Chinese Language and Culture Day @ OSU
Date: Friday, 6 March 2015
Time: 9:40 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Venue: Senate Chamber, Ohio Union
Flyer: Chinese Language and Culture Day @ OSU - Program
This is an inaugural event that brings to The Ohio State University a group of 46 Chinese language learners from 7 high schools in Greater Columbus and beyond in the Buckeye State to experience a snippet of Chinese language and culture offered by OSU's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL).
High School students will learn from Mr. Steven Knicely, our veteran instructor who oversees the daily operations of DEALL's Chinese language program, how DEALL's Chinese language classes are conducted and to view them in action. They will also attend a mini-lecture on Chinese culture by DEALL chair, Professor Mark Bender. This inaugural event's mini-lecture is entitled, "Butterfly Mother and other Creation Epics from SW China.”
The day closes with a casual lunch where the high school students and their chaperones (teachers and parents) will have an opportunity to sit and talk over lunch with some of our China faculty members, graduate students who teach Chinese in our program, and undergraduate students who are studying Chinese at Ohio State.
SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING THIS YEAR:
Columbus Academy
Dublin Coffman High School
Gahanna Lincoln High School
Hilliard Bradley High School
Hilliard Davidson High School
Hilliard Darby High School
New Albany High School
ORGANIZERS:
Institute for Chinese Studies
East Asian Studies Center
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Ohio Association of Teachers of Chinese
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Marjorie Chan, Chair (Director, Institute for Chinese Studies)
Etsuyo Yuasa (Director, East Asian Studies Center)
Steven Knicely (Academic Program Specialist, DEALL)
Ping Wu (President, Ohio Association of Teachers of Chinese)
Jeffrey Chan (Assistant Director, Institute for Chinese Studies)
SPONSORS:
Institute for Chinese Studies
East Asian Studies Center
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
CO-SPONSORS:
Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL)
Graduate Students of East Asian Languages and Literatures (GREALL)
SPECIAL THANKS:
Special thanks go to ICS's Jerome G. Dare fund for partial support of this year's event.