Overview of Chinese Culture, Spring 2025

Welcome to our course website Overview of Chinese Culture, Spring 2025!

Session 1 Wed Feb 19 8:00-9:40 room 腾龙楼 407 - Organizational issues

FRI 8:00-9:40 中国文化概要 Overview of Chinese Culture, Spring 2025 407 BA22笔译1 (1-16, 09230030.01)

What we learn in this class

• We learn about Chinese culture from international, especially Western perspective.
• We learn about cultural phenomena, traditional Chinese culture.
• We learn English and Chinese terminology in the area of Chinese culture.
• We learn to think critically about cultural traditions and to appreciate the benefits from cultural traditions.
• We learn how to determine the location and role of Chinese culture within global culture.
• We learn basics of theories and models of intercultural communication and comparison.
• We learn the appreciate and respect the diversity of multipolar cultures and of integration.
• We become aware of the dangers of cultural discrimination (colonialism, religious missions, imperialism etc.).

Students' contribution

• Every student needs to prepare the 1-2 textbook texts of the respective chapters in the textbook ahead each week of class.
• Every student selects a topic, prepares 2 ppt presentations of 15 min. (one without AI, one with AI, and please indicate references and an AI statement at the end of the presentation) and a mentimeter.com quiz for everybody to take live in class with results shown after all will have answered. The topics and contents of the sessions are determined by the selection of the students.
• For the final exam, you write another chapter of the textbook in both Chinese and English, with "Terms and Expressions", References, Questions and Answers, Statement regarding AI

Textbook

You will receive the textbook for our class. We need a volunteer who integrates the last 92 new chapters into the word file. After tha, you will receive an updated version of the textbook. There are more than 200 topics of our textbook. Here you find all topics in the order of the book and with the names of the students who will translate the chapters into Chinese. Please select two topics by writing your name behind it and by setting it in bold. These topics will be presented in the form of a powerpoint presentation.

Agreement on use of classroom time

Should we read the texts in class or should the students read the text ahead of class (especially learning the terms and expressions) and come to class prepared? How should we use our classroom time? (presentations, quizzes, discussions, exercise to translate adhoc an unknown text from the same area)

Homework for next session (actually for every session)

Please prepare the topics of the following session by reading the respective texts in the textbook and by answering the respective questions.

Session 07 Wed Apr 02 8:00-9:40 room 腾龙楼 407 - Student presentations=

清明节4月4日——4月6日

Session 11 Wed Apr 30 8:00-9:40 room 腾龙楼 407 - Student presentations=

劳动节5月1日——5月5日

Session 15 Wed May 30 8:00-9:40 room 腾龙楼 407 - Student presentations=

端午节5月31日——6月2日

Session 16 Wed Jun 25 8:00-9:40 room 腾龙楼 407 - Final Exam

Please write your paper here: Cult_Ov_Fin_Exam_Spring_2025