| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: | 24 [equivalent to 48 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 480 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWOA 30%, EX 35%, EXIC 35% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Regular in-class tests (EXIC 35%)
- 2 Written exams (EX 35%)
- Listening and speaking exam (CWOA 30%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- understand the main points of clear, standard speech on practical and social topics related to school, home, and leisure activities and personal interest;
- intervene in a conversation on activities related to school, home, and leisure activities; express, in fairly high frequency, everyday language, an opinion or ambition and to give short explanations for these;
- understand articles on practical and social topics related to school, home, and leisure activities and, to a lesser degree, those related to events of work, current affairs and personal interest;
- write routine informal correspondence; narrate and describe in major time frames and in connected discourse of paragraph, primarily through daily-used vocabulary, with good control of the most frequently used structures.
- Have a strong awareness of Chinese culture and history, customs and social etiquette, value systems and identities, and some current affairs.
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| Aims: | - develop language learners' integrated skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking at the Intermediate-High level, with a special focus on vocabulary, Chinese characters learning, passage reading and practical writing in daily and business life.
- prepare learners to use Mandarin with ease in everyday situations and professional environments and enrich their understanding of the society and culture of contemporary China.
- further consolidate learner's existing linguistic and cultural knowledge and consolidate their intercultural competence in order to prepare them for social and professional interaction in a globalized world..
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| Skills: | - Precision and creativity in the use of written and spoken language;
- Effective communication in the target language;
- Independent learning strategies;
- Employability and transferable skills.
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| Content: | - Written Language: translation in and out of English; analysis of contemporary literary, political, social texts; essay writing.
- Spoken Language: group discussion, individual presentations on a wide range of topics related to school, work, home, leisure activities and personal interest.
- Laboratory: computer assisted learning.
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| Course availability: |
PL31028 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following courses:
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AYB48 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio Mandarin) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB35 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages (French and ab initio Mandarin) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB39 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages (German and ab initio Mandarin) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB42 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages (Spanish and ab initio Mandarin) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
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