Bachelor 2024/2025

Chinese Language: Advanced Course

Type: Elective course (HSE University and Kyung Hee University Double Degree Programme in Economics and Politics in Asia)

When: 3 year, 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This intermediate level Chinese Course (Advanced Course) is designed for non-native learners of Chinese who have taken approximately two years of regularly paced college-level Chinese. It aims to further improve the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and to prepare students for the business world in contemporary Chinese societies, including contemporary usage of business Chinese, Chinese business culture and customs, and preparation for working and living in China. Students will learn specialized business and economic expressions and the principles of business correspondence in Chinese. Class meetings will focus on the topic of the week and authentic materials, where we work through vocabulary, sentence structures, text reading and conversations, as well as its application in the real business world environment. The overall goal of this course is to bring students’ Chinese proficiency to a more advanced level and help them build upon their fundamental Chinese language communication skills by using professional and formal business tool such as letters, reports, and oral presentations in structured business environments. At the end of the course students will achieve B2 level according to the CEFR. The complete syllabus will be presented on the KHU's territory.