CHNS 101: Chinese Level I

0 or 4 credits

Fall 2025 Distance Learning Laboratory Lecture Credit By ExaminationDepartmental CreditJEDILower DivisionHumanities
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Fall 2025
last updated 4/24/2025

A comprehensive course in elementary Mandarin, designed to develop basic proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Systematic coverage of syntactical patterns. After oral foundation work, 20 characters are introduced each lesson in unsimplified and simplified forms.

Learning Outcomes

1Understand sentence-length utterances which consist of recombinations of learned elements in a limited number of content areas, particularly if strongly supported by the situational context.

2Make short statement and ask simple questions, primarily by relying on memorized utterances but occasionally by expanding these through simple recommendations of those elements.

3Identify a limited number of character components and high-frequency characters in areas of immediate need.

4Read for instructional and directional purposes, standardized messages, such as some prices in stores, time/date on schedules, etc.

5Write simple fixed expressions and limited memorized material and some recombination thereof.

Course CHNS 101 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.

Prerequisites

Between a 0 and 1 in CHNS

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3.6

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Yue Li(Fall 2021)
3.9
Han Hao(Fall 2019)
3.8
Shiy...(Fall 2019)
3.8
Yi-F...(Summer 2023)
3.7
Nan ...(Fall 2019)
3.7
Siya...(Summer 2021)
3.6
Wei ...(Fall 2019)
3.6
Chie...(Fall 2021)
3.6
Yiyi...(Fall 2024)

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Liji...(Summer 2025)

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