AIC381 - Chinese 3A

Unit details

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Year:

2020 unit information

Important Update:

Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester.

Last updated: 2 June 2020

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s):2
EFTSL value:0.250
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Xuemei Bai
Prerequisite:AIC282 or AIC287 or equivalent or permission from unit chair
Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 300 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

Burwood: 1 x 1-hour class and 1 x 1-hour seminar, 1 x 2-hour seminar and 1 x 1-hour seminar per week

Waurn Ponds: 1 x 1-hour class and 1 x 1-hour seminar, and 1 x 2-hour seminar per week

Note:

This unit is not available to speakers of Chinese as a first language

Content

This unit will further develop the Chinese four-macro skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing achieved in AIC282. On completion of the unit, students should be able, with the assistance of dictionaries, to use Chinese language to understand a range of social and cultural issues and express their own opinions about China and the world in both oral and written forms.

 

These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit

At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

ULO1

Understand a range of social and cultural issues in both oral and written forms, using 1600 words and expressions (1000 Chinese characters) with the assistance of dictionaries; and

ULO2

Express their own opinions about China and the world in both oral and written forms (making a 2-minutes role-play or a 1-minute speech, and writing a 200-characters essay), using 1300 words and expressions (1000 Chinese characters) and 300 major grammatical constructions with the assistance of dictionaries

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Trimester 1:
Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Writing Exercises   20% Information not yet available
Assessment 2 (Individual & Group & Pair) - Seminar Exercises -   20% Information not yet available
Assessment 3 (Individual) - Oral examination   20% Information not yet available
Assessment 4 (Individual) - Examination 2 hours 40% Examination period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIC381 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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