National Database

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Name of the Institute

Langara College

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Home department/faculty

Modern Languages Department

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Programs /courses
on Campus

Fall Program, 1st Term:       CHIN 1115/1215/1117
CHIN 3311/3381/3383/3331/3333
Spring Program, 2nd Term:     CHIN 1115/1215/1217
CHIN 3331/3333
Summer Program on Campus:  CHIN 1115/3381/3383

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Field School

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Director/ Coordinator

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Yearly Enrolment

113 in summer 2020; 250 in total for fall 2020 and Spring 2021

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Chinese Instructors

Faculty Members:   4
Full-time Instructors: 3
Part-time Instructors: 1

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Teaching Assistants

Full-time:
Part-time:

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Textbooks

Contemporary Chinese Revised Edition Wu (Books/Exercise Books 1-3)
Contemporary Chinese Grammar Li
Teaching materials on Chinese Literature in 20th Century (compiled by the instructor)
Introduction to Classical Chinese Tian

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Credentials offered

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Online delivery platform (its name, asynchronous or synchronous or mixed)

 Brightspace D2L
All courses are taught online in mixed mode.

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Events/Activities

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Contact Information

 chinese@langara.ca

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Course Description
(Please put course description link here.)

 https://langara.ca/programs-and-courses/courses/CHIN/index.html

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Changes and challenges for the Chinese programs

The enrollment of international students was down due to the pandemic. We lost four sections of 3000 level Chinese courses in the fall 2020 and one section this Spring.