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CN127 Second-Year Chinese I
This intermediate level Chinese course is a continuation of CN 126 to advance the students' communicative competence in all four aspects of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Multimedia actitives of learning to sing Chinese songs or sing  English songs in Chinese will be introduced.

CN128 Second-Year Chinese II
This intermediate level Chinese course is a continuation of CN 127 to advance the students' communicative competence in all four aspects of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Multimedia actitives of learning Chinese proverbs and story telling will be introduced. 

CN430 Advanced Chinese
This advanced Chinese language course ultilizes multi-media materials ranging from listening comprehension, watching TV plays and news coverage, to reading literary works to further improve the students' Chinese proficiency.

CN422 Fourth-Year Chinese II
This advanced Chinese course is a continuation of CN 421 to enhance and strengthen the students' Chinese proficiency.

EA 254 China in Transition, An Anthropological Account
This course explores the cultural, historical, and social elements that were China in the past and their transformation in the present, with a focus on the impact of Mao's socialist revolution upon both rural and urban family and social life and the new directions China has taken since the economic reforms of the 1980s.. 

EA 257 From Communism to Consumerism: Pop Culture in China
This course explores a fast-changing cultural scene in reform-era China. A wide range of popular cultural forms and newly-emerging consumption patterns (including films, popular music, avant-garde art, pulp fiction, lifestyle magazines, TV commercials, fast food, theme parks, and so on) are analyzed and discussed in the context of China’s transition from a centrally controlled socialist state to a capitalist market economy and a consumer-oriented society

EA 353 Globalization And Human Rights in China
Globalization refers to a variety of political, economic, cultural, and social changes that are transforming our world. Countries are increasingly interconnected by flows of information and technology, capital and labor, ideas and culture. We will use China as a case study to address some major issues concerning globalization: its problems and prospects; terms of trade between and among nations; sweatshop labor; the role of states, markets, and global institutions; human rights and cultural preservation.

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