Undergraduate Course: Introductory Chinese Language (ASST07003)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course is suitable for complete beginners and aims to equip students with a very basic grounding in written and spoken Chinese.This course is not suitable for students with previous knowledge of Chinese. This course is not available to native or near-native speakers of Chinese. If in doubt, contact the Course Organiser. This course runs in both semester 1 and semester 2. On successful completion of this course students will have the option of taking Introductory Chinese Language 2 (ASST07006 in Semester 2), which follows on from Introductory Chinese Language.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	No prior knowledge of Chinese is required. This course is not suitable for students with previous knowledge of Chinese. This course is not available to native or near-native speakers of Chinese.

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	No prior knowledge of Chinese is required. This course is not suitable for students with previous knowledge of Chinese. This course is not available to native or near-native speakers of Chinese.
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 60
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 148 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 20 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One class exam (2 hours) in Week 6, 30%; One oral exam (5 minutes) in Revision Week , 20%; One degree exam (2 hours), 50%
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Introductory Chinese Language (ASST07003)		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (April/May Sem 1 resits only)	Introductory Chinese Language		2:00

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 30
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 148 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One class exam (2 hours) in Week 6, 30%; One oral exam (5 minutes) in Revision Week , 20%; One degree exam (2 hours), 50%
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Introductory Chinese Language		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Introductory Chinese Language		2:00

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: be familiar with the basic principles of the speaking and writing systems of the Chinese language. have a good command of about 300 Chinese characters and some basic grammar and sentence structures that are used to express events in the present. have a basic understanding of China and its customs and ways of life.

Reading List
None

Additional Information
Course URL	http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/open-languages
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Special Arrangements	This course is open to all students as a credit bearing course, or over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. DELC students may only take this course if it is over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. Visiting Students may only take this course for credits. Please note that auditing this course is not allowed. You must be enrolled as CE (Class and Assessment including centrally arranged exam).
Additional Class Delivery Information	Students must attend both classes.
Keywords	OLICHIN1SEM1&2