SPECIAL NOTE: This unit is NOT available to students with any knowledge of Chinese. Available as an elective to students of other courses; equivalent units in Japanese (HMA120) and Indonesian (HMA122) are taught on a rotational basis.
Key Semester Dates
Final WW Date*
* The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (see Withdrawal dates explained for more information).
Provides basic linguistic skills in Chinese language, and a basic knowledge of Chinese culture.
The unit provides students with basic oral/aural communicative skills in Chinese and some familiarity with written forms of the language. At the same time students are introduced to basic norms and values of Chinese social interaction, and to key issues in Chinese culture, politics and society.
By the completion of the unit, students should be able to conduct conversations in various everyday situations in a communicative way, to interact in varying contexts expressing appropriate degrees of politeness, and be capable of drawing comparisons with the expression of values through language in their own cultures. Through this unit they will also have gained skills which can be used to look at examples of basic communication in relation to their own field of interest -- eg tourism, business, computing etc.
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle, P Beauty Point. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Y Hong Kong.