UVM's Chinese program offers an innovative language curriculum that teaches the Chinese writing system and the Chinese sound system according to their unique characteristics and intrinsic regularity. All our Chinese faculty members are native Mandarin Chinese speakers with genuine knowledge of Chinese culture and modern Chinese history. They are skilled teachers and are internationally known for their achievements in research on Chinese language pedagogy.

Students are able to learn Chinese with confidence and enjoyment in class and have opportunities to interact with their native Chinese-speaking instructors outside the classroom. The program aims to lay a solid Chinese language foundation for students, enabling them to acquire enough Chinese language skills to communicate freely with people in China or to continue to advance their Chinese language and culture studies after graduation.