Academic Catalogs

VIET G280: Intermediate Vietnamese 1

Course Outline of Record
Item Value
Curriculum Committee Approval Date 04/20/2021
Top Code 111720 - Vietnamese
Units 4 Total Units 
Hours 72 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 72)
Total Outside of Class Hours 0
Course Credit Status Credit: Degree Applicable (D)
Material Fee No
Basic Skills Not Basic Skills (N)
Repeatable No
Grading Policy Standard Letter (S), 
  • Pass/No Pass (B)
Local General Education (GE)
  • GWC Arts, Lit, Phil, Lang (GC)
California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC)
  • Cal-GETC 3B Humanities (3B)
  • Cal-GETC 6A Language Other Than English (6A)
Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
  • IGETC 3B Humanities (3B)
  • IGETC 6A Lang other than Engl (6A)
California State University General Education Breadth (CSU GE-Breadth)
  • CSU C2 Humanities (C2)

Course Description

Formerly: Intermediate Vietnamese. This course is designed for students to practice essential skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will provide students with further development of vocabulary, introduce idiomatic expressions and practice writing paragraphs in standard Vietnamese. Cultural reading will include Vietnamese history, literature and current affairs. PREREQUISITE: VIET G185. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC.

Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)

  1. Course Outcomes
  2. Apply vocabulary and grammar to accurately recognize and comprehend spoken messages in Vietnamese at the intermediate level.
  3. Demonstrate vocabulary and grammar through writing at the intermediate level.
  4. Interpret Vietnamese language grammar and vocabulary and apply it to communicate orally at the intermediate level.
  5. Review vocabulary and grammar to derive the meaning of written materials at the intermediate level.

Course Objectives

  • 1. Translate Vietnamese audio at an intermediate level.
  • 2. Produce spoken Vietnamese at an intermediate level.
  • 3. Interpret literature in Vietnamese at an intermediate level.
  • 4. Compose writing samples in Vietnamese at an intermediate level.

Lecture Content

Linguistic knowledge Parts of speech Nouns Classifiers Adjectives Pronouns Verbs Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections Particles  Types of sentences Declarative sentences Imperative sentences Interrogative sentences Exclamatory sentences  Verbs Transitive verbs Intransitive verbs Linking verbs Reflexive verbs   Type of clauses Independent clauses  Dependent clauses  Nouns and their formations Simple nouns Coordinate compund nouns Subordinate compound nouns  Classified nouns Prefixed nouns Noun clauses Noun clauses functioning as subject Noun clauses functioning as object  Noun clause functioning as subject complement  Adjectives and their formation Monosyllabic Disyllabic Coordinate  Subordinate Reduplicated Adjective clauses  Adverbs of manner and adverbs of degree Adverbs of manner Adverbs of degree Adverb clauses Of time  Of place Of reason Of result  Of purpose   Sentence adverbs Disjunctive sentence adverbs Conjunctive sentence adverbs Independent sentence adverbs  Adverb clauses (cont.) Of condition  Of concession Of comparison  Of manner  Contents and topics  A legend of origin  The olden days Mountain and rivers Regional cuisines  Regional dialects  Ethnic groups

Method(s) of Instruction

  • Lecture (02)
  • DE Live Online Lecture (02S)
  • DE Online Lecture (02X)

Instructional Techniques

Lectures, discussions, pair work, group work, presentations, and projects.

Reading Assignments

Textboooks, reading handouts, news, and other materials.

Writing Assignments

Homework assignments from textbooks and other assignments (writing assignments and essays)

Out-of-class Assignments

Homework, written assignments, essays, and other assignments.  Preparation of oral presentations using Vietnamese language and their knowledge of Vietnamese language, culture, and history.

Demonstration of Critical Thinking

Students will be able to deduce valid conclusions from cultural readings. This will be done by written and oral work throughout the semester. Students will improve their Grammar of the Vietnamese language.

Required Writing, Problem Solving, Skills Demonstration

Students will be able to give presentations using the Vietnamese language and their knowledge of Vietnamese history and culture. Students will be able to write paragraphs using different types of sentences and clauses.

Eligible Disciplines

Foreign languages: Masters degree in the language being taught OR bachelors degree in the language being taught AND masters degree in another language or linguistics OR the equivalent. Masters degree required.

Textbooks Resources

1. Required Tran, T. Tran, M.T. Hanh trinh van hoa! A Journey through Vietnamese Culture (Second-year Language Course), ed. University Press of America (Latest), 2014 Rationale: (Latest) 2. Required Tran, T. Tran, M.T. . Ngon ngu va van hoa, ed. CLMER, CSULB (Latest), 2008 Rationale: (Latest)