George
Mason University Course
website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~kzhang/index.html Course
Objectives
1.
To
advance communicative skills in business settings 2.
To
develop advanced skills in reading materials related to Chinese business
3.
To
develop discussional and presentational
skills on business issues 4.
To
develop writing skills for expressing business concepts Course
Requirements Students’
own work is the key to the success of this course. You are required to:
1.
Preview and review the lessons by listening to the CD before and after classes
2. Participate
actively in class with the teacher and your classmates 3. Finish
all homework, and turn them in on due day 4. Attend
the class consistently and on time. There will be no penalty for the first
two missed
classes. After that, each absence will reduce your final grade by
one percentage point. Quizzes Final
Exam Grading Attendance
+ In-class Performance 20% Homework
20% Quizzes
30% Oral
Final
15% (10%+5%) Written
Final
15%
100%
minus attendance penalty, if any Your
letter grade is given based on the following point scale: Textbook A
Business Trip to China: Conversation & Application VolII(Textbook and Workbook)
by Xiaojun Wang; Beijing Language and Culture
University Press 2005 Recommended
Reading Open
for Business Volume One (Textbook and Exercise Book) by Jane C.M. Kuo; Cheng&Tsui Company
2001 Recommended
Dictionary Session
by Session Schedule
Date Class
Homework Week
1 Introduction
to the Course 8/27
W L7 Dialogue
I Week
2
Labor
Day. No class! 9/3
W L7
Dialogue II Week
3 L7
Grammar & Pattern Drills 9/10 W L7Review
& Quiz
L7
Homework Due Week
4 L8
Dialogue I 9/17
W L
8Dialogue II Week
5 L8
Grammar & Pattern Drills 9/24
W L8Review
& Quiz L8
Homework Due Week
6 L9Dialogue
I 10/1
W L9
Dialogue II Week
7 L9
Grammar & Pattern Drills 10/8 W L9
Review & Quiz L9
Homework Due Week
8 Columbus Day
Recess, Monday classes
meet Tuesday! L10 Dialogue
I 10/15
W L10
Dialogue II Week
9 L10 Grammar & Pattern
Drills 10/22
W L10
Review & Quiz L10
Homework Due Week
10 L11
Dialogue I 10/29
W L
11Dialogue II Week
11 L
11 Grammar & Pattern Drills 11/5 W L 11 Review &
Quiz L11
Homework Due Week
12 L12
Dialogue I 11/12
W L12
Dialogue II Week
13 L
12 Grammar & Pattern Drills 11/19
W L
12 Review & Practice Week
14 Presentation
Draft Peer Review 11/26 W Happy
ThanksgivingJ No
class! Week
15 Final
Oral Presentation and Course Evaluation L
12 Homework Due 12/3 W Review Monday, 12/
15 7:15p.m. FINAL
EXAM (in our classroom) Happy
Holidays! J
Department
of Modern & Classical Languages
Fall
2008 CHIN305 – Chinese for Business World
Class
Meeting Time: M W 5:55 p.m. -7:10 p.m.
Class Meeting Place:
RA107
Instructor: Chen, Xi
Office Location: Thompson Hall 234-A
Office Hours: TR 10:45a.m.- 11:45 a.m. and by appointment
Office Phone:
(703)
993-1631
E-mail:
xchen8@gmu.edu
There
will be a quiz after each lesson (L7-L11). The lowest score on a quiz (including
zero for a missed quiz) will be dropped when calculating the final grade. There
will be no make-up quizzes or quizzes taken in advance, unless the student has a
legitimate reason and informs the instructor in a timely
fashion.
Your final exam will include an oral test and a written
test. There will be a final oral exam at the end of the
semester. Each student is required
to give a presentation (draft is required) of approximately 5 to 7 minutes in
front of the class on a topic of his or her choice but closely relating to the
topics we studied during the semester.
Questions will be asked after the presentation. The written test will be a comprehensive
test on your knowledge of characters, grammar, reading and writing skills.
More details will be given in class.
A
100-93
C+ 79-77
A-
92-90
C 76-70
B+
89-87 D
69-60
B
86-83 F
59-0
B- 82-80
The
Oxford Chinese Dictionary.
New International Edition. Chinese-English/ English-Chinese. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1999.
8/25
M
9/1 M
9/8 M
9/15
M
9/22
M
9/29
M
10/6 M
10/14
T
10/20
M
10/27
M
11/3 M
11/10 M
11/17
M
11/24
M
12/1
M
4:30p.m.-