GRADUATE CURRICULUM

700 Seminar in Research Methods (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Problems and methods of research. Bibliography, criticism, and exercises in writing scholarly, critical papers on Chinese studies.

801 The Poetic Tradition (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Paired with CHIN 601. For description, see CHIN 601. Students enrolled in CHIN 801 read materials in the original language, and have additional requirements. Students who have completed CHIN 801 may not take CHIN 601 for credit.

802 The Narrative Tradition (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Paired with CHIN 602. For description, see CHIN 602. Students enrolled in CHIN 802 read materials in the original language, and have additional requirements. Students who have completed CHIN 802 may not take CHIN 602 for credit.

821 Modern Chinese Literature (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Readings by major authors from the May Fourth Movement to the present, as well as selections from secondary scholarship.

822 Classical Chinese Literature (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Classical philosophical, historical, and belletristic writings.

824 Testing and Assessment in Teaching/Learning Chinese as a Second Language (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Survey of research and methods in testing and assessment in Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language. Focus on standards for measuring language competence, professionalism, and language program reviews.

825 Applied Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Investigation of practical issues pertinent to second language acquisition and pedagogy in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.

826 Semantics and Morphology (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program, or CHIN 401 and consent of the instructor. Introduction to linguistic meaning and word formation in Chinese. Chinese semantics, pragmatics, morphology in light of recent findings in cognitive science. Topics include semiotics, categorization, linguistic relativity, semantic primes, morphological processes, image schemas, and metaphor.

827 Language Change and Dialect Variation (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program, or FL 325 and consent of the instructor. Introduction to the mechanisms of language change, including sound change, lexical change and grammaticalization, and their application to the reconstruction of earlier stages of the Chinese language, which in turn will be used to shed light on modern dialect classification.

880 Seminar: Special Topics (3)
Prerequisite: varies according to topic. Topic to be specified in Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary. Limited to fifteen students.

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Morphology and Syntax in Chinese Dialects (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. program or consent of the instructor. An in-depth comparison and contrast of the morphological and syntactic structures across major Chinese dialects including Mandarin, Cantonese, Min, and Hakka.

Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. Program, or CHIN 401 and consent of the instructor. Seminar focusing on general purpose English-Chinese and Chinese-English interpreting, covering aspects of liaison, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting. Course will include training in shadowing, note-taking, and capacity management, leading to build-up of skills in professional consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, with additional guest lectures in legal, medical and business interpreting.

881 Translation (3)
Prerequisite: admission to Chinese M.A. Program, or CHIN 312 and consent of the instructor. For course description, see CHIN 581. Paired with CHIN 581. Students in 881 have additional requirements. Students who have completed CHIN 881 may not take CHIN 581 for credit.

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