A continuation of LGGA74H3.

An intensive elementary course for students with minimal or no knowledge of Tamil. Students learn the Tamil script and sound system. The course also develops listening and speaking skills through culturally-based materials. Course materials are enhanced by audio-visual and computer based activities.

This is an elementary course for students with no knowledge of Bengali. Students will learn the Bengali script and sound system in order to start reading and writing in Bengali. The course also develops listening and speaking skills through culturally-based materials. Course materials are enhanced by audio-visual and computer based activities.

A beginning course for those with minimal or no knowledge of Japanese. The course builds proficiency in both language and culture. Language practice includes oral skills for simple daily conversation; students will be introduced to the Japanese writing systems and learn to read and write simple passages.

Continuation of Introductory Japanese I.

This course is an intensive elementary course for those with minimal or no knowledge of Japanese. It combines the materials taught in both LGGA80H3 and LGGA81H3, and builds on proficiency in both language and culture. Language practice includes oral skills for simple daily conversation. Students will also be introduced to the Japanese writing systems and learn to read and write simple passages.

This course is an intensive elementary course in written and spoken Spanish, including comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. It is designed for students who have no previous knowledge of Spanish. The course will develop listening and speaking skills through culturally-based materials, which will be enhanced by audio-visual and computer-based activities.

An introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of standard Arabic - the language common to the Arab world. Classroom activities will promote speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Special attention will be paid to reading and writing in the Arabic script.

This is an intensive elementary course for students with minimal to no knowledge of the featured language. Students will learn the script and sound system so they may begin to read and write in this language. The course will develop listening and speaking skills through culturally-based materials, which will be enhanced by audio-visual and computer-based activities. Students may not repeat this course for credit, including when the current featured language is different from previous featured languages.

This course will develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Standard Chinese. Writing tasks will help students to progress from characters to compositions and will include translation from Chinese to English and vice versa. The course is not open to students who have more than the rudiments of Chinese.

A continuation of LGGB60H3.

This course will further improve the literacy skills of heritage students by studying more linguistically sophisticated and topically extensive texts. Those who have not studied pinyin, the Mandarin pronunciation tool, but know about 600-800 complex or simplified Chinese characters should take this course instead of courses LGGA64H3 and LGGA65H3.

A continuation of LGGB62H3.

Develops language and literacy through the study of Hindi cinema, music and dance along with an introduction to theatrical and storytelling traditions. The course enhances acquisition of cultural competence in Hindi with composition and conversation, complemented by culture-based material, film and other media.

Continuation of LGGB70H3.

Tamil language taught through culture for students with heritage language skills or prior formal study. The cultures of South India, Sri Lanka and diaspora populations will be studied to build literacy skills in the Tamil script as well as further development of speaking and listening skills.

This course develops all language skills in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation, with special attention to idiomatic expressions. Through a variety of texts and interactive materials, students will be introduced to aspects of Chinese life and culture.

A continuation of LGGC60H3.

This course focuses on similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures through a variety of cultural and literary materials. Students will further develop their language skills and cultural awareness through reading, writing, and translation.

This course focuses on aspects of Canadian and Chinese societies, and related regions overseas. Through a variety of text and non-text materials, in Chinese with English translation and in English with Chinese translation, students will further improve their language skills and have a better understanding of Canada, China, and beyond.

Intended for students who read Chinese and English well. Complex-simplified character conversion and vice versa, as well as English-Chinese and Chinese-English bilingual texts, are emphasized through reading, discussion, and translation in a variety of topics from, and outside of, Greater China, presentations, translation comparison, translation, and translation criticism.

Designed for students who read Chinese and English well. Complex-simplified Chinese character conversion and vice versa, as well as English-Chinese and Chinese-English bilingual texts are emphasized through reading, discussion, and translation in a variety of topics from global perspectives, presentations, translation and translation comparison, and translation criticism.

Advanced language learning through an introduction to the historical development of the Hindi language. Students develop language skills through the study of educational structure, and literary and cultural institutions in colonial and postcolonial India. The course studies a variety of texts and media and integrates composition and conversation.

This course examines Chinese literary masterpieces of the pre-modern era and their English translations. They include the prose and poetry of many dynasties as well as examples in Literary Chinese of other genres that are still very much alive in Chinese language and society today. An in-depth review of the English translations will be strongly emphasized.

This course examines Chinese classics and their English translations, such as The Book of Documents, The Analects of Confucius, The Mencius, The Dao De Jing, and other philosophical maxims, proverbial sayings, rhyming couplets, idioms and poems that still have an impact on Chinese language and culture today.