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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Fall 2024 - Prof Duthie is extremely kind and knowledgeable regarding classical Chinese, and does a really thorough job of breaking down the meanings/grammar found in our readings. Workload for class is basically just preparing translations which isn't too difficult because character definitions are all in the textbook, and she goes over all of the translations (i.e. the homework) in class.
Fall 2024 - Prof Duthie is extremely kind and knowledgeable regarding classical Chinese, and does a really thorough job of breaking down the meanings/grammar found in our readings. Workload for class is basically just preparing translations which isn't too difficult because character definitions are all in the textbook, and she goes over all of the translations (i.e. the homework) in class.
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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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