| Course Title: Learning Chinese Through Film |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: This course advances students' Chinese reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by studying contemporary Chinese films. The selected movies are mostly lighthearted comedies on youth, love, and aspirations, with discussions on relationships, immigration, elder care, education, and social justice. The class will watch the films and use the synopses and selected dialogues from the scripts as reading materials to facilitate linguistic and cultural learning. Students will also watch several prize winners/nominees by internationally acclaimed Chinese directors such as Yimou Zhang, Zhangke Jia, Kar-wai Wong, Xiaogang Feng, and Kaige Chen in the "Chinese Movie Night" activity. The class will be conducted mainly in Chinese. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lisha Xu | lxu@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 11:30AM - 12:45PM | CIRU - Ciruti | 127 | Weekly |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Fourth Hour of Class | Friday | 11:30AM - 12:20PM | CIRU - Ciruti | 127 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ASIAN-311 or equivalent. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| EASIA0001 | EASIA: East Asian Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the East Asian Studies major. |
| CHNS-CRSE | ||
| ASIAN0001 | ASIAN: Asian Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 10 | Available: 8 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Lens on China Author: Wang, Jing Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9789888528219 Publisher: Hong Kong University Press |
Required | 46.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Copies are on order at Amazon |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: You can phase the paperback online. The websites are: https://www.amazon.com/Lens-China-Intermediate-Advanced-Readin gs/dp/9888528211/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lens+on+china&qid=162577 8794&sr=8-1 |