Course syllabus
Welcome to "Chinese Character II" at Dalarna University
Registration
You need to register to the course via Ladok before the class starts. If you are a new student at Högskolan Dalarna, your log-in information will be sent to you at the latest in the week before the course begins. You can also create your student ID through a new website for creating university student account: id.du.se
Are you ready to start learning with us?
This is a comprehensive language course and you are going to learn the Chinese characters in this course.
Since it is a web-based course, all the lectures and examinations are carried out in our virtual classroom, Zoom. Our daily communications are performed in a web-based platform, Canvas. In other words, you don't need to attend any campus classes or activities physically at Dalarna University.
If you are new to distance education, or you've never had experience with virtual (online) classrooms, please read the following information carefully before the course starts.
Zoom, our virtual classroom:
Learning mode and attendance
This course emphasizes on continuous assessments and students have to attend all the seminars in order to pass one stage of study to the next. Meanwhile, you will have to hand in assignments each week.
Contact information
Finally, please feel free to contact the instructor for any questions regarding this course!
Instructors: Lung Lung Hu (llh@du.se)
For questions regarding administration or registration, please contact support@du.se
Textbook
There is no textbook of this course. We have our own lecture notes and course materials of every week. The reference books in the literature list are not compulsory, you can choose to purchase them or not.
Course schedule
There are two parrelle sessions, and you only attend one:
Morning session 10:00-11:30
Evening session 18:00-19:30
Please choose one and sign it up as your group in discussions
ZOOM Room link: https://du-se.zoom.us/j/999612378
The first lecture of KI1045 will be held on Wednesday, Sept 4 (week 36).
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Week |
Date |
Room |
Content |
Assignment |
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01 |
W. 36 |
Sept 4 |
ZOOM |
Information and preparation |
Character exercise 1 / Handwriting assignment 1 |
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Part one: Nature world & Formation of Chinese characters |
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02 |
W. 37 |
11 |
ZOOM |
The sun, moon, mountains and rivers / Pictography and indicative characters |
Written assignment 1 |
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03 |
W. 38 |
18 |
ZOOM |
Flowers, trees, birds and animals / Associative and picto-phonetic characters |
Character exercise 2 / Handwriting assignment 2 |
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04 |
W. 40 |
Oct 2 |
ZOOM |
Nature’s gifts / phonetic loan and derivative characters |
Written assignment 2 |
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Part two: Human beings & Chinese etymology |
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05 |
W. 41 |
9 |
ZOOM |
Body characters / polyphonic characters |
Character exercise 3 / Handwriting assignment 3 |
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06 |
W. 42 |
16 |
ZOOM |
Five sense organ / homonyms |
Written assignment 3 |
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07 |
W. 43 |
23 |
ZOOM |
Words and works / form-like characters |
Character exercise 4 / Handwriting assignment 4 |
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08 |
W. 45 |
Nov 6 |
ZOOM |
Name words / Synonyms |
Written assignment 4 |
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Part three: Social life & Chinese character structure |
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09 |
W. 46 |
13 |
ZOOM |
Clothes and clothing / Eclipsis characters |
Character exercise 5 / Handwriting assignment 5 |
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10 |
W. 47 |
20 |
ZOOM |
Loading words / traditional and simplified characters |
Written assignment 5 |
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11 |
W. 49 |
Dec 4 |
ZOOM |
Travel words / Chinese character culture 1 |
Character exercise 6 / Handwriting assignment 6 |
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12 |
W. 50 |
11 |
ZOOM |
Holiday words / Chinese character culture 2 |
Written assignment 6 Character exercise 7 (due Jan 3) |
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Exam |
W. 2 |
Jan 8 |
ZOOM |
Final Examination |
Morning 10-12 / Evening 18-20 |
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For course syllabus, please see Syllabus - Dalarna University (du.se)
HT24 KI1045 Course Handbook.pdf
Course summary:
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