Chinese minor, Ball State University

Chinese Minor, 19 hours

Why should you minor in Chinese?

Chinese is spoken by one-fifth of the world's population-more than one billion people. Knowing Chinese and China's culture will

Prepare you to serve our nation's diplomatic and national security needs.
Improve your knowledge and appreciation of one of the world's oldest civilizations.
Promote multicultural knowledge and understanding.

Having training in an important language like Chinese makes you eligible for jobs in government, foreign service, communication services (journalism and television), economics, business, international law, agriculture, trade, science, and technology.

Combining a minor in Chinese with a minor in Asian studies and a major in another area (such as business, journalism, political science, and history) will uniquely prepare you to enjoy new opportunities and meet new challenges as Asian economies and politics become increasingly important in world affairs.

Course Requirements:

CH 101 - Beginning Chinese 1.

The first course in the Chinese language.

CH 102 - Beginning Chinese 2.

The second course in the Chinese language. Prerequisite: CH 101.

CH 201 - Intermediate Chinese 1.

Designed to build on a foundation of first-year Chinese to help students achieve greater fluency in oral expression and to emphasize the reading of Chinese character texts containing both old and simplified character forms. Grammar will be taught through the use of sentence patterns, and character writing will be practiced. Traditional and contemporary aspects of Chinese culture will also be taught. Prerequisite: CH 102.

CH 202 - Intermediate Chinese 2.

Designed to build on the foundation laid thus far in Chinese and to help students achieve greater fluency in the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will read newspapers, short stories, and essays by modern authors with the help of a dictionary and will write short compositions in Hanzi on their readings. Prerequisite: CH 201.

HIST 495 - Modern China, 1600 to the Present.

Descriptive and analytical survey with emphasis on China's changing role as a member of the world community, its response to increased Western contacts, disintegration of traditional order, revolutionary changes through the Republic of China and the People's Republic, and significant elements of contemporary Chinese society and culture.