Certificate Programme in Chinese for Technology Professionals (CTP)

Course details

Duration:  8 weeks, 32 contact hours
Schedule:  4 days a week, 1 hour a day
Mode of delivery:  Online, live classes
Start date:  Mid-September 2026
Application deadline:  10 September 2026
Eligibility:  At least an undergraduate degree from a recognised institution
Fees:  ₹14,000 + GST

What you will learn

1. Survival Chinese through Comprehensible Input – personal information, locations, high-frequency actions, basic responses and emotions.
2. Everyday & Workplace Communication – daily routines, simple interactions, giving and receiving, comparisons and basic technology vocabulary.
3. Tasks, Processes & Problem-Solving – sequencing actions, simple problems, preferences and reasons, work actions, workflows and basic trends.
4. Applied Chinese for Technology Contexts – project language, opinions, risk and attention expressions, and guided technical communication.

Who should join

Technology professionals, engineers, IT and corporate professionals, managers and researchers – especially those with China exposure or an interest in practical Chinese for workplace and technology-related settings. No prior Mandarin needed.

What you will gain

• Work towards recognising approximately 40-50 Chinese characters.
• Understand the basic principles of Chinese sentence structure.
• Use basic phrases and introductions, and respond to high-frequency Chinese in real time with contextual support.
• Build a practical foundation for continued learning. The course does not promise fluency in eight weeks.

Assessment

Continuous self-assessment across four components – understanding checks, confidence checks, task-engagement reflections and progress-tracking surveys (25% each). Self-assessment is graded on completion, not on correctness.

Moving to the next level

Qualifying for the next level of Chinese requires attendance of 28 of 32 contact hours and passing the final assignment.

Certificate

On successful completion, participants receive a certificate from Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. This is a non-credit professional certificate programme and carries no academic equivalence with University degree programmes.