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Jie Cai Professorial Lecturer World Languages and Cultures

Bio
Professor Cai received his BA in Chinese from Shanghai Normal University in China and his MA and MLS from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining Â鶹ÊÓƵ, he had taught all levels of Chinese for over 16 years at schools including Harvard University, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgetown University. His research interests lie primarily in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teaching Chinese as a Heritage Language, Second Language Acquisition, Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Modern Chinese Literature
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • CHIN-212 Chinese, Intermediate I

  • CHIN-396 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Intro to Classical Chinese

Spring 2025

  • CHIN-213 Chinese, Intermediate II

  • CHIN-213 Chinese, Intermediate II

  • CHIN-313 Advanced Chinese II