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UNDERGRADUATE STANDARD PROGRAM

MAJOR: SINO - NOM

CODE: 52220104

(Attached to Decision No 3596/QĐ-ĐHQGHN, September 30, 2015,

President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi)

PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION

General information

Major:

+ Vietnamese: Hán Nôm

+ English: Sino – Nom

Major code: 52220104
Degree: Bachelor
Duration: 4 years
Title:

+ Vietnamese: Cử nhân ngành Hán Nôm

+ English: The Degree of Bacherlor in Sino – Nom

Training Unit: University of Social Sciences and Humanites, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Program goals

Main goals:

The program aims to produce bachelors excellent in both political quality and specialized capacity, capable of collecting, preserving, translating, researching, exploring and teaching Sino – Nom.

Specific goals:

Graduated students are well equipped with knowledges and skills necessary to approach and resolve Sino – Nom texts, in service of developing an advanced Vietnamese culture deeply imbued with national identity in an integrational and communicational era.

Admission

Admission form: Accord with regulations of Vietnam National University Hanoi.

PART II: PROGRAM OUTCOME STANDARDS

1. Specialized knowledges and capacities

1.1. Knowledge

Graduated students have advanced theoretical knowledge in educated field; be capable of employing trained methods and experienced practices to handle complex task; accumulate general knowledge of fundamental principles, natural and social laws of educated field in order to develop new knowledge and acquire higher education program; be able to govern and manage, acquired related knowledge about law and environmental protection; in possession of knowledges and capacites as detailed below:

1.1.1. Interdisciplinary knowledge of politics, economy, culture, science and technology

- Acquire knowledge of fundamental principles of Marxism – Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Ideology as well as the revolutionary line of the Communist Party of;

- Acquire general knowledge of economy, society, government and law;

- Acquire necessary natural science knowledges in order to analyse social science data.

1.1.2. Fundamental knowledge of social sciences and humanities

- Acquire social sciences’s fundamental knowledges of scientific research methods;

- Acquire Sino – Nom related knowledges of other social sciences (such as: Fundamentals of Vietnamesse Culture, General Sociology, History of World Civilization, Vietnam History…), begin to apply learned knowledges and interdisciplinary methods successfully to approach and research Sino – Nom.

1.1.3. Knowledge of philology

- Firmly acquire fundamental concepts of Linguistic, General Vietnamese language study, Vietnamese Mediaeval Literature; be capable of employing learned knowledges to resolve specialized particular fields;

- Firmly acquire knowledge of Chinese characters and Nom characters such as: a brief history of Chinese characters, evolution of Chinese characters shape, the six categories of Chinese characters and radicals in Chinese characters, the right order of writing Chinese characters, outline of Nom characters…

1.1.4. Knowledge of Sino - Nom

- Acquire fundamental knowledge of Sino – Nom and the field of Sino – Nom study by understanding elements made up Sino – Nom such as ancient Chinese writing, ancient Vietnam’s Chinese writing, Nom characters and Nom texts…

1.1.4.1. Knowledge of ancient Chinese writings

- Basically be acquainted with texts, terms, grammars, contents of the Four Books (Analects of Confucius, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean and Mencius) and the Five Classics (Classic of Poetry, Book of Documents, Book of Rites, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Annals) by analysing their notable excerpts; capable of employing gained experience to decode other Sino – Nom texts;

- Can approach chosen Chinese writings categoried by schools and periods, capable of employing gained experience to decode other Sino – Nom texts;

1.1.4.2. Knowledge of ancient Vietnam’s Chinese writings

- Have general knowledge of the evolution, functions, periods, features as well as notable authors of Vietnam’s Chinese writings;

- Have the ability to realize and analyze the most fundamental features of Vietnam’s Chinese texts on behalf of each periods and styles such as: Vietnam’s Chinese Writings from 10^th Century to 14^thCentury, 15^th Century to 18^thCentury and 19^th Century to 20^thCentury.

1.1.4.3. Knowledge of Nom charactes and Nom texts

- Firmly acquire fundamental knowledges of Nom characters and Nom texts in respect of their origin, construction, evolution; Practically translate Nom texts to modern Vietnames and analyze Nom texts of each Vietnam’s historical periods.

1.1.4.4.Theoritical specialized knowledge

- Firmly acquire fundamental knowledges of Sino – Nom’s heritage, Textology for Sino – Nom studies, Classical Chinese Grammar,…

1.1.5. Knowledge of traditional culture

- Acquire fundamentals of Vietnamese culture as well as Vietnamese traditional social organization;

- Acquire fundamental knowledge of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism in respect of history, general ideology, main authors, notable texts…

1.1.6. Have language skills (listening, speaking, reading) as equal as the minimum of Level 3 of Vietnam Standardized 6 levels Test of foreign language proficiency.

1.2. Autonomy and responsibiliy

- Can take the lead role in trained specialized fields; creatively accomplish given task; be self-adjusting, self-oriented in different types of work environment; capable of being self-taught, actively accumulate knowledges and experiences to advance specialized capacities; can give correct answers to general specialized questions and some technically complex subjects; capable of making plans, inspiring team’s intelligence; be able to judge and improve specialized activities at medium scale.

2. Capacities

2.1 Specialized capacities

2.1.1. Career Skills

- Capable of employing specialized thoeritical and pracitcal knowledges to resolve complex task; can analyze, synthesize, judege informations and datas; can synthesize every opinions in working team and make use of new scientific and technological achievements to resolve practical or metaphysical questions in educated field; can use learned knowledge to directly resolve local and regional tasks;

- Can work independently using learned knowledge to explore, resolve all types of Sino – Nom heritages;

- Capable of employing Sino – Nom’s skills and research methods to solve interdisciplinary works relating to history, sociology, litterature, culture…

2.1.2. Skills to argue, think and resolve question

- Can pratically detect and overview question;

- Can effectively search for specialized datas using internet as well as libraries;

- Can effectively make use of searching tools such as: books, digital Sino – Nom datas, computer, internet…;-

- Have basic skills of appraisal to examine Sino-Nom texts;

- Can introduce, describe Sino – Nom texts; can sentence, spell, translate, note and analyze common Sino-Nom texts.

2.1.3. Ability to research, explore knowledge

Begin to effectively use Sino – Nom research methods and other interdisciplinary methods to study Sino – Nom;
Begin to effectively explore Sino-Nom texts.

2.1.4. Capacity of systems thinking

- Capable of analysing, evaluating and exploring different values of Sino-Nom by employing every direct or indirect related knowledge of Sino-Nom in respect of history, society, culture connected by systems thinking to explore traditional values covered under Sino-Nom heritages in service of Vietnamese society’s requirement; keep the link between tradition and modern connected using modern theoritical and interdisciplinary research.

2.1.5. Social and surrounding contexts

Evaluate social and surrounding contexts related to specialized field, figure out the role the Sino-Nom bachelor;
Use personal skills and learned knowledge to make plans and become adapted to requirements and changings of work.

2.1.6. Context of organization

- Be aware of organization’s context, become adapted to work’s requirements in different types of organization (University, Institute, cultural management, archive, conservation and museum, media, tourism…)

2.1.7. Applying learned knowledge in real life

- Firmly acquire fundamental features of different types of common Sino-Nom texts and methods to practically analyze actual Sino – Nom texts;

- Can practically collect and analyze actual Sino-Nom texts; be able to register, catalog, document and note informations from texts, pictures, scans…

2.1.8. Capacities of creativity, development and changing career

Research, decode, explore and discover creatively and actively different values of Sino-Nom heritages in respect of texts and textology;
Well equip with knowledges of relative fields, interdisciplinary fields as well as foreign languague and systems thinking; effectively apply learened Sino-Nom knowledge to adapt to change in career; flexibility in changing courses to relative fields to acquire necessary diplomas in service of finding jobs on a wider scale include: Cultural management and protection, conservation and archive, media, translation, cultural events and tourism organization, philology and history education…

2.2. Soft skills

2.2.1. Personal skills

- Have time management skill to effectively perform works;

- Be persuadable to be cooparated in practicing Sino – Nom works in real life.

2.2.2. Teamwork skills

Be an active member of teams working on: learning, research, fieldwork and other social activities;
Can create teams working on: researching, lecturing, specialized activities and other social, cultural activities.

2.2.3. Management and leadership skills

Can organize and manage teamwork for research, specialized activities, social activities…

2.2.4. Communication skills

Can clearly express thoughts, present logically specialized problems, effectively use support tools to lecture;
Write correctly and logically;
Improve friendship, fellowship and other social relationship.

2.2.5. Foreign language skill

- Have enough specialized foreign language skill to understand related foreign academic dissertations, articles; can use learned foreign language to resolve specialized works; can report, present by foreign languagle.

2.2.6. Other support skills

Office informatic skill;
Informatics for Sino-Nom studies.

3. Moral quality

3.1. Personal morality

Be exemplary citizens, compliance with laws and regulations;
Aware of and behave according to social morality.

3.2. Professional ethics

Treasure traditional cultural values;
Keep academic honesty; be independent, confident and creative in work.

3.3. Social morality

Aware of Sino-Nom’s responsibility to conserve and raise traditional cultural values.
Be responsible and trustworthy in work.

4. Available jobs after graduation

Sino – Nom graduated students can be recruited to collect, conserve, translate, research, teach Sino-Nom at universities, colleges, institutes, cultural gorvenment agencies as well as social organizations.

5. Available graduate programs

Graduated students can advance to higher graduate programs according with regulations of Vietnam National University Hanoi.

PART III: PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Program’s credit requirement:

Total credits	139
General courses (except Physical Education, National Defence Education, Soft skills):	27
- Courses of specialized field:	26
+ Required	20
+ Optional	6/10
- Courses of specialized module:	18
+ Required	12
+ Optional	6/18
- Courses of specialized group:	15
+ Required	11
+ Optional	4/8 ỉ
- Specialized courses:	53
+ Required	34
+ Optional	9/18
+ Intern, graduation thesis/ courses equal to graduation thesis:	10

2. Courses

No	Code	Course	Credit(s)	Credit hours			Required code
No	Code	Course	Credit(s)	Theory	Practice	Self-Study	Required code
I		General courses	27
	PHI1004	Fundamental Principles of Marxism – Leninism 1	2	24	6
	PHI1005	Fundamental Principles of Marxism – Leninism 2	3	36	9		PHI 1004
	POL1001	Ho Chi Minh Ideology	2	20	10		PHI 1005
	HIS1002	The Revolutionary Line of the Communist Party of Vietnam	3	42	3		POL 1001
	INT1004	Introduction to Informatics 2	3	17	28
		Foreign Language 1	4	16	40	4
	FLF2401	General Chinese 1
		Foreign Language 2	5	20	50	5
	FLF2402	General Chinese 2					FLF2401
		Foreign Language 3	5	20	50	5
	FLF2403	General Chinese 3					FLF2402
		Physical Education	4
		National Defence Education	8
		Soft skills	3
II		Courses of specialized field	26
*II.1*		*Required*	20
	MNS1053	Research Methods	3	36	9
	HIS1056	Fundamentals of Vietnamese Culture	3	42	3
	HIS1053	History of World Civilization	3	42	3
	PHI1054	General Logics	3	31	14
	THL1057	Basic of State and Law	2	20	5	5	PHI1004
	PSY1051	General Psychology	3	45
	SOC1051	General Sociology	3	39	6
*II.2*		*Optional*	6/10
	INE1014	General Economics	2	20	10
	EVS1001	Environment and Development	2	26	4
	MAT1078	Statistics for Social Sciences	2	20	10
	LIN1050	Practicing on Vietnamese Texts	2	20	10
	LIB1050	Introduction to Information Literacy	2	20	10
III		Courses of specialized module	18
*III.1*		*Required*	12
	LIN2033	Introduction to Linguistics	3	45
	SIN1001	Basic Sino – Nom	3	30	15
	HIS1100	Overview of Vietnam History	3	42	3
	LIT1100	General Artistry	3	45
*III.2*		*Optional*	6/18
	JOU1051	Fundamentals of Mass Communication	3	39	6
	PHI1100	General Aesthetics	3	36	9
	ANT1100	Introduction to Anthropology	3	39	6
	LIN1102	Vietnamese Stylistics	3	45			LIN2033
	LIT1101	General Vietnamese Literature	3	45
	LIN1103	General Vietnamese Language Study	3	45			LIN2033
IV		Courses of specialized group	15
*IV.1*		*Required*	11
	LIT3005	Vietnamese Literature from 10^th Century to First Half of 18^thCentury	3	45
	LIT3050	Vietnammese Literature from the Late Half of 18^thCentury to 19^thCentury	4	60			LIT 3005
	SIN3007	Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism	4	60			SIN 1001
*IV.2*		*Optional*	*4/8*
	SIN3033	Infommatics for Sino-Nom Studies	2	15	15		INT 1004 SIN 1001
	LIT2012	Chinese Literature from Ancient Age to Tang Dynasty	2	30
	SIN3030	An Introduction and Analysis to Sino-Nom Book Stack	2	30			SIN 1001
	SIN3027	Classical Education and Examination in Vietnam	2	30			SIN 1001
V		Specialized courses	53
*V.1*		*Required*	34
	SIN3041	Grammatology for Sino-Nom Studies	3	45			SIN 1001
	SIN3005	Textology for Sino-Nom Studies	2	30			SIN 1001
	SIN3004	Classical Chinese Grammar	2	30			SIN 1001
	SIN3042	The Four Books 1 (Lunyu - Mengzi)	4	45	15		SIN 1001
	SIN3043	The Four Books 2 (Daxue-Zhongyong)	3	30	15		SIN 1001
	SIN3044	The Five Classics 1 (Shijing-Shujing)	4	45	15		SIN 1001
	SIN3045	The Five Classics 2 (Lijing-Yijing)	4	45	15		SIN 1001
	SIN3046	The Five Classics 3 (Chunqiujing with Zuo’s Comments)	2	30			SIN 1001
	SIN3047	Vietnam’s Chinese Writings from 10^th Century to 14^thCentury	2	30			SIN 1001
	SIN3019	Vietnam’s Chinese Writings from 15^th Century to 18^thCentury	3	45			SIN 1001
	SIN3048	Vietnam’s Chinese Writings from 19^th Century to 20^thCentury	2	30			SIN 1001
	SIN3022	Texts Written in Nom Script	3	45			SIN 1001
*V.2*		*Optional*	*9/18*
53	SIN3006	Rhetorics for Sino-Nom Studies	3	45			SIN 3004
54	SIN3049	Poetry of Tang Dynasty and Classical Writings	3	30	15		SIN 1001
55	SIN3050	Song and Ming Dynasties’ Philosophical Proses	3	45			SIN 1001
56	SIN3051	Sino-Nom Texts in Practice	3	30	15		SIN 3022
57	SIN3052	Zhuzi (Chinese Ancient Philosophical Masters)	3	30	15		SIN 1001
58	SIN3058	Collection of Buddhism sino literature	3	30	15		SIN1001
*V.3*		+*Intern, graduation thesis/ courses equal to graduation thesis*	10
59	SIN4055	Field Work	3	9	27	9	SIN 1001
60	SIN3023	Annual Thesis	2	10	10	10	SIN 1001
61	SIN4052	Final Thesis	5
		*courses equal to graduation thesis*	5
62	SIN4053	Analysis to Chinese Writings	3	39	6
63	SIN4054	Analysis to Nom Writings	2	26	4
Total			139

Programe » Programme of Bachelor in Sino Nom

Courses of specialized field

MNS1053

HIS1056

HIS1053

PHI1054

THL1057

PSY1051

SOC1051

INE1014

EVS1001

MAT1078

LIN1050

LIB1050

Courses of specialized module

Courses of specialized group

Specialized courses

SIN3045

SIN3046

SIN3047

SIN3051

SIN3052