The Chinese program offers sixteen semester credit hours in Chinese language at the 100, 200, and 300 levels. In the spring semester every year, a contemporary Chinese culture course is also available.

Courses offered:

Please see the official listings in the Undergraduate Catalog.

CHIN 101, 102, 201, and 202 are BG Perspectives international perspectives courses.
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In the language courses, the Common Speech (also known as Mandarin) and simplified characters (as opposed to full characters) are taught. Students will be comprehensively trained, so that they can establish a solid foundation for further acquisition of both spoken and written Chinese language skills.

The culture course features the reading of contemporary Chinese writers, discussions, video tapes and a survey of major political and economic events since 1949.