University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 20

ECTS credits : 10

Level : SCQF level 7

Semester: 2

Availability restrictions: This module is restricted to students taking pursuing a Chinese Studies joint degree, and students studying Chinese as a third subject who have already taken CN1012. Students not on the Chinese Studies programme who wish to take CN1012 must first contact the School of Modern Languages for approval.

Planned timetable: 11:00-12:00 Mon

This module follows on from the first semester module CN1012 intended for students with prior learning and allows students to further develop their communicative and written competence in Chinese, and to broaden their knowledge of China’s cultural history. Students will learn to become accurate in their use of the spoken language, and focus on acquiring a solid ability of reading and writing traditional characters; they will gain confidence in reading material written for native speakers of the language (e.g. news reports, poetry, academic writing), and will also develop intermediate written composition skills.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must take CN1012

Anti-requisite(s): In taking this module, students cannot take CN1021.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1 lecture X 1hr (X 11 weeks), 5 X 1h language classes (X 11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours: 66

Guided independent study hours: 154

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Exam = 60%, Coursework = 40%

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 60%
Practical examinations : %
Coursework: 40%

Re-assessment: Exam = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr C Weber
Module teaching staff: Dr Gregory Lee, Dr Caterina Weber, Dr Yvonne Chi, Dr Pamela Hunt, Ms Sophia Cheng
Module coordinator email cw277@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• By the end of this module students will be able to catch the essential meanings of authentic Chinese news announcements (radio and TV) as well as colloquial Chinese used in films and TV dramas, and understand the speech of native speakers on a range of topics
• Students will be able to express their ideas clearly on a range of topics with properly used idiomatic phrase, and narrate a simple story with some detail
• Students will be able to read authentic Chinese texts such as news headlines, short news reports, song lyrics, and short poems, recognise and reproduce 1,700 characters and 4,500 words.
• Students will be able to write an organized and structured piece of of 800+ characters in length in an appropriate written style
• Students will be able to understand the distinction between Standard Spoken Chinese and Written Chinese