Chinese Characters and Calligraphy
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Unlike the western writing systems, Chinese characters represent both pronunciation as well as meaning. So knowing how to pronounce a word doesn’t guarantee that one can write or understand it correctly. Another more practical reason is that the teaching of Chinese characters is often scattered through the program, without a clear structure nor a helpful clue for one to build up one’s knowledge of this rather complicated writing system. Therefore, this course is designed to learn Chinese characters in a systematic way. It focuses not only on training the students’ abilities to recognize and memorize new characters, but also help them to learn the history and culture. At the same time, hard-pen calligraphy will be introduced and practiced to help the students to learn the characters in a fun and meaning-oriented way as well as develop their skills in how to write the characters more beautifully and appreciate the beauty embedded in. No prerequisites are required for this course. Anyone who is interested in can sign up.
Duration: 2 hours/class, total 20 hours. Cost: $200.The Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas
Inaugurated in November 2007, the Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas is a non-profit public educational institution. Its mission is to teach Chinese language and culture, support Chinese language instruction in local schools, train Chinese language teachers, and promote academic research on China. Affiliated with the School of Arts & Humanities, the Institute serves students on campus and people off campus in their needs for Chinese language, china knowledge, and resources for China study. Dedicated to cultural, intellectual, business and economic exchanges between China and north Texas, it aims to become a regional center for China studies in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas.
Confucius Institutes tries to achieve its goals by providing the following services:
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Teaching Chinese language and culture by offering credit and non-credit courses for UTD students and people in the community
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Training Chinese language teachers
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Supporting local schools to develop and strengthen their Chinese programs by establishing Confucius Classrooms
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Organizing Chinese Proficiency Tests: HSK, HSKK, YCT and BCT
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Conducting academic research on Chinese literature, history, society and philosophy; and holding international conferences and symposiums ...
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