CHINESE at University of California, Berkeley

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. CHINESE 1BElementary Chinese
  2. CHINESE 10AIntermediate Chinese
• 1. CHINESE 110AIntroduction to Literary Chinese
  2. CHINESE 110BIntroduction to Literary Chinese
• 1. CHINESE 100XBAdvanced Chinese for Heritage Learners
  2. CHINESE 1BElementary Chinese
  3. CHINESE 10AIntermediate Chinese

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CHINESE coursework.

• CHINESE 10AIntermediate Chineseopens 12 courses (1 directly)
• CHINESE 10BIntermediate Chineseopens 11 courses (1 directly)
• CHINESE 100AAdvanced Chineseopens 10 courses (7 directly)
• CHINESE 110BIntroduction to Literary Chineseopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• CHINESE 100BAdvanced Chineseopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• CHINESE 101Fourth-Year Chinese Readings: Literatureopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CHINESE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 30 CHINESE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 43 more CHINESE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CHINESE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at CHINESE 111

  1. CHINESE 1BElementary Chinese
  2. CHINESE 10AIntermediate Chinese
  3. CHINESE 10BIntermediate Chinese
  4. CHINESE 100AAdvanced Chinese
  5. CHINESE 100BAdvanced Chinese
  6. CHINESE 101Fourth-Year Chinese Readings: Literature
  7. CHINESE 111Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Advanced Chinese Texts

• 3 courses deep, ending at CHINESE 134

  1. CHINESE 110AIntroduction to Literary Chinese
  2. CHINESE 110BIntroduction to Literary Chinese
  3. CHINESE 134Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry

• 2 courses deep, ending at CHINESE 10X

  1. CHINESE 1XAccelerated Elementary Chinese for Heritage Speakers
  2. CHINESE 10XAccelerated Intermediate Chinese for Heritage Speakers

• 2 courses deep, ending at CHINESE 30A

  1. CHINESE 3BElementary Cantonese
  2. CHINESE 30AIntermediate Cantonese

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CHINESE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CHINESE yet.

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Department events

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