CHIN 100AAdvanced Modern Chinese
Chinese · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Course 100A with grade of C or better or Chinese placement test is enforced requisite to 100B; course 100B with grade of C or better or Chinese placement test is enforced requisite to 100C. Third-year Chinese. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Chinese to qualify for more advanced courses. Materials selected from contemporary Chinese publications, with emphasis on social sciences. Texts analyzed for their linguistic features and social and cultural background. Readings, compositions, informal debates on topical issues, and oral presentations.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 6 or 10 with grade of C or better or Chinese placement test.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CHIN 100A
- CHIN 100BAdvanced Modern Chinese
- CHIN 100CAdvanced Modern Chinese
- CHIN 101AAdvanced Readings in Modern Chinese
- CHIN 108FLSpecial Studies: Readings in Chinese
- CHIN 109Advanced Tutorial Instruction in Chinese
- CHIN 135Chinese-Language Film and Culture
- CHIN 130AReadings in Modern Chinese Literature
- CHIN 130BReadings in Modern Chinese Literature
- CHIN 165Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Texts
- JAPAN 165Introduction to Japanese Buddhist Texts
2 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 11 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.