Course Description: Mandarin Chinese 1

A brand new offering in the foreign languages department will be Mandarin Chinese. In the next four years the Mandarin Chinese program will develop into a full four-year program with sitting for the AP Chinese Language and Culture exam a possibility at the end of four years of study for advanced students.

This new course will be open to all students:

· incoming freshmen who have already had an introduction to Chinese through the DMS enrichment class;

· incoming students with no prior training in Chinese;

· returning students in all grades.

This course along with Mandarin Chinese 2 in the following year will fulfill the Dunn School foreign language requirement for graduation.