of two stages. The first stage focuses on Chinese Canons and the second on History of Religions in China. Through the first stage, students must read original Chinese Canons assigned, understanding the core value, analyze key religious and cultural concepts from the root of Chinese culture. It won’t be easy for students to understand original Chinese Canons by translations, it’s equally challenging for a Chinese instructor to represent them in English to students from a different cultural background with a little knowledge of language and cultural. The best and might well be worst experience about the course is the Chinese voice and opinions which are based on China cultural, historical, and religious context. The second stage requires more reading and critical thinking by reviewing historical processes of enculturation and integration of religions in Chinese culture and society. In this way, the students can build either insights to the core of Chinese value, culture and religion, as well to trace the historical evolutions and find inspirations from history.

The course will not address religions of different ethnic groups, nor will deal with popular folk religions, but lay more emphasis on Chinese religious teachings, its evolution and practice. This is a more philosophical, historical and cultural approach rather than sociological and anthropological approach.

The course is going to be real cross-cultural communications and mutual inspiring.

History of Christianity in China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #10234, Course #THEO 360
Professor Huang Jianbo

This course is a survey of the history of Christianity in China. Since Buddhism is recognized as a "Chinese religion", Christianity in its various forms is now the largest "foreign religion" in China and has special significance in the relationship between China and other countries. For this reason, the study of the history of Christianity in China constitutes an important basis for understanding the history of the relationship between China and other countries. Through a systematic study of this history, students will acquire knowledge of Christianity and its enculturation in China, including the four periods of Christian development in China:
- the so-called Nestorian mission from the 7th to 9th centuries during the Tang dynasty,
- the “Nestorian” and Franciscan missions under the Yuan Mongol dynasty (1264-1368),
- the Jesuit and other Catholic missions of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (1368-1774)
- and the Christian mission in general since the 19th century.

Contemporary Questions in Chinese Philosophy, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #, Course #PHIL 194
Professor Wen Haiming

This course is a survey in contemporary questions in Chinese philosophy with a focus on Confucianism. We will introduce students to the questions, methods and approaches in learning Confucianism. We will learn Confucian Analects, Mencius Neo-Confucianism, and then significant body of modern discussions on Confucianism from a comparative perspective. We will examine the roots and context of Confucius and his life and writings, and then conclude with several weeks of why many people here see his work as relevant to contemporary and current-day China. We will cover contemporary debates about Confucianism, as well as the attacks during the Cultural Revolution. The student is expected to have a basic understanding of philosophy or Chinese culture.

Sino-US Relations, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4444, Course #PLSC 300
Professor Shi Yinhong

The goal of this course is to help students obtain, in the context of dynamic history and complex realities of power and ideas, a better grasp of the China-U.S. relations, the most important bilateral relations to China at the present as well as in a large part of her modern history, and probably also the most important ones to the United States in the coming decades. The general orientation of the past evolution of the intercourses between these two powers with different traditions but very similar "continental" conditions will be surveyed, the developments in the most recent years and months emphasized, and the predictable future prospects discussed, with various major "internal" determinants of the policy behaviors of China and U.S. toward each other being taken in analysis and understanding.

Chinese Political and Economic Reform, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4446, Course #PLSC 300
Professor Russell Leigh Moses

This course is an examination of the political, economic, and social forces that led to and sustain China's contemporary drive towards modernization. The time frame is from 1978 to the present day, with more emphasis placed upon the regimes of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Aside from such areas as the political causes of and ideological changes in economic reform, relations between government and enterprises, and the interactions between the central government and local authority, our efforts will also look at the debates raging here about the direction and destination of China.

This course then is an examination of what Chinese reform is and why it is. As China's power has risen, so have the expectations of leaders and the public here about the sort of system¡ªthe type of state and the character of the society---that China should strive for. There have fascinating debates taking place in government and intellectual circles about what sort of country China should be and how to get there. Along with these deliberations is a shift in the balance of power within the Chinese government, such that the ways in which policy is made here is also being transformed.

The purpose of this course is to begin to comprehend and to start to speak about the composition, course and conduct of Chinese reform in a more sophisticated way. The course is also meant to compel you to rethink the ways in which China is organized, managed, and reformed.

Chinese Medicine, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8314, Course #ASIA 297
Professor Shelly Ochs

"Traditional Chinese Medicine" has become an essential, if contested, part of the social and political identity of modern China. The official government policy is to support what it calls the "scientific development" of medical thinking and practices associated with the medical traditions indigenous to China, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, qi gong, and orthopedic manipulations. In this class, we will examine the concepts behind varying traditions of Chinese medicine and how this set of ideas and practices has been used to meet the ideological, political, as well as medical, needs of various groups in China, the United States, and Europe. Students will gain a practical understanding of how practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine are trained and how consumers access treatments. Observing clinical encounters and demonstrations of treatment modalities will be a part of our experience, as students learn about the fundamental ideas and practices that constitute traditional medicine in China today.

The Peoples of China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #10232, Course #SOCL 280
Professor Zhang Haiyang

China is a complex whole. Most students can study part of it. Our course is trying to be holistic. Focusing on the ethnic minorities perspective, this lecture is gong to introduce China's cultural diversity and unity as a whole, including its diversified cultural legacies, its governance of ethnic minority affairs, the interaction between the big tradition and little traditions, the paradox of development facing by the minority peoples and the necessity of safeguarding equity of cultural continuity for China to build a harmonious society. The course is based on lectures once a week, most of them delivered by minority scholars or students from different cultural backgrounds, including a Tibetan, a Uyghur and a Mongol, together with Professor Zhang. The whole lecture series is built up with 3 modules in the ratio of 4:3:3 or 4:4:4. Module I is a general introduction of cultural mappings in China. Module II is an elaboration on ethnic minority in North China; Module III focus on major minorities in South China. Each lecture is composed of 3 sections: 1. A brief introduction to an interesting topic for your questions and discussion. 2. Questions and answers to the contents in your reading package. 3 An intensive discussion on a topic or a group for exchanging views to a tentative conclusion. Most of your lectures will be conducted by Prof. Zhang, Haiyang from the Central University of Nationalities. All guest speakers will be invited by Prof. Zhang from his campus or from the China Tibetology Center in Beijing. A visit to the Campus of the Central University of Nationalities for visiting the campus museum and interacting with minority graduate students over a Uyghur food table is the highlight of this course before your final examination. A deep and favorable impression of China's cultural diversity is the reward to yourself and a legacy to your family.

China’s Development and Globalization, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #10233, Course #SOCL 266
Professor Chen Lanyan

This course examines China’s development and its participation in the globalization of the world in modern Chinese history from a gender perspective. It covers China’s transformation from a traditional, imperial and semi-colonial society, through the founding of the People’s Republic, and to the recent years in which China became a member of the World Trade Organization and decided to build a “Xiao Kang” (literally in English, “well-off”) society. It examines the changes globalization has brought to trade as they are reflected through China’s experience as a trading country. It discusses how China moved from a previously collectivist planned economy to a socialist market-based economy and has undergone industrial reforms and rural restructuring and the recent participation in what Thomas Friedman called – ten “flattening forces” of globalization. This discussion shall focus on how this participation impacts on men and women and the growing gender disparities. These disparities, which give rise to new vulnerabilities, result from gender-based segmentation in the labor market, differential income, and gender impacts of reform policies in transitional China. These reform policies include the family planning policy and household-based land contract systems, state ownership reforms and debilitating labor relations, and heightened discrimination against women and girls and the decline of social safety net and labor protection, especially among migrant workers, under the changing role of the government. The course also examines the different views of the challenges China’s participation in globalization poses to the world. It attempts to examine some of the proposals for making globalization work for women in both developed countries, such as the United States, and developing countries, including China. At least ten topics are suggested for discussion during the course.

Introduction to Chinese Martial Arts (Wushu), While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4452, Course #THTR 395
Professor Howard Hao

This course is a survey of Chinese Wushu---which represents Chinese traditional sports. Students will select to learn some forms at this class. They are Compulsory Boxing (which is international competition routine) Swordplay, Form and Will Boxing and Pricking Foot Boxing, 42-Form-Taichi Boxing, 32-Form-Taichi Sword Form, General Sword Form, and Simplified Eight-Form Chen Style Taijiquan. This class will make students know Chinese Wushu from experience.

External Experience in China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here.
Class #3466, Course #INTS 370
Jason Gong, Acting Internship Coordinator

This course is intended for students to obtain in-depth knowledge of working in China and of Chinese people by providing you an opportunity to learn from the real Chinese world through working and interacting with the people and organizations. The purpose of this course is not only to gain working experience but, more importantly, to encourage students to think about China in a deeper and more meaningful way outside the classroom.

Students are placed in an organization as an intern for 10-16 hours a week, and instructed by an on-site supervisor. By the end of the semester, students will not only have developed their work experience and skills in a professional setting, applied their academic learning to the “real world”, but also have gained direct understanding about social, economical or political issues in China through close-up observance, immersion and reflection.

Students can only register this course for credit once during their study at TBC and meet at least one of the two following prerequisites: having studied 2 or more years of college-level Chinese language classes; having studied one semester at TBC. Students must submit the application form and a resume to enroll the course. Students should also consult their home institutions about acceptance of the internship course credits before they enroll.

Please download the application form and send the completed application form and your resume to j.zhao@thebeijingcenter.org.
TBC's internship policy
Internship Course Application Form
Non-for-credit Independent Internship Monthly Report

Ricci Research Seminar: Approaches to Researching China, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #5512, Course #UNIV 302
Professor Jean-Paul Wiest

This course is a research seminar designed to introduce students to basic and advanced perspectives and techniques in Chinese studies. The seminar presents and evaluates methods and sources that are utilized to conceive of and comprehend the development of China across time periods and perspectives. The complexity of the subject demands that research be both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, and so each student is assigned a project advisor with specific expertise in his/her topic of research. Every student is provided with a class schedule outlining periods for group classes and periods for one on one discussion with their class instructor and/or their project advisor. He/she is expected to submit a research proposal at the start of the course and to discuss their findings with classmates as the semester progresses. A final substantial paper (12 single-space pages or more) is required.

Note: This seminar is only open to Ricci Scholar students.

Regular Elementary Chinese I, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4388, Course #CHIN 101

This one-semester course aims to provide students who have no Chinese learning experience with basic knowledge and skills of Mandarin Chinese in oral communication, reading and writing. On completion of this course, students will be able to have daily conversations including talking about families, hobbies, school life, weather, transportation, making appointments and shopping, as well as reading and writing notes and letters. About 350 Chinese characters will be introduced in this course.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Integrated Chinese (Level 1-part 1)

Regular Elementary Chinese II, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4392, Course #CHIN 102

This one-semester course aims to provide students who have a Chinese learning experience equivalent to Elementary Chinese I with basic knowledge and skills of Mandarin Chinese in food, sports, travel, going to a party, seeing a doctor, and renting an apartment. On completion of this course, students will build up comprehensive knowledge of Chinese grammar and essential vocabulary. About 350 Chinese characters will be introduced in this course.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Integrated Chinese (Level 1-part 2)

Intensive Elementary Chinese (I & II), While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4386/4390, Course #CHIN 101/CHIN 102

This is a one semester course and it aims to provide students who have no Chinese learning experience with solid communicative skills as they discuss everyday topics such as food, sports, travel, going to a party, seeing a doctor, and renting an apartment. It covers all of the contents of Elementary I and advances into pre-intermediate level at the end of the semester. On completion of this course, students will build up comprehensive knowledge of Chinese grammar and essential vocabulary. About 700 Characters will be introduced in this course. In this course students are required to comprehend and produce paragraph-level Chinese. Intensive Elementary Chinese aims to fit one year of studying Chinese into a single semester and is thus worth 6 credits.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Integrated Chinese (Level 1-part 1), Integrated Chinese (Level 1-part 2)

Regular Intermediate Chinese I, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8794, Course #CHIN 395

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Integrated Chinese Level 2

Regular Intermediate Chinese II, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #8796, Course #CHIN 395

This is a course designed for students who are with intermediate Chinese level (including reading, writing, listening and speaking). This course emphasizes on improving the ability of the learners to use Chinese for communications, reading comprehension and writing assignments.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Integrated Chinese Level 2

Intensive Intermediate Chinese (I & II), While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4624/4396, Course #CHIN 103/CHIN 104

This course is an integrated course for the student abroad with the middle level of Chinese. Each lesson in the used textbook has a topic whose content mainly introduces people's dialogue in everyday life including term beginning, dormitory, restaurant, friends and relationships, movie and movie influence, travel, post office, Chinese festivals, physical culture, family, and education. The student can improve their Chinese language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as further strengthen their ability of communication after finishing this course. Intensive Intermediate Chinese aims to fit one year of studying Chinese into a single semester and is thus worth 6 credits.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Integrated Chinese Level 2

Intensive Advanced Chinese (I & II), While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4398/5596, Course #CHIN 250/CHIN 251

The purpose of this course is to enable students to master advanced-level Chinese language structures, expressive styles, and conventions of communication used in formal situations and academic exchanges. Meanwhile, it is also important to assist students with their realization for today's China. Therefore, the teaching plans focus on the following three areas: First, utilizing different socially and culturally relevant topics to help students systematically master the structures, vocabulary, use of idiomatic expressions, writing styles, and discourse structures commonly used in formal situations; Second, fostering students' ability to express themselves accurately and appropriately through communicative exercises; Third, choosing supplementary materials to help students learn about Chinese cultural concept, social changes, economic development, and human relationships nowadays.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: China Scene--an Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course

Note: Students enrolled in this 3 credit course must also be registered to take Modern Chinese Literature in Chinese for an additional 3 credits.

Advanced Conversational Chinese, While faculty change their syllabi to reflect developments here in China and because of new research, syllabi from the previous year's course can be found here
Class #4398/5596, Course #CHIN 250/CHIN 251

This is an integrated course designed for students who are with advance Chinese level (including reading, writing, listening and speaking). This course covers twelve pieces of real authentic materials about different aspects of the society in modern China, such as Different Culture, Parents and Children, Face the Desert, etc. and emphasizes on improving the ability of the learners to use Chinese for communications, reading comprehension and writing assignments. Through plenty of special trainings, students will be strong in oral Chinese, know how to talk over social phenomenon with Chinese natives in real life with a good understanding of China.

Duration: 13 weeks (with mid-term and final exams)
Textbook: Short-term Spoken Chinese (Intermediate)