Introducing Mandarin

Welcome Xuechun Li to College Prep!

College Prep will introduce a new program in Chinese language studies in the Fall. 

During the first year, the program will consist of two courses: one course for students who have been exposed to Chinese at home and one course for “true” beginners. In subsequent years, the program will expand to accommodate students at more advanced levels. The program will be comprehensive in that it will aim to teach students reading, writing, speaking and listening.  The ultimate goal of the program will be to prepare students for advanced Chinese language study at the college level and to expose students to Chinese culture and history through the study of the language.

Xuechun Li will teach the Chinese language studies program. She is currently a lecturer in the Chinese language program at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches Intermediate Chinese. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught Chinese to students of all levels at Yale, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the Associated Colleges in China program in Beijing. Ms. Li was born in Xi’an, China and received her B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing.