Qingdao University Chinese Language and Culture
Intensive Summer Immersion Program
Brief Introduction
The program has had a successful run each summer in the past 16 years. It provided a combination of intensive language training and cultural immersion. The solid eight-week classes meet four hours each morning and one hour of one-on-one speaking session each afternoon. Each student has a week-long home-stay with a Chinese family. The program also offers mini-courses on calligraphy, martial arts and music in afternoons. The program is also enriched by cultural tours to Beijing and Confucius’ hometown in addition to local places in Qingdao where students visit markets, schools, nursing homes, kindergartens, museums, tea farms, traditional clinics, the Beijing opera troupe, the sacred Taoist mountain, and Buddhist temples.
Duration
From May 25 to July 25, 2020, 9 Weeks
8 weeks on Qingdao campus and one week for cultural excursion in Beijing and/or Shanghai.
Language Classes
Open to international students of all levels; students will be placed at their appropriate levels shown below.
l Intensive Elementary Chinese I & II 强化初级汉语上、下
Textbooks: Integrated Chinese（中文听说读写）, Level One, Book I and II
Contact hours: 5 hours a day and 25 hours a week
Using the communicative approach, the course emphasizes on speaking, listening and reading at an accelerated speed while writing is introduced and practiced in a proper sequence. Total contact hours are 200, in addition to being immersed in a Chinese linguistic and cultural environment. The course is equivalent to the one-year sequential courses of the First-Year Chinese in an American University which has a strong Chinese program.
l Intensive Intermediate Chinese I & II 强化中级汉语上、下
Textbooks: Integrated Chinese （中文听说读写）, Level Two, Book I and II
Contact hours: 5 hours a day and 25 hours a week
Using the communicative approach, students work on developing a strong foundation for the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The course uses the second level textbooks of the Integrated Chinese (听说读写), developing from daily conversational content to texts that have substantial content from the real world, covering issues especially relevant to American students studying in China. Total contact hours are 200, in addition to being immersed in a Chinese linguistic and cultural environment. The course is equivalent to the one-year sequential courses of the Second-Year Chinese in an American University which has a strong Chinese program.
l Intensive Advanced Chinese I & II 强化高级汉语上、下
Textbooks: A Kaleidoscope of China （中国社会百态）
Contact hours: 4 hours a day and 20 hours a week
This summer course is an intensified Advanced Chinese. Emphasis is on communicative skills, designed to further improve the four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All the texts are original texts from the real Chinese society. Students learn the vocabulary needed to discuss the modern societies of China and America and the issues that face people in those societies today. Total contact hours are 160, in addition to being immersed in a Chinese linguistic and cultural environment. The course is equivalent to the one-year sequential courses of the Third-Year Chinese in an American University which has a strong Chinese program.
l Advanced Readings in Chinese: Genres, Themes and Literary Styles I & II 强化高级中文阅读：文体与主题上、下
Textbooks: Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese (无所不谈：现代汉语高级读本）
Contact hours: 4 hours a day and 20 hours a week
The course aims to further develop the advanced students' speaking, reading and writing proficiency. The course explores different genres of texts from various journalistic and literary writings. Through close reading and classroom discussion of the material, students are trained to approach authentic texts with linguistic confidence and useful methods. Total contact hours are 160, in addition to being immersed in a Chinese linguistic and cultural environment. The course is equivalent to the one-year sequential courses of the Fourth-Year Chinese in an American University which has a strong Chinese program.
l Chinese Culture and Literature 中国文化文学课
Contact hours: 8 hours a week
The course uses texts from various sources covering a variety of topics on aspects of traditional Chinese culture through philosophical sayings, literary essays and narratives, poetry, drama and fiction. All texts are in original Chinese. The intensive study of the texts is complemented by social practices at various cultural sites. The course is equivalent to a content culture course either taught in Chinese or English in an American or European university. Taught in Chinese; open to students who have completed at least two years of college Chinese in North America or Europe or their equivalent; 8 hours per week.
地址：青岛市宁夏路308号青岛大学国际教育学院 邮编：266071 http://clc.qdu.edu.cn
Address: College of International Education, 308 Ningxia Road, Qingdao, 266071, China
