Chinese

Overview

The courses offered or included in the programme are customized to develop students¿ knowledge, skills, and competence in various aspects of Chinese Studies and beyond. The Master programme in Chinese at the University of Bergen consists of newly created courses focusing on topics in Chinese language, literature, culture and society. The subjects cover a set of selected key topics in the discipline of Chinese Studies, aiming to cultivate general competences that are demanded by the society and specialized professional competences. This includes language, literature research, critical thinking and analysis, language teaching pedagogy, interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration, and knowledge dissemination.

Learning outcomes

In terms of learning goals, the students will 

• gain thorough knowledge about scholarly theories and methods in the field; 

• learn analytical skills to critically deal with different sources of information, evaluate and compare existing theories, and apply relevant research methods to carry out independent research, to contribute to new and innovative findings; 

•  have communicative competences to debate and relate about academic issues using the terminology of the academic field. To gradually improve students¿ language proficiency that allows them to translate, examine, and assess Chinese cultural and academic products, courses will integrate Chinese-language sources, both primary and secondary. 

• To enable students to carry out independent research and contribute with new and innovative findings based on Chinese primary sources, students will experiment with academic literature search in Chinese databases, data collection through the Chinese internet and social media, and learn how to critically evaluate these different sources.