Long-term Chinese Language Courses

Hunan University, situated at the foot of the picturesque Yuelu Hill,Changsha, capital city of Hunan Province, is honored as an "Ancient Millenarian Academy, Famous Centennial University". It is one of the key universities affiliated with the Ministry of Education and is now included in the state's "Project 211" and "Project 985" for priority investment and construction. The university has established academic exchanges with 104 universities and research institutes across the world.

Class	Length	Students	Goals of teaching
Elementary Class	One year	Students with no exposure to Chinese	Mastery of 2,000 commonly-used Chinese vocabulary; Mastery of basic Chinese grammar for foreigners; Mastery of 500 to 800 Chinese characters; Acquisition of basic reading ability (aided by Pinyin); Ability of basic daily conversations; Ability to write Chinese compositions of about 200 characters
	Main courses: Chinese for Beginners; Listening for Beginners; Speaking for Beginners; Elementary Conversation; Recognition and Writing of Chinese Characters; Reading for Beginners
Intermediate Class	One year	Students with elementary Chinese proficiency	Mastery of 3,500 commonly-used Chinese vocabulary; Mastery of intermediate Chinese grammar for foreigners; Mastery of at least 1,500 Chinese characters; Ability of reading general Chinese newspapers and books; Ability for fairly fluent conversations in Chinese; Ability to write Chinese compositions of about 500 characters
	Main courses: Intermediate Listening; Intermediate Speaking; Intermediate Reading; Intermediate Chinese; Intermediate Reading and Writing; Chinese Stories
Advanced Class	One year	Students with intermediate Chinese proficiency	Mastery of at least 5,000 commonly-used Chinese vocabulary; Mastery of advanced Chinese grammar for foreigners; Mastery of at least 2,000 Chinese characters; Ability of reading Chinese newspapers and books, and literary works and mastery of required written Chinese; Ability for fluent conversations in Chinese; Ability to write Chinese compositions of about 800 characters; Some understanding of Chinese culture and the Chinese society
	Main courses: Advanced Chinese; Advanced Speaking; Advanced Listening; Advanced Reading Chinese Writing Chinese Culture
Special Courses and Exposure Programs	Spare time	All students studying Chinese and Chinese culture	Traditional Chinese culture; Brief introduction to Chinese History; General Introduction to China; Brief Introduction to Chinese Literature; Brief Introduction to Chinese Music; Chinese Movie Appreciation; Calligraphy; Shadow-boxing; Learning Chinese through Chinese Songs Chinese Cuisine, etc.
	Textbooks and course materials compiled by the teachers in the centre

The University has established the national basic-course teaching bases in engineering (chemistry), the national undergraduates' cultural-quality education base, 7 national-level teaching teams, 6 bilingual model courses, 6 innovation experiment fields for talent cultivation, and 3 national model experimental teaching centers. In recent years, the University has had a lot of achievements, such as one Special Award, 3 First Prizes, 11 Second and Third Prizes in the National Teaching Achievement, and gained 25 national Excellent Courses. In the past fiveyears, students from Hunan University have won nearly 900 awards for the contests above provincial level, including first prize of the National Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Work Competition, champion of the CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest, first prize of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), and perseverance award of the Formula SAE.

Hunan University has been equipped with 2 state key laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 5 provincial or ministerial-level engineering technology centers, 12 key laboratories of Hunan Province, and 13 provincial-level social science research bases of Hunan Province. In the past decade, it has undertaken around 9,000 scientific research projects at various levels, gained 1 second-class award of the national natural science, 1 national first-class award of the Science and Technology Advancement, 16 national second-class awards of the Science and Technology Advancement, 3 second-class awards of the Outstanding Achievements for Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities. Besides, technopark co., ltd. and 53 advance-level platforms for Enterprise-University-Research Institute have been set up, and the base of Enterprise-University-Research Institute Cooperation has been established in Lugu High-tech Industrial Park. The Enterprise-University-Research Institute Cooperation relationship has covered 32 provinces (districts, cities) and 400 plus enterprises.

The university has established academic exchanges with 104 universities and research institutes across the world. Experts recruited every year have come to over 300 for long or short terms. Long-term overseas students from over 40 countries and areas reach around 1000. Confucius Institute of Hunan University, jointly cooperated by Hunan University and Honam University, has become the first overseas Confucius institute set up jointly by Hunan province.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, has always received great care and high appraise from the senior leaders of both the Central Government and local authority, such as Liu Shaoqi, Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao, who came and inspected Hunan University and wrote the inscription of "Cradle of the Talents of Xiang and Chu", "The Kingdom of Chu, unique home of talents; today's academy of Yuelu, the prosperous cradle of all", and "Ancient Millenarian Academy, Famous Centennial University".

3 Steps to Apply to a Chinese University

It is required that the applicant should be a graduate of senior high school or equivalent.

1.Photocopy of valid passport
With photo, passport number &expiration date and name included.
 
2.Passport-sized photo
A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applicant.

3.Graducation Certificate of High school
Graduation Certificate should be in English or Chinese, if not，it should be translated into English or Chinese and be notarized
 
4.Academic transcript of high school