A: Check details at our website:
Features of CLC Programmes > Programme Highlights
2. Q: Must I go to CUHK Shatin campus for lessons? Do you have other
classrooms down town?A: For full time award-bearing programmes and seasonal intensive courses, most of the courses will be conducted in the CUHK Shatin campus. For part time courses which is usually held in the evening, they will be held in our down town classrooms in Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association (Tsim Sha Tsui). Check venue website at: download areas > Map
3. Q: What is the studying environment?
A: Check details at our website:
Features of CLC Programmes > Programme Highlights
4. Q: Who would be my classmates? Who were your students?
A: Check details at our website:
Introduction > Essential Facts
5. Q: What will be the medium of teaching?
A: Majority in Chinese and occasionally supplemented by English.
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Features of CLC Programmes > Language Instruction
6. Q: Who will be eligible for a certificate issued by CLC/ CUHK?
A: For awards accredited by the Chinese university, the students
must pass the course requirements and reached certain level of
language proficiency. Currently CUHKCLC offers Advanced Diploma,
Diploma, Certificate and Foundation Certificate programmes. The
former three are usually completed at a full time study basis and
foundation certificate programmes and courses can be attained by
part time study. For non award bearing programmes, attendance
certificate will be offered upon request to those who have 4/5
attendance and pass the final examination.
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Features of CLC Programmes > Test, Certifications & Credits
7. Q: How do I know whether my university will recognize my credits earned in the
Center? A: It is always at a university’s discretion to decide whether or not to recognize study credits earned in other universities. CUHK has more than 150 partner universities in the world and usually they recognize study credits earned here through the exchange programmes. To play safe, it is better for you to ask your university departments first before applying for our programmes if you have such an expectation.
On the other hand, however, there are self-financed students who are not coming through the exchange programme and studied the 2 year advanced diploma programme here (formerly known as regular graduate certificate program) had been recognized by employers and secured a job in Hong Kong well before his graduation.
8. Q: How are your programmes related to HSK (漢語水平考試)? A: All students in the cert/ dip./ A.dip Putonghua (Mandarin) programme can attend elementary/ intermediate HSK by their own. Those who wish to take the advance HSK (grade 9-11) need to complete the 2 year A.dip programme plus a special boost course on sentence structure.
Usually, students of our 2 year-programme can at least get grade 4-7, and with better preparation, up to grade 8 in the elementary-intermediate exam. Most important of all, CLC programme specialized in speaking training. Since HSK elementary/ intermediate does not have oral speaking test, there are many people outside got good grades in this exam but cannot speak well. Thus, CLC programme has certain advantage over many current school practices outside.
There were students here, absolute beginners, who have studied for 2 weeks. Her friends were astonished by the level she can speak in such a short time.
The COPA exam developed by CLC is an oral proficiency assessment which certifies a student’s oral capability. This certificate can somehow serve as a supplement to the HSK elementary/ intermediate cert which does not have any oral test.
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Features of CLC Programmes > Test, Certifications & Credits
9. Q: Are there any programmes for native Chinese speakers to attend
Putonghua open examinations, such as PSC test (國家語委水平測試) and
Putonghua exams hosted by the Hong Kong examination authority?
A: Yes, we already have this since 2006. Please check CLC web site regularly for details:
Features of CLC Programmes >
Programmes for
Chinese