I am the teacher who will teach CHS 1341 German Language and Culture for the Semester 2204.
The 1st part is an introduction to China as a diverse and dynamic site of political and cultural entities and historical developments using as our selected topics and issues that link various periods in China’s past with the present. Ongoing concerns will be the values—both personal and social—that develop and change through China’s many ongoing traditions and that inform social stratification, political organization, and the concepts and rationales through which Chinese people have identified their cultural heritage.
The 2nd part provides an overview of the basic institutions of legal system that is operating in Mainland China, and the fundamental concepts in the core areas of Chinese Law. The emphasis of the teaching is on the distinctive features of the Chinese legal system, and major similarities and differences between this system and Western legal systems (including the common law based legal system).
Ancient Chinese Architecture played an important role in shaping the body of world architecture system in ancient times. Modern Chinese Architecture has been largely transformed along with the process of modernization and globalization. This part of lecture will mainly center on the introduction of both Ancient Chinese Architecture and Modern Chinese Architecture in order to help students establish a general understanding of the ideology, system, types, tradition, and culture of dwellings, and cities in China.
The 4th part offers a general introduction to industrial organization and antitrust practice in modern China. It covers a general discussion of price discrimination and firm’s predatory behavior under the current digital economy of china. The course will briefly go through multiple industries, such as online platforms, movies, coffee, and airlines. After this mini-course, students will understand the modern industrial organization and the current Chinese market.
The 5th part provides an overview of Chinese Politics. It examines the institutional features of the Chinese political system, the developmental success and the key challenges facing the CCP leadership, as well as significant change of public policy happened this year in education, demography , and private entrepreneurship.
To explore ancient Chinese culture by some Chinese characters
In this course, students will be taught the correct pronunciation of Chinese. They will also be taught some basic sentence structures and the grammar of Chinese language. They will learn the basic skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking in Chinese.