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Undergraduate | ANU-CHIN2019 | 2024

Literary Chinese 1

Course information for 2024 intake

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Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Start dates
20 Feb 2024,
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Entry requirements
Prior study needed
Duration
14 weeks

Price from

$1,500

Upfront cost

$0

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Literary Chinese 1

About this subject

  • Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

    1. Recognise and translate in a way appropriate to context a vocabulary of about 700 items.
    2. Identify and explain the basic grammar and sentence structures used in a range of short anecdotal and philosophical texts from pre-Qin (before 221 BC) and Han (206 BC to 220 AD) times.
    3. Differentiate linguistic registers used in basic texts of Classical and Literary Chinese, and translate these accurately into English.
    4. Identify basic textual references through the use of standard Sinological reference tools; and consider these references against the immediate background of intellectual and cultural developments in pre-Qin (before 221 BC) and Han (206 BC to 220 AD) China.

Entry requirements

Others

You will be expected to demonstrate a level of proficiency equivalent to CHIN2023 and/or JPNS2013 and you may be required to complete a language proficiency assessment.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

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