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Fall 2025 Distance Learning Laboratory Lecture Credit By ExaminationLower DivisionDepartmental CreditJEDIHumanities
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 Outcomes1Understand 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.
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