School of Chinese Studies

School of Chinese Studies is the largest base of teaching Chinese as a second language in Northeast China. Since its establishment over 20 years ago, it has trained more than 10,000 international students from many different countries who have come to China to learn about the Chinese language and culture. It offers both long-term and short-term language training courses in its BA and MA programs. It has about 1,500 international students now from over 30 countries.

It is the HSK test center in Dalian.

It is the test center of Competence in Chinese as Required by Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Liaoning Province.

It is the earliest in China to teach foreign students Chinese and offer BA in Chinese to foreigners.

It has regular exchanges with more than 20 universities and 30 civil societies abroad.

Curriculum:

Required courses:
     Elementary Chinese, Elementary Listening, Elementary Speaking, Elementary Reading, Intermediate Chinese, Intermediate Listening and Speaking, Intermediate Reading, Advanced Chinese, Advanced Spoken Chinese, Advanced Reading, Chinese Culture, Newspaper Reading, Chinese Writing, Translation, etc.

Selective courses:
     Chinese Grammar, Calligraphy, Traditional Chinese Painting, Erhu, Pipa, Flute, Chinese Martial Arts, taiji, Chinese cuisine, etc.