National Database

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Name of the Institute

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada

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Home department/faculty

Language and Cultures Dept, Faculty of Arts

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Programs /courses
on Campus

Fall Program/courses: Mand 1100 (2 sections) 2200, 3310, 4321 or 4481

Spring Program/courses: Mand 1100, 1101, 2201, 3311, 4323 or 4483

Summer Program/courses: NONE

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 Field School

None

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Director/ Coordinator

Yanfeng Qu, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator and LANC Department Chair

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Yearly Enrolment

About 250

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Chinese Instructors

Faculty Members:  2
Full-time Instructors: 1
Part-time Instructors:1

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Teaching Assistants

Full-time:
Part-time: 1

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Textbooks

For Mand 1100, 1101, 2200 and 2201, Integrated Chinese 4th ed. Books 1 and 2. Cheng & Tsui
For Mand 3310-3311, Beyond the Basics. Cheng & Tsui
For Mand 4321-4323, Close the Deal. Cheng & Tsui
For Mand 4481-4483, 中国现代文学经典（1917—2010）.Peking University Press

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Credentials offered

Minor in Language and Culture, Language and Cultures Department, Faculty of Arts, KPU

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Events/Activities

In Fall 2023, we launched the inaugural LANC Sings event where students and faculty sang in the 6 languages taught in the dept. As it was a success, Arts’s Dean’s Office encourages us to offer it often in the future with support.

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Contact Information

Dr. Yanfeng QU

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Course Description
(Please put course description link here.)

 https://www.kpu.ca/arts/language-cultures

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Changes and challenges for the Chinese programs

---The last few years have witnessed a dwindling of non-heritage students taking Mandarin Chinese courses;
---Though our 2nd year Mandarin courses have the highest enrollment in the dept for 2nd year language courses, our concern is that it may go down like other 2nd year language courses where the enrolment has been less than 50%. The reason for the decline with the 2nd year language course enrolment is very curious, one of them possibly being AI that makes students less motivated in investing time, money and efforts to further pursue language learning.