This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

 This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

• How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? 

 Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

• Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts. 

 Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

• Ethical Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Intercultural Competence 

CHIN 1002, Elementary Chinese II, aims to build oral and written communication skills in Chinese at the elementary level and improve cultural awareness and literacy of the Chinese -speaking world. CHIN 1002 contributes to students’ education in the humanities by introducing both the Chinese language and the humanistic cultures of the Chinese -speaking world.