LN814     
Mandarin: Level Five (Current Issues)

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Requisites

Pre-requisites:

Students must have completed LN808 before taking this course.

This course aims to develop students' linguistic skills at an advanced level with a clear focus on current issues. The students will be given opportunities to learn the key vocabulary of global events as well as current affairs. The topics include e-Commerce, wealth inequality, gender discrimination, migrant workers, environment protection, political movement and so on. 

The course is communicative and interactive. The students are required to read authentic materials in the target language and learn to discuss, summarise and debate about current issues in China as well as the rest of the world.

22 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
16 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.

Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of group tutorial time, as arranged by the teacher during the AT, WT, ST.

Students will be expected to produce 1 project in the WT.

Authentic and purposely made study pack will be provided.

Oral examination (30%)

Continuous assessment (70%)