CHIN152-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)

Chinese Language 1-B

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Following CHIN151 and still focusing on the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, this course teaches how to conduct simple conversations, and read and write simple texts in Chinese at an elementary level, with an adequate cultural understanding of China.

This is an elementary level Chinese language course following the beginner’s course CHIN151. Students will learn more basic Chinese language for everyday communication. About additional 300 words in everyday use, as well as additional 150 Chinese characters will be taught advancing from what students have already learnt in CHIN151. The emphasis in this course is on the functional development of four language skills, which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will lay a solid foundation for further studies in Chinese.

Learning Outcomes

Students will acquire skills in all four areas of the language (reading, writing, speaking and listening), which will become the foundation for developing strategies and skills needed to interact in Chinese. By the end of the course students should:
- be able to understand 500 Chinese basic words (additional 300 on top of CHIN151)
- be able to actively use 350 among the above words (additional 200 on top of CHIN151)
- recognise 300 basic Chinese characters (additional 150 on top of CHIN151)
- be able to actively apply basic Chinese grammar and expressions used in simple everyday situations (e.g., making appointments, describing your school life, going shopping, discussing different means of transportation, etc.)
- have developed learner autonomy and reflective skills
- have acquired skills and competencies transferrable to a variety of disciplines
- enable and encourage community engagements (especially Chinese speaking communities)
- have some intercultural awareness and sensitivity; and apply some global competency through communication in a second language.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Engaged with the community

Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

CHIN151 or placement test. Students who have learnt more than 300 Chinese characters, or
have a level of spoken Chinese equivalent to the level reached by the students at the very end of this course, will not be admitted to this course.

Restrictions

CHIN101, CHIN105. Students who have learnt more than 300 Chinese characters, or have a level of spoken Chinese equivalent to the level reached by the students at the very end of this course, will not be admitted to this course.

Recommended Preparation

This course is designed for students who have completed CHIN151 or a placement test.

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00 Zoom
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Nancy Chu

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
In-class participation 10% weekly
Weekly check-up (10) 10% Weekly
Weekly online participation 10% Weekly
Workbook exercises (5) 25% As scheduled
Speaking tests (2) 10% Held weeks 6 and 12 via Zoom
Term Written Tests (2) 35% Held weeks 7 and 14 via Zoom

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Yuehua Liu et al; Integrated Chinese, Volume 1, Workbook (Simplified Chinese), 4th Edition ; 4th Edition; Cheng & Tsui, 2016 (Available at the UC Bookshop).

Yuehua Liu et al; Integrated Chinese, Volume 1, e-Textbook (Simplified Chinese) ; 4th Edition; Cheng & Tsui, 2016.
The digital textbook can be purchased online at Cheng & Tsui

Audio Recordings for Integrated Chinese (Volume 1), Fourth Edition. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2017. Available at.

Recommended dictionaries
A Chinese-English Dictionary, revised edition. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 1997
OR
Concise English-Chinese and Chinese-English Dictionary, 2nd edition. Hong Kong: Commercial and Oxford University Press. 2001

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All CHIN152 Occurrences

  • CHIN152-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • CHIN152-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)