Chinese: Concentration in Chinese Literature and Linguistics
Bachelor of Arts, Accelerated Master's, Minor
About this program
The Bachelor of Arts in Chinese: Concentration in Chinese Literature and Linguistics is designed for you who already speak Chinese fluently or near-fluently. The program deepens your skills in advanced language, literature, linguistics, and culture through 18 units of required coursework plus electives. You’ll also have chances to study abroad in China or Taiwan.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Scope
The Concentration in Chinese Literature and Linguistics is aimed at native and near-native speakers of a Chinese language and consists of 18 units of required coursework in advanced language, linguistics, oratory, literature, and culture, plus an additional 12 units of lower and upper-division electives in Chinese or a related subject. GWAR is built into the course design.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Bachelor of Arts in Chinese: Concentration in Chinese Literature & Linguistics:
- Listening Comprehension: Student can understand the utterances of native speakers and extract main ideas from recordings of authentic speech, including excerpts from lectures, films, radio, and television broadcasts.
- Reading Comprehension: Student can understand and summarize main ideas in target language texts intended for general readers, including social correspondences, general purpose essays, short stories, and news writing.
- Speaking: Student can sustain a conversation on a general topic with a fluent speaker of the target language, narrate and describe on a variety of topics at paragraph length, and respond to spontaneous developments in an exchange.
- Writing: Student can produce narratives and descriptions, cohesive summaries and routine social correspondences (e.g. business letters, resumes), demonstrating awareness of diction, syntax, and stylistics in the writing process.
- Student has an understanding of cultural values, folk beliefs, social conventions and festive celebrations unique to target culture.
- Student can identify and characterize exemplars of painting, architecture, music, film, and other fine arts in the target culture.
- Student can identify major historical events and order them chronologically.
- Student can identify major literary genres.
- Student can characterize major literary movements or periods and order them chronologically.
- Student can identify major historical events and order them chronologically.
- Student has understanding of sound system (phonetics/phonology) of the target language.
- Student has understanding of word-formation processes (morphology) in the target language.
- Student is familiar with syntax of the target language.
- Student has understanding of the historical development of the target language.
- Student has understanding of sociolinguistic variation in the target language.
SFSU Accelerated Bachelor's + Master's
The SFSU Accelerated Bachelor's + Master's in Chinese is designed for motivated undergraduate Chinese majors who wish to complete both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees within a five year timeframe. Those accepted into the program enroll in graduate-level classes starting in their senior year, thereby shortening time to graduate degree completion. SFSU offers the only master’s degree in Chinese in the California State University (CSU) system, providing students with qualifications needed for college-level teaching and doctoral research. The master’s curriculum includes core and elective courses in literature, linguistics, pedagogy, research methodology and translation/interpretation.
Minor in Chinese Literature and Linguistics
The Minor in Chinese Literature and Linguistics is designed for you who speak Chinese fluently or near‑fluently. The program sharpens your skills in advanced language, literature, linguistics, oratory, and culture through 18 units of coursework plus upper‑division electives. You also have chances to deepen learning through immersive study‑abroad in China or Taiwan
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