Language
Basic knowledge and skills of Mandarin Chinese in oral communication, reading and writing.
Comprehensive knowledge of Chinese grammar and essential vocabulary.
This course is an integrated course for the student abroad with the middle level of Chinese. Students improve their Chinese language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Designed for students who are with intermediate Chinese level (including reading, writing, listening and speaking).
Students will be able to address practical topics more proficiently and skillfully
Chinese courses will be reinforced and advanced to a higher level
In this course students will study the first five chapters of Level 2, Part one of Integrated Chinese...
In this course students will study the last five chapters of Level 2, Part one of Integrated Chinese...
Enables students to master advanced-level Chinese language structures, expressive styles, and conventions of communication used in formal situations and academic exchanges.
Students will be strong in oral Chinese, know how to talk over social phenomenon with Chinese natives in real life with a good understanding of China.
Humanities and Culture
Examine the concepts behind varying traditions of Chinese medicine and how this set of ideas and practices has been used to meet the ideological, political, as well as medical, needs of various groups.
The traditional model of Chinese history demarks the past into dynasties and their cycles of emperors.
Introduces selected fictional works by some of the most insightful writers of modern China.
Business and Economics
This is an introductory course about doing business in China through the perspective of the 36 stratagems.
Designed to give students a deeper understanding of the issues managers must consider when making financial decisions.
The course covers the key phases of doing a startup: evaluating the idea, selecting co- founders, creating a pitch deck, pitching the company to investors, developing the minimum viable product (MVP), the business model and funding. Students will practice dealing with early stage issues that cause the failure of most startups including: deciding roles, alignment, splitting equity and company valuation.
Focus on China's economic relations with the rest of the world and examine China's trade and foreign investment during the reform era (1978-present).
This course aims to develop your understanding and appreciation of the strategic thinking and practices required to act internationally and to successfully conduct business with people, business and governments in other countries.
Social Sciences
Introduces China's cultural diversity and unity as a whole.
This course will explore the contemporary social situation of
China's major religions by reading texts, visiting places of worship and discussing issues with practitioners.
Fine and Performing Arts
Compulsory Boxing Swordplay, Form and Will Boxing and Pricking Foot Boxing, 42-Form-Taichi Boxing, 32-Form-Taichi Sword Form, and much more!
An examination of the cultural background and major visual art forms of China from prehistoric to early modern times.
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Investigate Chinese ancient philosophy in a way to let its own tendencies be sensed and appreciated.
This class is devoted to the purpose of providing a basis for a basic understanding of Chinese thought.
Overview of basic Buddhist doctrine, a introduction of the history of its development in India, China and Tibet and a discussion of certain related religious topics, such as religious experience and asceticism.
Natural Science and Environment
This course provides a systematic introduction to major environmental issues in the context of recent social and economic development in China.
Students learn how statistics has helped to solve major problems in economics, education, genetics, medicine, physics, political science, and psychology.
This course is a two-semester introductory-level course in biochemistry. Topics in the first semester concentrate on protein structure and function, bioenergetics, kinetics and mechanisms of enzyme reactions, intermediary metabolism, control of metabolic pathways, and photosynthesis.
Independent and Experiential Learning
The Ricci Seminar is a one-credit, experience-based class required for all TBC students. In the intellectual tradition of Matteo Ricci, students are given the opportunity to integrate their prior learning with the new experiences of China through participation and reflection on the Silk Road or Yunnan excursion, community engagement, seminars, and service learning. This TBC signature course employs Ignatian pedagogical methods to integrate the academic, cultural, social, and spiritual dimensions of life as an international student in China.
Obtain in-depth knowledge of working in China and of Chinese people by providing you an opportunity to learn from the real Chinese world through working and interacting with the people and organizations.
Language
Basic knowledge and skills of Mandarin Chinese in oral communication, reading and writing.
Comprehensive knowledge of Chinese grammar and essential vocabulary.
This course is an integrated course for the student abroad with the middle level of Chinese. Students improve their Chinese language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Designed for students who are with intermediate Chinese level (including reading, writing, listening and speaking).
Students will be able to address practical topics more proficiently and skillfully
Chinese courses will be reinforced and advanced to a higher level
In this course students will study the first five chapters of Level 2, Part one of Integrated Chinese...
In this course students will study the last five chapters of Level 2, Part one of Integrated Chinese...
Enables students to master advanced-level Chinese language structures, expressive styles, and conventions of communication used in formal situations and academic exchanges.
Students will be strong in oral Chinese, know how to talk over social phenomenon with Chinese natives in real life with a good understanding of China.
Humanities and Culture
Examine the concepts behind varying traditions of Chinese medicine and how this set of ideas and practices has been used to meet the ideological, political, as well as medical, needs of various groups.
Social Sciences
This course introduces students to what happened in China from 1840 to the 1990s. The aim is to learn how the Chinese Empire, with a bright and advanced civilization in ancient times, became a semi-colony of the western powers, and how the Chinese people pushed forward the modernization of China.
Introduces China's cultural diversity and unity as a whole.
This course will explore the contemporary social situation of
China's major religions by reading texts, visiting places of worship and discussing issues with practitioners.
The goal of this course is to help students obtain, in the context of dynamic history and complex realities of power and ideas, a better grasp of the China-U.S. relations, the most important bilateral relations to China at the present as well as in a large part of her modern history.
Business and Economics
This is an introductory course about doing business in China through the perspective of the 36 stratagems.
The course covers the key phases of doing a startup: evaluating the idea, selecting co- founders, creating a pitch deck, pitching the company to investors, developing the minimum viable product (MVP), the business model and funding. Students will practice dealing with early stage issues that cause the failure of most startups including: deciding roles, alignment, splitting equity and company valuation.
Focus on China's economic relations with the rest of the world and examine China's trade and foreign investment during the reform era (1978-present).
This course aims to develop your understanding and appreciation of the strategic thinking and practices required to act internationally and to successfully conduct business with people, business and governments in other countries.
This course examines the international dimensions of financial management. It introduces additional economic and financial opportunities/challenges faced by multinational corporations.
Fine and Performing Arts
Compulsory Boxing Swordplay, Form and Will Boxing and Pricking Foot Boxing, 42-Form-Taichi Boxing, 32-Form-Taichi Sword Form, and much more!
An examination of the cultural background and major visual art forms of China from prehistoric to early modern times.
Natural Science and Environment
This course provides a systematic introduction to major environmental issues in the context of recent social and economic development in China.
Students learn how statistics has helped to solve major problems in economics, education, genetics, medicine, physics, political science, and psychology.
This course is a two-semester introductory-level course in biochemistry. Topics in the first semester concentrate on protein structure and function, bioenergetics, kinetics and mechanisms of enzyme reactions, intermediary metabolism, control of metabolic pathways, and photosynthesis.
Independent and Experiential Learning
The Ricci Seminar is a one-credit, experience-based class required for all TBC students. In the intellectual tradition of Matteo Ricci, students are given the opportunity to integrate their prior learning with the new experiences of China through participation and reflection on the Silk Road or Yunnan excursion, community engagement, seminars, and service learning. This TBC signature course employs Ignatian pedagogical methods to integrate the academic, cultural, social, and spiritual dimensions of life as an international student in China.
Obtain in-depth knowledge of working in China and of Chinese people by providing you an opportunity to learn from the real Chinese world through working and interacting with the people and organizations.
Philosophy and Religious Studies
This course is a survey of various religions in China that may include, not only Confucianism and Taoism, but also Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Manicheism and popular or "folk" religion. The course will consider the function of these various religions in the development of Chinese society and their significance in Chinese civilization from ancient mythology to contemporary practices and developments.
Students will study the history and main ideas and practices of Taoism, are introduced to the various schools of Taoist philosophy, and get a feel for what it means to practice Taoism today.
There are three major philosophies and religions throughout long Chinese cultural history in the past three thousand years. This course is an introduction to their basic cannons: Yijing, Daodejing, and The Platform Sutra.
