CHIN-410 Newspaper and Media Chinese (3)

Designed for students who have taken at least three years of college Chinese or equivalent, this course introduces the styles and conventions of Chinese newspaper language. The focus is on vocabulary expansion, forms and structures of formal Chinese writing that differ from spoken Chinese, and tactics and skills for fast reading. Through reading and discussing Chinese newspapers of different types and from different Chinese-speaking regions, students examine newspapers as sites of contending ideologies and values. Prerequisite: CHIN-312 and CHIN-313.