The Diploma Program in Chinese is a vocational program that aims to produce graduates who are ready to enter the world of work armed with listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Mandarin, according to New HSK level 4 standards, with special skills in the Chinese language for teaching, business, and tourism.
Academic Activities
The Diploma Program in Chinese curriculum is designed in a comprehensive, integrative and sustainable manner between courses, which consists of the following subject groups:
- Language Skills Course
- Teaching Field Course
- Business Field Course
- Courses in the Field of Tourism
- Economics Course
- Chinese Culture Course
- General Course
Lectures are complemented by various student activities to equip students with soft skills. In addition, there are also Field Trips and Study Tours (locally and internationally) to introduce local and foreign cultures to students, which will be useful when graduates enter the world of business and tourism.
The Diploma Program in Chinese has “3+1” and “3+2” programs, in collaboration with several well-known universities in China. Through the "3+1" program, graduates of this department can directly continue their studies to the undergraduate level in just 1 year at Hebei Normal University, China. Graduates who wish to continue their undergraduate studies within 2 years at Wuhan University can join the “3+2” program.
Future and Career
Graduates of this program have practical Chinese language skills, and are targeted to have a level 4 HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) certificate or a BCT (Business Chinese Test) certificate level 4, so they can work in any field that requires competencies, such as:
- Chinese Language Teacher
- Tour guide
- Tour leader
- Tour planner
- Translator
- Secretary
- Public relations
- Front officer
- Marketing staff in import-export companies (China/Taiwan)
- Entrepreneurs (education, business, and tourism)
