INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
INTRODUZIONE ALLA LINGUA E ALLA CULTURA CINESE
Course code
LT015I (AF:320896 AR:172678)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-OR/21
Period
2nd Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
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This is an introductory course on Chinese language, history and culture for the students enrolled in the Bachelor's Degree Programme in "Language, Culture and Society of South-East Asia".
By the end of the course the students will have gained a basic knowledge of Chinese language and culture and the tools necessary to understand their diachronic development, their fundamental characteristics and to distinguish the influence of Chinese language and culture on other civilisations of the Asian continent and especially on those of south-east Asia.
This is a first year course and it does not have specific requirements, but it is desirable that the students begin the course being acquainted with the geography of Asia.
Introduction to Chinese language
Geography of China
Fundamentals of history of China
Fundamentals of history of Chinese thought
Religion in China
Fundamentals of Chinese literature
Mandatory textbook: Magda Abbiati, La Lingua Cinese (Venezia: Cafoscarina, 1992).

Additional material and lecture notes will be uploaded on the Moodle page of the course during the semester.
Written test and oral examination. In order to take the oral examination it is mandatory to pass the written text.
Lectures using PPT presentations.
Italian
written and oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 28/08/2019