The fourth year will focus on developing students’ conversational and writing skills through reading and discussion of current events from China’s perspective. Topics include social and economic problems, climate change and pollution, changing family structures, the lives of migrant workers, and education. You will have many opportunities to demonstrate your mastery of new skills in speaking, reading, and writing through a series of scenarios drawn from real life, such as completing a college application and conducting a job interview in Chinese, and discussing the challenges facing the youth and elderly in China with a Chinese pen pal. Such engaging exercises reveal the similarities and differences in our cultures.

Chinese Course Rotation
2025-26 Chinese III
2026-27 Chinese I, Advanced Chinese IV
2027-28 Chinese II, AP Chinese Language and Culture