Faculty
IKL

Course Coordinator
tba

The course is offered to 3rd year students at the Asian Studies Programme. Exchange Students must have an advanced level of Chinese, and enrolment is subject to assessment by the ASP course coordinator.

The design of the language course at the 3rd year aims to strengthen the oral and written level of Chinese. Vocabulary and communication strategies are expanded through the study of texts and newspaper articles concerning business related issues. A special focus is on training the students’ ability to express themselves in Chinese, to get a comprehensive understanding of spoken and written Chinese and to give students further knowledge of Chinese business and society.

The core of the course is a specially developed compendium with texts on business in China. The classes are composed of language analysis, discussion exercises on topics taken from the compendium, presentations on a topic from up to date sources, reading Chinese and writing Chinese. Reading comprehension involves studying non-annotated texts of an academic and polemic nature, fiction as well as newspaper articles. Approximately half of the texts are extensively read and summarised either orally or in written form in English or Chinese. The rest of the literature is read intensively with emphasis on improving comprehension and translating skills.

Lectures, group work, student presentations etc.

Integration

The chosen texts and topics exhibit close relationship to common course material in other Asian Studies Programme courses.

The Comprehensive Examination of Business Chinese consists of an oral examination and a written examination.

At the oral examination the following criteria are taken into account: 1) The oral summary must be clear, well structured and reflect both the content and intention of the text, and 2) the discussion in Japanese must be smooth and without errors that cause distraction. Students must also demonstrate an ability to express themselves orally and to use terms and expressions from the texts handed out.

At the written examination students must demonstrate an ability to understand the content of a previously unread text, including its communicative intention and cultural context, to convey the content in a summary that, in a clear, well structured way, reflects both the intention and content of the text, and to write without serious grammatical mistakes and proper usage.

A compendium of Business Chinese texts.