UMass Boston

Course Overview

Description

This course familiarizes students with Chinese pop culture and popular language usage in social context through the study of Chinese pop songs over the last fifty years. Study of representative songs will contribute not only to a better understanding of Chinese society in different historical periods and the range of socio-cultural perspectives on these periods but also will realize the learners' language proficiency level through use of the target language in an artistic format. This course is designed for advanced level Chinese language learners (including heritage learners). Materials are primarily in Mandarin, although some videos may be subtitled in English. Lecture and discussion are conducted in Chinese, and all written work is to be done in Chinese.