Section Info: ASIAN-311-01

Course Title: Third Year Chinese II
Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026
Term: Spring Semester 2026
Description: This course continues ASIAN-310, Third Year Chinese I, in helping students build linguistic and communicative competence in Mandarin Chinese through reading, discussing, and writing about authentic texts. Newspapers, essays, and short stories will be the teaching materials for the course. An interactive approach will be incorporated into the curriculum to improve students' conversational skills. The class will be conducted mostly in Chinese, and class hours will be supplemented by individual work in the Language Resource Center.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language
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    
01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026   Lecture   Monday and Wednesday   01:45PM - 03:00PM   CIRU - Ciruti   111   Weekly
01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026   Fourth Hour of Class   Friday   01:45PM - 02:35PM   CIRU - Ciruti   111   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: ASIAN-310 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: 8     Available: 10     Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.