The Certificate of Achievement in Chinese (Mandarin) provides students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistence and academic achievement in Mandarin Chinese at an intermediate level. Knowledge of Mandarin and Chinese culture offers many benefits, as it is one of the world’s major languages in diplomacy and business, as well as cultural and scientific research.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

🗸 Interpret the main points of standard spoken and written Chinese relating to everyday matters.

🗸 Communicate in spoken Mandarin Chinese using a range of vocabulary, language functions, and sentence structures.

🗸 Compare and analyze aspects of Chinese culture and society.

🗸 Write simple connected text using a range of intermediate Chinese vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures.