Department Of Chinese Language & Culture

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  1- 1	AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY CHINA We first provide a general introduction of Chinese geography, history, culture, and racial characteristics. We will then focus on an elementary understanding of politics, economics, societies and culture after the birth of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. By taking this course, students will be able to analyze situations in China which very so rapidly.
  1- 1	CONVERGENCE- AND INTEGRATION-BASED THINKING AND WRITING The ability of analyzing and solving problems is emphasized as one of the conditions for survival in the 21st century and one of the core elements of creative capabilities. This course was designed to cultivate convergence- and integration-based creative capabilities, which are integrated problem-solving capabilities to collect, analyze and process knowledge and information by reinforcing the ability of analyzing and solving problems, recreate it in a synthetic fashion, and express it effectively through speech and writing. The course will help the students cultivate their synesthesia thinking and communication skills based on sympathy with other human beings, understanding of the community, and positivity or Gongseong that is sought after by Yeungnam University. Its ultimate goals are to promote the students' creative knowledge development and reinforce their writing capabilities consistently through "convergence- and integration-based thinking and writing as a problem-solving approach."
  1- 1	ELEMENTARY CHINESE I The objective of this course is to help students carry on basic conversational Chinese by studying basic pronunciation and vocabulary.
  1- 1	SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE 1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
  1- 1	CHINESE PRONUNCIATION AND BASIC GRAMMAR In this course students will begin to learn Chinese pronunciation and basic grammar.
  1- 2	ELEMENTARY CHINESE II The objective of this course is to encourage students to speak conversational Chinese in a semi-fluent manner. Prerequisite course : Elementary Chinese I.
  1- 2	SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
  1- 2	SOFTWARE AND AI Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
  1- 2	ANCIENT CHINESE IN MODERN LIFE The goal of this class is for understanding Chinese characters and Ancient Chinese in Modern life. By Comparing Ancient Chinese with sino-korean, students are learning the Chinese characters and Ancient Chinese.
  1- 2	CHINESE AND CHINESE CULTURE This course deals with practicing chinese language in entry level, studying roots of some Chinese words, and understading the cultural background of Chinese. So it provides you some opportunities to improve conversational Chinses ability in real life and to understand the Chinese culture more deeply.
  1- 2	CHINESE VOCABULARY PRACTICE If students want to learn to speak Chinese well, first of all students must know basic chinese words. In order to study basic chinese words efficiently and quickly, students have to study systematically. This course primarily aimed at students who have mastered beginning level of chinese. this course will focus on the most important chinese words and their expressions. this will allow students move up to advanced level from beginner's level.
  1- 2	DAILY CHINESE The course offers training and practice in all Chinese language skills, with an emphasis on listening and speaking, Simplified language is used through audio and video materials.

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  2- 1	BASIC HSK GRAMMAR AND READING COMPREHENSION In this course students who study for Basic HSK will learn appropriate grammar and reading comprehension.
  2- 1	PRACTICAL CHINESE CONVERSATION Ⅰ This course is designed to develop practical conversation skills and covers practicing colloquial conversation sentences in various situations from immigration to daily life.
  2- 1	TRAVEL CHINESE Recently, 'travel' has become an important trend. This course focuses on conversation-oriented learning that is necessary during travel to China. In addition to conducting conversation exercises on the assumption of various situations that may occur during the trip, at the same time, it is teach to acquire specific information about the main attractions of China in Chinese.
  2- 1	LOCAL CHINESE CONVERSATION This course is a conversation course for students in the first semester of the second grade who learn and practice the latest Chinese expressions currently used in China. Now the Fourth Industrial Revolution brought about a remarkable change in the lives and societies of humankind. Many changes are taking place in human language. We no longer ask for greetings in paper letters, not on public telephones. The process of ordering food at a fast-food restaurant, drinking coffee, purchasing a cell phone and sending a courier service should be reflected in the Chinese conversation curriculum. In this course, we will try to combine lectures and practical exercises with new vocabulary that emerged in Chinese according to the changing times and necessary expressions used in China now. In particular, students in Grade 2 and Grade 3 who are preparing for the exchange student training course to study at a exchange university in China concentrate on local expressions that are essential before the training.
  2- 1	PRACTICE OF INTERMEDIATE CHINESE(1) The goal of this course is to help students who have taken Elementary Chinese improve their Chinese reading, writing, listening and speaking ability.
  2- 2	INTERMEDIATE HSK GRAMMAR AND READING COMPREHENSION In this course students who study for Intermediate HSK will learn appropriate grammar and reading comprehension.
  2- 2	INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE LINGUISTICS Chinese language courses in college are mainly focused on skills of communication with Chinese people and on reading·interpreting Chinese materials. While this course provides students a linguistic approach.
  2- 2	PRACTICAL CHINESE CONVERSATION Ⅱ As a next course of "Practical Chinese Conversation (1)", this course aims to develop conversation skill in more complicated situations and to develop ability speaking more fluently.
  2- 2	PRACTICE OF INTERMEDIATE CHINESE(2) The goal of this course is to help students who have taken Elementary Chinese improve their Chinese reading, writing, listening and speaking ability. This course is more advanced than Practice of Intermediate Chinese (1)
  2- 2	CULTURAL CHINESE The amity has been over 20 years between Korea and China. Nowadays China is the one of the biggest important cultural exchange partners. This class opens to teach Chinese about the culture of China.
  2- 2	INQUIRY INTO CHINESE CULTURE This lecture through visit China, provides practical experience to comprehend chinese cultural essence and substance.

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  3- 1	ADVANCED CHINESE CONVERSATION Ⅰ As an next course of "Intermediate Chinese Conversation" of sophomore, this course focuses on mastering richer expressions used in various situations of daily life and getting more perfect Chinese as a result.
  3- 1	CHINESE POP CULTURE This course aim at teaching Chinese popular culture which is divided into selected subject.
  3- 1	MEDIA CHINESE This course aims to acquaint students with contemporary Chinese, using various type of media such as newspapers, broadcast and internet, etc.
  3- 1	UNDERSTANDING CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE(1) Through the history of Chinese literature that developed from the ancient times to the Tang Dynasty, we will understand the excellent aspects of Chinese literature while also understanding Chinese culture related to Chinese literature. In addition, through a modern understanding of Chinese literature, we strengthen our understanding of the modern value of Chinese literature.
  3- 1	AI(PRACTICE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) CHINESE TRANSLATION With the development of artificial intelligence, the need for knowledge and technology using artificial intelligence is emerging in the field of Chinese translation. This course introduces artificial intelligence technology into Chinese translation At the same time, it aims to improve Chinese translation ability by comparing and reviewing machine translation and human translation using artificial intelligence.
  3- 1	BASIC TRAINING OF CHINESE KOREAN INTERPRETATION Students who take the Chinese Korean interpretation and translation track will receive an education in the practical ability of Chinese Korean interpretation and translation. In this course students will receive a basic training of Chinese Korean translation.
  3- 2	ADVANCED CHINESE CONVERSATION Ⅱ As a next course of "Advanced Chinese Conversation (1)", this course will be devoted to practice a lot of expressions appeared in normal daily life and specific situations to lead students to perfect Chinese conversation.
  3- 2	BUSINESS CHINESE This class open to teach Chinese, especially in 'Trade Business Field'. It means, this course will familiarize students with 'Business Chinese' which covers shipping, custom clearance, insurance, and the customs.
  3- 2	CAPSTONE DESIGN This course is designed for the junior students m며 oring Chinese Language and Culture. It deals with the theoretical parts of Chinese language structure and improves students application skills.
  3- 2	COMPREHENSION OF CHINESE MODERN LITERATURE CLASSICS This course focuses on Chinese novels, poetry, short stories, etc. among Chinese contemporary literary works, and also learns about the position, value and artist of the masterpiece in Chinese modern literary history. Through this course, we will improve the reading ability of the luxurious writing in the contemporary Chinese literary works, as well as the grasping ablility of the main issues and trends in contemporary Chinese literature.
  3- 2	FIELD WORK The objective of this course is designed for the students in the major of Chinese Language & Culture to achieve both the practical knowledge and the experience in the related job fields.
  3- 2	INTERPRETATION PRACTICE Consecutive interpretation used for conferences or seminars. In this course students will receive a basic training of Korean Chines consecutive interpretation.
  3- 2	LOGIC AND ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WRITING IN CHINESE EDUCATION This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to write about a variety of controversial issues in the field of Chinese education so that the students can enhance their writing competence, integrating critical, logical thinking, analytic ability, and reasoning powers. In order to help students cope adequately with the Chinese essay writing task in the Exam for the License of Teachers, this course presents a variety of theories and skills in the field of Chinese education, which ultimately helps them to enrich their background knowledge. It also provides them with an opportunity to practice expressing their opinions logically and systematically on the basis of logic. In addition, this course deals with the development of a topic statement, discourse cohesion and coherence, and rhetorical structure, etc. Teaching methods employed in this course focus on the presentation and discussion of argumentative essays. The teacher should give relevant feedback on the essay writings.
  3- 2	METHOD & RESEARCH OF CHINESE TEACHING MATERIALS Introduction to methods and techniques employed in investigation and reporting educational problems. Suggested for all candidates in education for undergraduate degrees. In addition, this course deals with methodological issues and problems in education.
  3- 2	UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF CHINESE FILMS The aim of the course is to provide the students with an opportunity to review and understand the history and the major aspects of modern Chinese theater and movies. Furthermore, this course will help the students understand the changes in China and various phenomena in the areas of politics, economy, society and culture, through actual access to Chinese theater and movies.
  3- 2	UNDERSTANDING CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE(2) On the basis of understanding Chinese literature and culture (1), we will understand the excellent aspects of Chinese literature through the flow of Chinese literary history from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, while also understanding Chinese culture related to Chinese literature. In addition, through a modern understanding of Chinese literature, we strengthen our understanding of the modern value of Chinese literature.

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  4- 1	ADVANCED HSK WRITING This course is designed to practice writing wide range of sentences with idioms and phrases and writing articles. And This can be helpful for student to acquire the certificate of high level HSK.
  4- 1	CHINESE POETRY The objective of this course is to understand the core, fundamental thinking of representative chinese poets. An examination of typical poetry ranging from Han yue-fu poetry (漢藥府詩) to old-style poetry (古體詩) and regulated verse (律詩) also known as modern-style Tang poetry (近體詩) will take place.
  4- 1	DISCUSSION ON A PARTICULAR SUBJECT IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGE This course is for fluent Chinese and Korean speakers. In this course students will discuss a particular subject under the guidance of the professor.
  4- 1	PRACTICAL INTERPRETER It is aimed at basic intermediate interpretation. To do this, I train to read Korean and Chinese correctly. We practice various interpretation techniques such as Sight translation , summary speaking, and shadowing. Practice interpretation of boilerplate used at opening and closing ceremonies at international conferences. Finally, we do note-taking and sequential interpreting exercises.
  4- 1	TEACHING METHODOLOGY OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE This course studies educational theory of the chinese language, its historical background, its purpose, and analyzes recent secondary school teaching processes.
  4- 1	CHINESE NOVEL AND CULTURAL CONTENTS Chinese novel is an important literary genre that imply the chinese culture. It is an important element for the chinese cultural content. This lecture opens to analyze the essence of the chinese culture and to plan chinese cultural contents. For this, we select, appreciate and criticize fine pieces of the chinese fiction including the chinese myth and legend.
  4- 1	THE WORLD OF CHINESE CHARACTERS The objective of this course is to become familiar with Chinese characters by studying their origins and the inherent changes that have developed over time. It also learns Chinese living environment and Chinese culture, and establishing a basis for understanding the modern Chinese.
  4- 2	COMPREHENSION OF CHINESE LITERATURE CLASSICS The goal of this course is to heighten the understanding of Chinese psychology, (Chinese thingking and the Chinese emotional state) by reading many famous classical, literary and historical works.
  4- 2	CONTEMPORARY CHINESE The goal of this course is to have the students gain a better and more extensive understanding via speaking everyday, contemporary Chinese. Reading periodicals, newspapers and current magazines will be used to improve their analytical abilities.
  4- 2	UNDERSTANDING CHINESE POLITICS AND SOCIETY This course aims to explore a new way of Korea-China relations by examining the political characteristics and social aspects of modern China as a whole in order to properly understand the country of China, and furthermore, by properly recognizing China.