(BA) (4-year-programme) - The University of Hong Kong

32exposed to Chinese society and culture through a greater variety of topical discussions and field trip,workshop and guest lectures. The course will teach 400 new characters and phrases on top of about1800 characters accumulated in previous levels. Students are required to write compositions of 800 ormore characters.Prerequisite: CHIN9506 Chinese as a foreign language VI or equivalentAssessment: 100% coursework.CHIN9508.Chinese as a foreign language VIII (6 credits)This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have attained equivalent competence to theChinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Level 5. This is an extensive reading course, which aims atenhancing students’ competence in accurately and fluently expressing ideas and accelerating readingspeed. Students will be exposed to Chinese society and culture through a greater variety of selectedreading materials from famous Chinese modern writers, magazines, short stories and novels. Thecourse will guide them to distinguish colloquial and formal Chinese and learn idioms and images. Inaddition, students will write summaries of each of their readings, to enhance comprehension andstrengthen writing ability. This course will prepare for newspaper reading and fundamentals ofclassical Chinese.Prerequisite: CHIN9507 Chinese as a foreign language VII or equivalentAssessment: 100% coursework.ASSESSMENTEach course will be examined by a written paper of not more than 2-hour duration except thosecourses which are assessed by 100% coursework.