MLL 262 - Intermediate Mandarin Chinese II: Chinese American Sociocultural Issues

The second semester of intermediate Mandarin Chinese. Students expand grammar and vocabulary, strengthen speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, and work with authentic materials such as U.S. Census data and surveys in social and cultural contexts.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: MLL 261.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 

1. Use intermediate grammar and vocabulary to hold extended conversations and write multi-paragraph texts on everyday, cultural, and social topics.
2. Read and interpret authentic materials such as news articles, U.S. Census data, and public surveys in Mandarin to explain how social, political, and economic systems intersect.
3. Compare Mandarin and English versions of forms, questionnaires, or surveys to identify differences in meaning, translation, and cultural perspective.
4. Discuss in Mandarin how Chinese-speaking communities, past and present, produce, resist, and adapt to social, political, and economic change.
5. Analyze short texts, media, and case studies in Mandarin to investigate historical and contemporary issues from a social science perspective.
6. Engage in interviews, role plays, or community-based activities to explore how language reflects cultural values, identities, and social systems.
7. Reflect in Mandarin and English on how learning Mandarin provides insights into the connections between language, institutions, and lived experiences in Chinese-speaking societies.

1. specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
2. explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
3. discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
4. explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.