CHIN 110A
Introduction to Classical Chinese
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 3 or Chinese placement test. Course 110A is enforced requisite to 110B, which is enforced requisite to 110C. Grammar and readings in selected premodern texts. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Took Chinese 110A and 110B with Chen. He is a very articulate professor and keeps the topics fairly interesting. His quizzes and exams are pretty straight forward and he tests exactly whats from the text. Go to class, listen to the translations and take notes, study them, and you will get a pretty decent grade. He also drops your lowest quiz grade so pretty cool. I ended with B+ and A- respectively.
Took Chinese 110A and 110B with Chen. He is a very articulate professor and keeps the topics fairly interesting. His quizzes and exams are pretty straight forward and he tests exactly whats from the text. Go to class, listen to the translations and take notes, study them, and you will get a pretty decent grade. He also drops your lowest quiz grade so pretty cool. I ended with B+ and A- respectively.
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Winter 2024 - Professor Duthie is one of the most lenient and nicest professors I've ever had. this class does take a bit of effort as each class is a discussion of the homework translation but if you plan accordingly and read the textbook it should be straight forward. The exams are 100% open book and you get enough time on it. They are all based on past translations. I would take more classes with professor duthie and plan to.
Winter 2024 - Professor Duthie is one of the most lenient and nicest professors I've ever had. this class does take a bit of effort as each class is a discussion of the homework translation but if you plan accordingly and read the textbook it should be straight forward. The exams are 100% open book and you get enough time on it. They are all based on past translations. I would take more classes with professor duthie and plan to.
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Strassberg tries to make teaching 110A as simple as possible. He goes over grammar rules and the chapters and the rest is really up to the students. I guess EFFORT is the key to staying afloat in this class. Strassberg welcomes any and all questions and of course is helpful and overall just a great and genuinely nice man. Personally, I found the TA sections to be extremely useless and it was just a bad utilization of time. Again, just put in some effort into knowing the grammar patterns and you should be fine.
Strassberg tries to make teaching 110A as simple as possible. He goes over grammar rules and the chapters and the rest is really up to the students. I guess EFFORT is the key to staying afloat in this class. Strassberg welcomes any and all questions and of course is helpful and overall just a great and genuinely nice man. Personally, I found the TA sections to be extremely useless and it was just a bad utilization of time. Again, just put in some effort into knowing the grammar patterns and you should be fine.
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