Pre-Advanced Chinese

Description from DukeHub

Designed for Chinese as a foreign/second language. Follows Chinese 204 or 224A as part of the language sequence. Increases students' knowledge of more complex forms of the Chinese vocabulary system and competencies in speaking, aural comprehension, reading, and writing. Exposure to a speech variety appropriate to formal and informal speech situations. Materials drawn from newspaper articles, essays, and other readings concerning social and cultural issues in contemporary Chinese society. Emphasis on the active use of the language for communication in written and spoken forms. Recommended prerequisite: Chinese 204 or equivalent.

Skills

• writingdescription: "writing" and 2 more
• public speakingdescription: "speech" and 1 more
• languageslanguage department: CHINESE

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "service-learning"
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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