curriculum vitae - Ivan Allen College - Georgia Institute of Technology

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CHIN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 15 students Fall 2008 CHIN 3813 Special Topics: 10 students Advanced Chinese II CHIN 2001 Intermediate Chinese I 7 students B. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE Summer 2009 CHIN 4699 Undergraduate Research Thomas Hazzard C. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES 1. Chinese LBAT Recruiting, Development, Co-Directing, and Teaching a. Taking full responsibility for Chinese LBAT 2011 Recruiting. Successfully recruited 26 students (record high), including 6 ROTC students and 4 non-GT students; worked with my colleague to extend the program from 6 weeks to 8 weeks, offering an additional, optional 2-week program in Qingdao; developed and led the cultural and business sites visits and other extracurricular activities in Qingdao; upgraded the LBAT website and made it more informative and resourceful; GT Chinese Classes Promotion Presentations; GT Study Abroad Fair; Chinese LBAT Information Session and Dinner. b. Took full responsibility for Chinese LBAT 2009 Recruiting. Successfully recruited 11 students (record high); GT Chinese Classes Promotion Presentations; GT Study Abroad Fair; Chinese LBAT New Year Dinner. 2. Curriculum Development at Georgia Tech a. Developed and Improved LBAT Curriculum in 2011: set up a framework to operate a big, expanding program; recruited, supervised, and coordinated with 5 local teachers; revamped the syllabi of the three courses CHIN 3691, 3692, and 3693 for the Shanghai program, adopted two most widely-used textbooks; implemented “Language Pledge,” which required students to speak Mandarin during the program period in Shanghai. b. Developed and Improved LBAT Curriculum in 2009: added a one-on-one individual conversation session; coordinated with the host institution to offer three free cultural courses in Taiji, Chinese cooking, and martial arts; organized interactions with the host SJTU students, local families and residents; integrated classroom learning with field trips and site visits; designed and conducted student questionnaires, etc. c. Fall 2008-present: Developed and taught two new 4 th -year Chinese courses (approved by the IUCC in September 2009): CHIN 3813/4003 “Advanced Chinese II: Contemporary China” and CHIN 4813/4004 “Advanced Chinese III: Contemporary China.” Introduced the textbook, Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese by Princeton University Press; developed a curriculum with a good balance between heritage learners and non-heritage learners; integrated a wide range of C.V., Jin Liu 2
multimedia materials drawn from contemporary Chinese films, documentaries, television shows, music, images, and pictures. d. Fall 2010: worked with the GT Library Reserves to upload the Integrated Chinese textbook and workbook CD online, an effort that has vastly improved the learning facilities for the tech-savvy students at GT. 2. Intensive Summer Chinese Programs a. June-Aug 2006. Middlebury Summer Chinese School, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Taught third-year intermediate Chinese, taught drill sections and lecture classes alternately, conducted one-on-one individual sessions, attended class-preparation sessions, and led the singing club of the Chinese School b. June-Aug 2004. Princeton University Intensive Chinese Summer Program in Beijing (PIB), Beijing Normal University, Beijing Taught fifth-year advanced Chinese, taught drill and discussion sections, conducted individual tutorials, led “Chinese table” lunches, attended class-preparation sessions, participated in fieldtrips and other cultural activities in Beijing, and assisted in the recruitment of local teachers and in the collaboration with the host institution 3. 2001-2006. Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY -Led three discussion sections (roughly 80 undergraduate students each year) in ASIAN 212 “Introduction to China,” a cultural course dealing with topics ranging from oracle bone inscriptions to imperial civil service examinations to modern short stories (Spring 2006, Spring 2005) -Taught Chinese 109 “Beginning Reading and Writing in Mandarin” for heritage learners (Fall 2005, Fall 2003) -Taught the drill sections in Chinese 101 and Chinese 102 “Colloquial Chinese” for beginners (Fall 2001-Spring 2002) IV. SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS A. PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PARTS OF BOOKS A.1. BOOKS Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium, Leiden; Boston: Brill, under contract Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China. co-edited with Hongyin Tao (UCLA), Singapore; London: World Scientific, 2012, forthcoming. C.V., Jin Liu 3
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