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 University of North Carolina - Department of Asian Studies ChineseMajor Minor Courses in Chinese
Chinese is the most widely spoken language, and the language with the longest continuous written legacy, in the world. It exists in both classical and modern forms and has exerted a strong influence on other East Asian languages, most notably Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. It is one of the world's major literary, commercial, scientific, and political languages. Chinese is tonal and tends to be monosyllabic in the sense that most of its syllables have an independent meaning even when they are part of multisyllabic words. In the Chinese writing system, each symbol, commonly called a "character" or "ideograph," stands for one syllable. Most characters have an element, called a radical, that gives a clue to the meaning of the syllable, and another element, called a phonetic, that gives a clue to its pronunciation. Modern standard (or Mandarin) Chinese is based on the speech of Beijing. Chinese also has many important dialects. such as Cantonese, Hakka, Taiwanese, and so on, that are not automatically intelligible to a speaker of the standard dialect. Written Chinese, however, tends to be uniform in vocabulary and structure, regardless of the dialect of the speaker. The Department of Asian Studies offers Chinese language courses, advanced literature and culture courses in Chinese, and Chinese cultural studies courses taught in English. Students can major or minor in Chinese, or simply choose Chinese to satisfy their foreign language requirements. In the Chinese language program, there is a special track for "heritage students," or those who have learned some Chinese at home or elsewhere and already have knowledge of the spoken but not the written language. CHIN 111 [101] is the first course of an accelerated sequence, focused on written Chinese. Students who place into CHIN 111 [101] can satisfy the foreign language requirement with only two courses, CHIN 111 [101] and CHIN 212 [102].
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