Course Arrangement
1. Duration: Choice of 4-week, 6-week or 8-week programs
2. Class Mode: Online platform teaching [Live] + Exclusive course materials + Experienced teaching assistants (platform account and detailed download/use tutorials will be provided).
3. Daily Schedule:8:30–9: 00, Monday to Friday: Small group discussion under the leadership of course teaching assistants
9:00–11:00, Monday to Friday: Online course main curriculum taught by lead teacher14:00–15:00, Tuesday and Thursday: course assistants provide online tutoring
Friday afternoons: Lectures in English.
(Teachers may adjust the timing of the classes to accommodate the time zone of the students’location. In order to ensure that students in different time zones are able to keep up with the learning progress, during the program the real-time online classes allow repeated review until 48 hours after the end of the class.)
Introduction to the Courses
1. Comprehensive Chinese
· Focus on improving and enhancing students’reading, writing skills and oral communication proficiency.
· Learn common vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns of the Chinese language to enhance students’comprehensive skills and communicative ability in Chinese.
Advanced Class: For those who have a vocabulary of more than 2500 Chinese words. The course aims to enable students to discuss and communicate their ideas on general social topics.
Intermediate Class: For those who have a vocabulary of more than 1200 Chinese words. The course aims to allow students to use Chinese in lives, studies and work.
Elementary Class: For those who have a vocabulary of more than 200 Chinese words. The class mainly teaches basic grammar and daily expressions.
Basic Class: Mainly for students with zero Chinese ability, and teaches students Pinyin, common Chinese characters and simple Chinese words and sentences.
2. Advanced-level Business Chinese
Textbooks contain company profile, banking business, corporate investment, recruitment, benefits package and corporate training. Besides, the students will also be taught with some vocabularies, sentences and topics on business and work scenarios as a supplement to their course studies.
· These are special courses that are tailored for the business and workplace fields.
· Course content includes company introduction, corporate team training, corporate investment promotion, banking business, and practical words and topics in the workplace
3. HSK Training Course
HSK is an international standardized exam that tests and rates Chinese language proficiency. The HSK course is a thematic course that is tailored towards HSK intermediate and advanced exam preparation. There are 3 levels in this course, namely:
· HSK (Level 4) Course
· HSK (Level 5) Course
· HSK (Level 6) Course
(The textbooks are compiled by the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University.)
Course requirements
The Chinese online summer classes are taught in small classes, each with about 15 students. Classes of the same level with fewer than 8 students will be cancelled, in which case, students must choose other courses.
Textbooks: (Teachers will assign textbooks after students’ entrance according to the program’s duration and students’ability)
1.Meeting China Series
The Meeting China Series includes 8 volumes, with around 12 lessons per volume, which is best suited for short term (4 weeks-6 weeks) Chinese training. The Meeting China Series’general textbooks and oral textbooks are divided into baisc level, elementary level, intermediate level, and advanced level. The general textbooks and the oral textbooks of the same level are complementary to each other in words, expressions, grammar, and topics. The textbook is mainly composed of different dialogues. It selects many common scenarios and topics from students’ daily lives, emphasizing the practical employment of Chinese and satisfying students’ needs of communicating in Chinese.
2.Boya Chinese Series
The Boya Chinese Series includes 9 volumes and are divided into elementary level, pre-intermediate level, intermediate level, and advanced level, named respectively as “The starting book” （Ⅰ, Ⅱ）, “The accelerating book” （Ⅰ, Ⅱ）, “The sprinting book” （Ⅰ, Ⅱ） and “The soaring book” （Ⅰ, Ⅱ）.
The textbooks for different levels have distinctive characteristics and objectives. “The starting book” focuses on basic knowledge of Chinese language. “The accelerating book” focuses on training students’ ability to properly employ Chinese under different circumstances. “The sprinting book” aims to improve students’ ability to employ special sentence patterns, common expressions, and to help them integrate their scattered expressions. “The soaring book” shows students the richness and variety of Chinese discourse. The new words involved in the four stages are respectively around 1000, 3000, 5000, and 10000.
3.Oral Chinese Series (Peking University version)
The Oral Chinese Series includes 9 volumes and are comprised of Primary Oral Chinese (Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and the advanced book), Intermediate Oral Chinese (Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and the advanced book) and Advanced Oral Chinese (Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and the advanced book). The 9 volumes develop students’ ability to communicate with others in Chinese with careful selection of materials. The Primary Oral Chinese mainly teaches students common sentence patterns, simple dialogues, and integrated expressions in oral Chinese. In the Intermediate Oral Chinese, main characters with distinctive personalities and speech patterns run throughout the entire book, presenting different aspects of Chinese society. The Advanced Oral Chinese focuses on a typical Chinese family, describing their stories, discussing hot issues, and showing various aspects of Chinese family and society.
Attendance requirements
1. Students should not come late to, leave early from or be absent from online classes.
2. Students should ask for leave when unable to attend classes for any reason.
3. If a student comes late or leaves early 3 times will be considered as one incident of absenteeism, which will lead to a loss in grade by 1 point for the exam, except for those who have asked for sick leave and have presented a doctor’s note. Those who ask for a sick leave without a doctor’s note will be considered as taking a personal leave. A personal leave (i.e., being absent for 2 class hours), will result in a loss in grade by 0.5 point for the exam.
4. In principle, those who have accumulated absences totaling one fourth or more of the total number of class hours will be unable to obtain a grade for the course.
5. Students who are unable to attend online classes on time due to time zone differences will not be considered absent if they complete their study within 48 hours after the end of the class.
Examination and Grade Components
1. The overall course grade will be based upon 3 components: score on the course completion exam, scores on regular assignments and tests, and attendance.
2. Students will be offered an official transcript and a course completion certificate as a Short Overseas Exchange Program of Peking University.