Upper School Course Description

  • World Languages
Advanced Topics Chinese Language and Culture
Prerequisites: Requires successful completion of Chinese IV and/or departmental recommendation

Advanced Topics Chinese Language and Culture is a full academic year course for qualified students who have finished Chinese IV or equivalent courses. The goals of this course are to help students reach the second-year college level of proficiency and to succeed across the three communicative modes (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational) on the AP Chinese Language and Culture exam, if they choose to take it. In addition to communication, the course also addresses the other four goals of “Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century”: cultural competence, connections to other school disciplines, comparisons between Chinese language and culture and those of learners, and the use of the language within the broader communities beyond the traditional school environment.

  • Advanced Topics