Degree requirement 
Course offering
一. Degree requirement
(1) Degree requirement: a minimum of 36 credit hours
(2) credit hour structure：
A. Required courses: A minimum of 12 credit hours must include Syntactic Structures of Chinese, Research Methods, Chinese
Language Teaching Methods and Materials, and Chinese Language Teaching Practicum.
B. Elective courses: a minimum of 24 credit hours.
C. Prerequisites: students withouts undergraduate credits from the two courses: Introduction to Linguistics (4 credits) and History
of Chinese Literature (4 credits), have to take those two courses, which are excluded from the 36 degree requirement credits.
D. Thesis: 6 credit hours.
二. Language criteria
A. Domestic students: at least GEPT-intermediate in English language proficiency.
B. International students: at least TOP 7 or HSK 10 of Chinese language proficiency.
三. Eachgraduate student must has a minimum of two journal articles or conference papers. For the article with more than one authors,
the credits are calculated as follow: 1/ the number of authors.
四. Each graduate student must complete a minimum of 72 credit hours in practicum.
五. Each graduate student must attend a minimum of 2 TCSL relevant conferences.