Chinese Continuers Stage 6 Syllabus (2009)

The Chinese Continuers syllabus helps students develop their skills and cultural understanding of Chinese through tasks based on a range of texts and text types. Download the syllabus and find HSC support materials.

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About the course

Find out more about Chinese Continuers, including the course description, what students learn and themes covered.

Course description

This course provides opportunities for students to develop their skills and knowledge of Chinese. Through tasks associated with a range of texts and text types, students gain insight into the language and culture of Chinese-speaking communities.

What students learn

Topics and sub-topics studied through 3 prescribed themes, the individual, the Chinese-speaking communities and the changing world provide contexts in which students develop their communication skills in Chinese and their knowledge and understanding of language and culture.

Preliminary (120 indicative hours)

Students will develop skills in, and knowledge and understanding of the Chinese language through the study of prescribed themes and associated topics.

HSC (120 indicative hours)

Students will gain a broader and deeper understanding of the Chinese language and will extend and refine their communication skills in Chinese through the study of the prescribed themes and associated topics.

Themes

The individual

This theme enables students to explore aspects of their personal world, for example, sense of self, aspirations for the future, personal values, opinions, ideas, and relationships with others. At the same time, this theme also enables the student to study topics from the perspective of other individuals.

Chinese-speaking communities

This theme explores topics from the perspective of groups within those communities or the communities as a whole and encourages students to reflect on their own and other cultures.

The changing world

This theme enables students to explore change as it affects aspects of the world of work and other topics such as current issues and youth issues.

Course numbers and exclusions

Board Developed Course

Course number(s):

11540 Chinese Continuers (2 units – Preliminary)
15550 Chinese Continuers (2 units – HSC)

Prerequisites: Nil

Corequisites: Nil

Eligibility: Strict eligibility rules apply to Chinese Continuers courses where an Chinese in Context and/or an Chinese and Literature course exists. Refer to Languages courses eligibility criteria.

Study via self-tuition: Yes

Exclusions: