Taiwan and China in Global Affairs
CHI4605.01
Course Description
Summary
Whether it's global economic disruptions from COVID-19 and Beijing's "zero cases" policy, the US-China trade war and heightened tensions over Taiwan as it becomes a high-tech chip manufacturing powerhouse, China's failing "One Belt One Road" program or Putin courting Xi's favor in his war against Ukraine, China and Taiwan are making a lot of global affairs headlines recently. In this course, students will use authentic materials, such as print articles, videos, and other media as springboards to analyze and discuss Taiwan and China's role in global affairs. Students will be given written texts with vocabulary lists and grammar points for each topic. Students will advance their skills in all four language areas via class discussion, research papers, worksheets, etc.Prerequisites
The equivalent of at least 5 terms college level Chinese or placement test.
Please contact the faculty member : glin@bennington.edu