Summary of Course Goals
By the end of the VTN 201 & 202 courses, students will be able to handle their needs adequately if they travel or live in Vietnam. They will be able to:

• be familiar and comfortable with Vietnamese terms of address and kinship terms 
• buy tickets for transportation, rent a room or a house, eat out, shop, and run errands 
• carry out simple transactions at a bank and post office 
• talk about a variety of topics including pastimes, sports, mass media, educational system
• conduct a job interview as well as to be interviewee
• talk about common interest and cultural related issues 
• have an overview of Vietnamese geography, history, arts, and belief systems
• read reading passages, articles from newspapers and magazines, and folk tales 
• write notes, messages, and letters. 

Textbooks and Materials Required
Chúng ta nói ...Conversational Vietnamese - An Intermediate Text by Lê Phạm Thúy-Kim and Nguyễn Kim Oanh 

Supplementary materials as assigned and provided by the instructor.

Course Requirements

• Class attendance, participation and full attention
• Access to high speed internet to read online assignments, listen to audio clips, and watch video clips
• Check Blackboar courseware in my.asu and read email messages at least 3 times weekly
• Ability to create documents in Vietnamese using Unicode fonts
• Reading assigned readings, preparation for discussion both in class and online, and writing analysis of the text 
• Quizzes and tests
• All other assignments as assigned

Hybrid Course Requirements
Is online or hybrid learning for you? Please take time to visit the following web sites to find out if online or hybrid learning is right for you and what kinds of requirements for students enrolled in online or hybrid learning.

http://asuonline.asu.edu/student-resources/getting-started/readiness-quiz

http://asuonline.asu.edu/student-resources/computer-requirements

Access to my.asu.
Enrolled students must go to my.asu.edu to access detailed syllabus, tentative course schedule, weekly schedules (posted weekly) and other course documents and engage in online discussion via Discussion Board of My.ASU

Using VN Unicode fonts
Go to the following web page to read and download Unikey keyboard driver to type Unicode font. Then, make appointment to see the instructor if you need help with typing VN Unicode font.
http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/howto/

Created and maintained by Lê Phạm Thúy-Kim
Last updated August, 2009
email:  kim dot le at  asu dot edu