In earlier days, second-year students in the Chinese department studied the Chinese classics. Now, however, apart from occasional selections of T'ang poetry, this has been replaced by comparatively practical courses, such as "how to write letters."
早期中文系二年級要念唐詩、紅樓夢、儒林外史等古典文學；現在除了偶爾還有唐詩選外，已不見文言文，取而代之的是「如何寫一封信」等較實用的內容。