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Course Listing for CHINESE - Fall 2025 (ALL: 09/02/2025 - 12/17/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2820 CHIN-101-01 Intens Elem Chinese I 1.50 LEC Lin,Jen MWF: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Designed for students who want to acquire a basic command of Chinese language and culture. Through classroom practice and after-class activities, students will develop basic skills in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Chinese. Heritage learners and students with prior Chinese language study must obtain the permission of the instructor to enroll.
2821 CHIN-201-01 Intermediate Chinese I 1.00 LEC Lin,Jen MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Chinese 102 or equivalent.
  This course emphasizes the continued development of skill in spoken and written Mandarin. Students will read more advanced texts, practice conversation, and be introduced to additional characters. In order to secure maximum proficiency, students should plan to take both 201 and 202 in sequence. Three hours of class work.(Also listed the Asian Studies concentration of the International Studies Program.)
2230 CHIN-237-01 20th Cent Chinese Literature 1.00 LEC Shen,Yipeng MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB  
  Enrollment limited to 24 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: INTS-237-01
  This course is a survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature and films. It focuses on the literature, cinema, and essays of three periods in the Chinese 20th century: 1918 ~ 1949; 1949 ~ 1976; since 1976. We read works of Chinese writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Zhang Ailing, Mao Dun, ShenCongwen, Yu Hua, Su Tong, etc., and watch selected films of significant cultural and historical meanings. Students are introduced to various essential issues of twentieth-century Chinese cultural modernity and are encouraged to explore in the Chinese context the key tensions between tradition and modernity, native and foreign, and nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
2206 CHIN-301-01 Advanced Chinese I 1.00 LEC Shen,Yipeng MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Further development of skill in written and spoken Mandarin, with increasing emphasis on longer texts, additional characters, and extensive discussion. In order to secure maximum proficiency, students should plan to take both 301 and 302 in sequence. (Also listed under the Asian Studies concentration of the International Studies Program.)
3401 CHIN-329-01  Chinese Business Culture 1.00 SEM Shen,Yipeng TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 14 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: INTS-329-01
  This course teaches the Chinese culture of innovation and entrepreneurship using cases studies of China’s high-tech industries such as solar energy, EV, and drones, and the Chinese American restaurant business in Connecticut. In addition to reading book chapters from The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism (Keyu Jin, 2023) and Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy (Kishore Mahbubani, 2022), this course analyzes media and mass construction of new discourses of innovation and entrepreneurship as part of the Chinese national characters, and conducts industry visits and experiential colloquia in Connecticut.
1454 CHIN-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
1455 CHIN-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)