Chinese

Effective: Fall 2020
Certificate of Achievement Program Map
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

I'm ready to get started. What do I do next?

  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu / admissions / degreeworks
Program Description
This certificate will provide you with skills to communicate efficiently in oral and written Chinese in your everyday personal or professional life, and open opportunities to participate in your community and beyond. You will develop an extensive cultural knowledge of the Chinese-speaking world, which is one of the largest economies in the world by GDP with hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the Chinese on consumer goods/services.

What can I do with this major?
Graduates with this degree will be prepared to: 1) Work in the fields of education, entertainment, media, interpretation/translation, hospitality/tourism, banking/finance, government/immigration, sales/customer service, and other relevant fields;2) Seek work for international Chinese-speaking companies with offices in the USA, Canada, and Asia and communicate well with potential customers, business partners, employers or vendors; 3) Use Chabot Chinese language course units for Certificate of Achievement in Entrepreneurship and UC and CSU transfer requirements.

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Communication, Language & Media

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education
Students who have studied 2 or more years of Chinese in High School may start at CHIN 1B or CHIN 2A level. To request a higher placement, please contact Professor Chen at hychen@chabotcollege.edu.
If a student places out of any core course(s) and is not awarded units for that course, the student will need to take additional units to compensate for the course/units required to reach 18 total units in the major (Title 5 regulations). Course substitutions are made at the discretion of the local college and may or may not be delineated in the local degree.

Semester 1

5 units

CHIN 1A
Beginning Chinese

5 units
Introduction to the Chinese cultures of the world featuring the study and practice of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of Mandarin Chinese. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1A
    2. or
  2. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1
Terms Offered: Fall

Semester 2

5 units

CHIN 1B
Elementary Chinese

5 units
Further study of the Chinese cultures of the world featuring the acquisition of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of Mandarin Chinese begun in Chinese 1A. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: CHIN 1A
Terms Offered: Spring

Semester 3

4 units

CHIN 2A
Intermediate Chinese

4 units
Review of grammar; practice in conversation and composition; research on topics related to Chinese culture and literature. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: CHIN 1B
Terms Offered: Fall, Rotating

Semester 4

4 units

CHIN 2B
Advanced Chinese

4 units
This advanced Chinese course is designed for students who have completed 2A or equivalent. Students should know at least 800 Chinese characters and essential and advanced Chinese grammar patterns before they register to this course. The emphasis is on building up students' communicative skills in both speaking and reading through learning activities in class. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing of Mandarin will be further practiced within a cultural framework at the high intermediate level.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: CHIN 2A
Terms Offered: Rotating, Spring

Chinese 2A and 2B sequence are offered every other year. 

Total Units: 18 units
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.