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COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College

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Education and Language Acquisition Department<br />

language laboratory.<br />

Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101<br />

Note: Student must successfully complete ELV102 before credit<br />

toward graduation is granted for ELV101 Elementary Bengali 1.<br />

ELV102 Elementary Bengali 2<br />

3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

This course is a continuation of ELV101. Listening, speaking,<br />

reading and writing skills will be further developed within a sociolinguistic<br />

context of Bengali-speaking peoples through work in<br />

the classroom and the language laboratory. All writing will be<br />

done using Bengali script.<br />

Prerequisite: ELV101 or Exemption Exam<br />

ELV103, Intermediate Bengali<br />

3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

This course is designed to further develop functional language<br />

proficiency and increase the ability to communicate accurately in<br />

Bengali within a socio-cultural context. The four communicative<br />

skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are emphasized<br />

with particular attention paid to sentence and paragraph structure,<br />

grammatical features, and oral and written fluency. The Bengali<br />

writing system will be reinforced. Taught in Bengali.<br />

Prerequisite: ELV102 or Exemption Exam<br />

ELV105 Bengali for Heritage Students<br />

3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

This course is designed to enable heritage speakers of Bengali to<br />

enhance their reading and writing competence through a review<br />

of grammar and usage, basic composition strategies and analysis of<br />

primary material in the language. This course is taught in Bengali.<br />

Prerequisite: Exemption Exam<br />

Pre- or Corequisite: CSE099, ENG098, ESL097<br />

ELV201 Modern Bengali Literature<br />

3 credits; 3 hours<br />

This course will familiarize students with modern Bengali literature<br />

through selected readings from various genres. Representative<br />

authors from West Bengal and Bangladesh will be studied.<br />

This course is taught in Bengali.<br />

Prerequisite: Exemption Exam<br />

Chinese<br />

ELC101 Modern Chinese I<br />

3 credits: 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

The basic course in Modern Chinese (Mandarin) is designed to<br />

develop primary listening and speaking skills through work in the<br />

classroom and language laboratory. Students will learn the pronunciation,<br />

grammar and vocabulary of Chinese in the context of<br />

important aspects of the culture affecting the communication<br />

process. Students will be introduced to the romanized writing<br />

system (pinyin).<br />

Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101<br />

Note: Student must successfully complete ELC102 before credit<br />

toward graduation is granted for ELC101 Modern Chinese 1.<br />

ELC102 Modern Chinese II<br />

3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

This is a continuation of ELC101. Listening and speaking skills<br />

will be further developed through work in the classroom and the<br />

language lab. Students will learn more about Chinese pronunciation,<br />

grammar and vocabulary in selected cultural contexts. The<br />

basic Chinese writing system will be introduced.<br />

Prerequisite: ELC101<br />

ELC103 Intermediate Chinese<br />

3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

This course is the third in a sequence. The purpose of the course is<br />

to help students build functional language proficiency and increase<br />

their ability to communicate in Mandarin Chinese with confidence<br />

and ease. The course continues to focus on the four basic skills of<br />

listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a strong emphasis<br />

on sentence structure, grammatical features, oral and written<br />

translation fluency and vocabulary building.<br />

Prerequisite: Exemption Exam<br />

ELC105 Modern Chinese for Heritage Students<br />

3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />

This course is designed for Chinese heritage students who wish to<br />

enhance their communicative skills.<br />

Prerequisite: Exemption Exam<br />

ELC150 Skills Maintenance in Modern Language<br />

1 credit; 2 lab hours<br />

This laboratory course is designed to maintain foreign language<br />

skills during an interruption in the study sequence. Individual<br />

instruction is directly related to a student’s particular field of<br />

interest. Hours are individually arranged.<br />

Prerequisite: ELC101<br />

ELC201 Modern Chinese Literature<br />

3 credits, 3 hours<br />

This course introduces students to modern Chinese literature<br />

and culture. Readings will be taken from various genres of literature,<br />

with an emphasis on modern Chinese literary expression.<br />

The course aims at strengthening the student’s ability to read and<br />

discuss literature in Chinese. Special attention will be paid to the<br />

Chinese literary tradition and its relationship to Western<br />

literature.<br />

Prerequisite: Placement Exam<br />

ELC202 Contemporary Chinese Literature<br />

3 credits, 3 hours<br />

This course is an introduction to contemporary Chinese literature.<br />

It aims at familiarizing students with the literature written in Chinese<br />

from 1949 to the present, and the concomitant transformation<br />

of Chinese socio-cultural milieu since the creation of the<br />

People’s Republic of China. This course is taught in Chinese.<br />

Prerequisite: Placement Exam<br />

ELC203 Classic Chinese Literature<br />

3 credits, 3 hours<br />

This course is an introduction to classical Chinese literature. It<br />

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