Chinese Courses

LANG1421 aims to enhance students’ abilities to use Chinese effectively in the context of digital media for social, professional, and academic purposes. It will also help raise students’ awareness of the new linguistic demands of living and working in the contemporary Chinese community. 

• Integration of digital literacy and Chinese communication for digital natives 

• Digital communication context-oriented language learning 

• Training for personalized and creative Chinese speaking and writing 

• Assessment 1 (differentiated): A short talk in a video, a blog, OR a blog with an embedded video commentary 

• Assessment 2: A group webcast AND an individual social media post for an original public welfare project 

• Students who have a background in Chinese and a strong interest in the use of Chinese in digital media 

• Exclusions: LANG 1411-1415, LANG 1120-1127 (prior to 2022-23) 

Course outcomes 

• Critically analyze information obtained from worldwide sources of Chinese digital media. 

• Make full use of sophisticated skills to speak in Putonghua and write in Standard Chinese to communicate ideas on digital media platforms 

Student testimonials 

• 「在 13 個星期的課業中我經歷了從應用數字工具到探索溝通的本質的轉變。通過課業，我對中文寫作產生了更濃厚的興趣，而且我體驗和學到了以觀衆為本位的内容設計思路，得到了在數字工具與内容製作中尋找平衡點的體悟。」 

• 「身為視頻剪輯的『小白』，我從抗拒到練習，逐漸扭轉了過去只關注文字內容的思維方式。在學習了同學們評估一的作品之後，我意識到多模態的材料不僅可以吸引新媒體時代受眾的閱讀興趣，還可以在適當的位置佐證或突出觀點。於是在評估二B的寫作中，我也開始有意識的進行文字的加粗、排列以突出重點，還引入了圖片材料來證明活動的真實性。」 

• 「這學期最重要的收穫，是培養了『文化語境』的思維習慣。現在準備任何內容時，我都會先站在受眾的文化背景思考：『這樣的表達符合他們的文化背景嗎？能理解嗎？』這種思維轉變，讓我體會到新媒體只是媒介，而溝通的核心永遠在於人與人之間的理解與連結。」