This module aims to develop and consolidate students' advanced Chinese language knowledge and skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. It also aims to allow students to develop advanced mediation skills both from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English. The focus is on developing advanced transferable skills around language and communication that can be used in society and will increase students' employability.
The module content focuses on current issues in the Chinese-speaking region, including social, political and environmental, and places them in a global context. Students will be encouraged to develop their critical reading and thinking skills, as well as advanced cross-linguistic and cross-cultural mediation skills, through reading comprehension, summarisation, discussion and academic writing in Chinese.
The syllabus content will vary from year to year, depending on which national and global issues are currently topical.
