Minor in Chinese Literature and Linguistics
The Minor in Chinese Literature & Linguistics is aimed at native and near-native speakers of Chinese language and consists of 18 units of required coursework in advanced language, linguistics, oratory, literature, and culture, plus an additional six units of upper division electives in Chinese or a related subject. Students have the opportunity for language immersion through exchange programs in China and Taiwan. Graduates of the program have gone on to work in language teaching, civil service, private business, the technology sector, and translation/interpretation.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Language Skills
1. Listening Comprehension: Student can understand the utterances of native speakers and extract main ideas from recordings of authentic speech, including excerpts from lectures, films, radio, and television broadcasts.
2. Reading Comprehension: Student can understand and summarize main ideas in target language texts intended for general readers, including social correspondences, general purpose essays, short stories, and news writing.
3. Speaking: Student can sustain a conversation on a general topic with a fluent speaker of the target language, narrate and describe on a variety of topics at paragraph length, and respond to spontaneous developments in an exchange.
4. Writing: Student can produce narratives and descriptions, cohesive summaries and routine social correspondences (e.g. business letters, resumes), demonstrating awareness of diction, syntax, and stylistics in the writing process. - Cultural Knowledge
1 Student has an understanding of cultural values, folk beliefs, social conventions and festive celebrations unique to target culture.
2. Student can identify and characterize exemplars of painting, architecture, music, film, and other fine arts in the target culture.
3. Student can identify major historical events and order them chronologically. - Knowledge of Literature
1. Student can identify major literary genres.
2. Student can characterize major literary movements or periods and order them chronologically.
3. Student can identify major historical events and order them chronologically. - Language Structure
1. Student has understanding of sound system (phonetics/phonology) of the target language.
2. Student has understanding of word-formation processes (morphology) in the target language.
3. Student is familiar with syntax of the target language.
4. Student has understanding of the historical development of the target language.
5. Student has understanding of sociolinguistic variation in the target language.
Chinese Literature and Linguistics Minor — 18 units
This minor is aimed at native and near-native speakers of the Chinese language and consists of 15 units of required coursework in advanced language, linguistics, oratory, literature, and culture, plus an additional 3 units of upper-division electives in Chinese or a related subject.
A minimum of 6 upper-division units are required to complete the minor.
All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Upper-Division Core (15 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select One: | 3 | |
| Conversation and Reading | ||
| Speech and Writing | ||
| Select One: | 3 | |
| Advanced Chinese | ||
| Building Chinese Media Literacy | ||
| Media Chinese | ||
| Select One: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Classical Chinese | ||
| Readings in Literary Chinese | ||
| MLL 325 | Linguistics for Foreign Languages | 3 |
| Literature in Translation – select one: | 3 | |
| Topics in Chinese Language, Literature, and Culture in English | ||
| The Poetic Tradition - GWAR | ||
| The Narrative Tradition | ||
| The Revolutionary Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature - GWAR | ||
| Negotiating Chineseness in the Late 20th and 21st Centuries - GWAR | ||
| Chinese Civilization | ||
Electives (3 units)
Additional upper-division CHIN-prefix courses as needed to reach a total of 18 units.
NOTE REGARDING STUDY ABROAD (applies to all Chinese degrees, concentrations, and minors):
Students are encouraged to study abroad through the International Programs of the California State University and the Bilateral Programs of San Francisco State University. For students opting to study abroad, all study abroad units will count as units in residence and can be used for graduation credit, but no more than half of the units required for the major or minor may be taken outside of the home campus. Flagship Language Concentration students, however, may apply all of their Study Abroad units towards the major.