26 courses with the subject CHIN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This introduction to modern standard Chinese emphasizes understanding and speaking, with practice in reading and writing approximately 300 characters in either simplified or traditional forms. It covers basic structural patterns and vocabulary needed for ordinary conversation as well as future development.
This introduction to modern standard Chinese emphasizes understanding and speaking, with practice in reading and writing approximately 300 characters in either simplified or traditional forms. It covers basic structural patterns and vocabulary needed for ordinary conversation as well as future development. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Elementary-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Offers continued training in Modern Standard Chinese, with emphasis on reading and writing skills. Grammar review is combined with introduction to variations in speech and writing. Recitation and conversation sessions, role-play, and skits reinforce listening and speaking ability. By the end of the year, students may expect to communicate in both speech and writing on everyday topics. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Offers continued training in Modern Standard Chinese, with emphasis on reading and writing skills. Grammar review is combined with introduction to variations in speech and writing. Recitation and conversation sessions, role-play, and skits reinforce listening and speaking ability. By the end of the year, students may expect to communicate in both speech and writing on everyday topics. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Offers an introduction to representative works of Chinese literature in English translation, as well as works of Chinese film with English subtitles. Specific focus and selections vary from year to year. Readings can include novels, short stories, poetry, and drama from the traditional and modern periods. Films, whether live- action, animated, or documentary, illuminate their historical periods and cultural contexts. No knowledge of Chinese is expected. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation Core Component: None
Ever since antiquity, China and the West, specifically Europe, have been coming into contact with each other. The many meetings of the two sides took place either through actual encounters, or through cultural imagination that they had of each other or, as it was often the case, through both at the same time. That is, the two parts of the world in history not only have collided and exchanged for commercial, military, political and ideological purposes, but also have actively and persistently developed numerous perceptions and misperceptions of each other. Based mainly on primary texts evidencing China-West exchanges in history, students examine the impact and influence that the two had on each other, and at the same time exposes some of the understanding/images of the other formed and reformed during the many conflicts and coordination between China and the West. It is hoped that the reading and discussion in and out of class on these texts that include historical records, travelogues, religious writings, philosophical works, literature, political documents and other works will facilitate students' development of a new understanding of the relationship between China and the West. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None
Explores the visual culture of China by asking: How do we move through pictures, and how do pictures move us? To answer these questions, the course examines in depth a series of representative works, from traditional Chinese scroll painting to China's modern visual culture of image and word, including Jazz Age popular magazines, classic Shanghai film, woodcut prints, propaganda posters, and a range of comics genres, from pantomime to graphic novel. Students acquire skills in media interpretation while learning the cultural history of China. Taught in English. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Brings students into direct and interactive contact with the sites, works, and even some of the individual artists they have studied during the spring semester course, CHIN 266. Students travel in turn to Beijing, Shanghai, and Huangshan, with each location offering specific insights into the history and current practice of China's modern and contemporary visual culture. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Study group students complete one language course taught by CET Shanghai staff. Placement determined by CET language-teaching staff. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Intermediate-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Adopting interdisciplinary materials ranging from medicine, philosophy, science, engineering, history, art, and architecture, students look at Chinese understandings of health in relation to the Chinese world outlook and in comparison with the western counterpart. There are no prerequisites. Students with native knowledge of Chinese language are also encouraged to enroll. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
By focusing on film and media, coursework increases students' fluency in all aspects of Chinese language. Students improve listening and speaking skills through viewing and discussion of materials that can range from film and television shows to online videos and podcasts; they improve reading, writing, and narration skills through work with written scripts. Through discussion and essay assignments, they learn to express personal responses, thoughts, and feelings.
Through readings on developments in contemporary Chinese society, this course introduces students to the vocabulary and sentence structures specific to written Chinese. Exercises accompanying the readings and essay assignments help develop writing skills. The topics presented in the essays, such as women's issues, economics, family, and trends in popular culture, provide rich material for class discussion and improve the students' speaking, listening, and narration skills. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Study group students complete one language course taught by CET Shanghai staff. Placement determined by CET language-teaching staff. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Advanced-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Introduces the styles and conventions of Chinese newspaper language. Emphasis is on vocabulary expansion, forms, and structures that differ from everyday spoken Chinese, and tactics and skills for rapid reading. Aural-oral skills are reinforced through classroom discussions and supplementary materials. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Designed to expand and consolidate students' aural and oral mastery of advanced vocabulary and grammatical patterns through the study of modern Chinese writers and their work. All readings are original works of literature (poetry, short fiction, familiar prose) written for Chinese readers. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Using interdisciplinary materials in Chinese, in both print and other media, students explore Chinese understandings of the world and how humans relate to it and to one another. Both traditional and contemporary perspectives are explored. Class is conducted mostly in Chinese.
Focuses on topics central to social, economic, and political transitions in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with a special emphasis on Shanghai. It adopts a culturally immersive, interdisciplinary approach to comprehending changing Chinese lifestyles from perspectives that may include consumer culture, gender, workplace relations, ethnic diversity, and the environment. The course typically includes a cultural immersion internship and is enriched by readings, video viewings, guest lectures, and discussion. The goal is to arrive at an understanding of contemporary issues in China through both analysis and experience. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Explores many of the topics introduced in its companion course, CHIN 481. Materials from literature, film, art, music, performance, and popular culture allow glimpses of the personal experience of people living through the changes and continuities discussed in CHIN 481, with an emphasis on cultural heritage and creative renovation of tradition. Guest lectures, readings, and discussion are enriched by culturally immersive field trips, visits to museums and temples, attendance at performances, and face-to-face meetings with scholars, artists, performers, and others. The course challenges students to develop sensitivity and imagination as well as understanding. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty.
Study group students complete one language course taught by CET Shangh by CET language-teaching staff. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Students pursuing honors research enroll in this course. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Source: Colgate University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
