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STUDY ABROAD IN THE FAR EAST: CHINA
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Program: The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies (Jesuit) / Loyola Chicago
Location: Beijing, China
Is this Program Right for You? The academic program at The Beijing Center is more than the typical study abroad program; it is a study China in China program. The program proceeds from the premise that to truly understand China, you must excavate it. You will need linguistic skills. You will need to observe the historical roots of Chinese culture and commerce. You will need to witness China in the cities and in the countryside, to engage with ethnic peoples in their own environment. You will need to study its fields and its factories, and see its shortcomings as well as its successes. You will need to travel intellectually, as well as physically.
The Courses/Program: The undergraduate program is an integrated mix of four components.
Language Courses: No previous experience studying Chinese language is necessary. You are, however, required to study Chinese (in the standard Mandarin dialect) when in Beijing, unless you can demonstrate fluency. The Beijing Center offers three different levels of Chinese language: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. In addition, you may choose to study at either a Standard or Intensive Track.
Studying Chinese is difficult. To assist in your study, The Beijing Center provides you with a Chinese language tutor to meet with for an hour the evening before each Chinese language class. Working together with your tutor will allow you to make substantial progress in the study of Chinese and increase your cultural understanding of China and its peoples.
Areas of Study: The Beijing Center offers nearly 75 courses each year across 13 different fields of study, all taught in English. Such a wide variety allows you to take courses that you need to begin to understand the complexities and challenges of modern China, as well as to advance your degree and prepare you for a variety of careers in the global marketplace. Areas of study include Fine Arts, Business / Economics, Chinese Language & Literature, History, Communications, Philosophy, Political Science, Science, Social Sciences, Martial Arts, Internship, Theology, Seminars. Check www.thebeijingcenter.org for a complete course list.
Integration with Chinese University Students: The Beijing Center offers many opportunities for you to get deeply immersed into Chinese culture. During your time in Beijing, you will be fully integrated in the host university, and will be paired with a host student and a Chinese language tutor.
Exploring China: TBC takes students out of the classroom to explore China. The program includes numerous weekend excursions in and around Beijing. In addition, each semester there are two academic travel excursions, one major and one minor lasting two to three weeks. In the Fall students travel along the Silk Road and the Grand Canal, while in the Spring students travel through the south of China during the Spring Festival in Yunnan Province and to the Ancient Capitals of China.
Housing: All students, except those living with a host family, will live in the International Student Center on campus at the University of International Business and Economics. Each student room is fully furnished and has a private western style bathroom. Standard rooms are double occupancy, though private rooms may be available for an additional fee.
Duration/Deadlines:
• Fall Semester: early August – mid-December / Application Deadline: April 15th
• Spring Semester: early January – mid-May / Application Deadline: October 19th
Please note: priority is given to academic year applicants.
Requirements: 3.0 GPA
Program Cost Includes: Tuition, housing and travel excursions. For more information: www.thebeijingcenter.org/program.html. Catalogues are available in ISAP’s Resource Rooms. Please note: The information on this sheet is for reference purposes only. It is your responsibility to confirm details and deadlines.
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Program: Chinese Culture and Society Program / Pitzer College
Location: Beijing, China
Is this Program Right for You? Pitzer College’s semester and year-long study abroad programs are informed by a strong commitment to cultural immersion and sustained engagement in local communities. To help you connect deeply in those host communities, the Pitzer program model integrates classroom instruction with active learning experiences in a variety of settings, including homestays, volunteer internships, independent research projects, and study trips. This academically and personally challenging combination encourages you to think in ways that cross over disciplinary, cultural, and social boundaries. It combines cognitive and affective learning to allow you to live successfully and appropriately in new cultural contexts and recognize how you have been shaped by your own culture. It can powerfully transform the way you look at the world and yourself.
Beijing, the capital city of China since the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, is the heart of cultural and political life in China. Among the broad modern avenues and picturesque traditional hutongs, you will find the nation’s central government departments, leading universities, medical schools, and centers of art and media. The program is affiliated with Beijing University, one of the premier institutions of higher education in China, with a student population of more than 30,000.
The Courses/Program: Areas of study include the core course in Chinese Society and Culture, which combines lectures, readings, discussions, and the writing assignments of the Fieldbook with the more experimental program components of dorm stays with Chinese roommates, family stays, and study trips. Lectures given by scholars and specialists introduce you to a range of topics including history, politics, economics, population, environment and rural China. This course also includes complementary instruction in Chinese calligraphy and tai chi, a simplified Yang style of 24 movements. The Chinese language is offered at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. The classes emphasize proficiency in speaking and listening, as well as the reading and writing of Chinese characters. Elective courses are also offered. Designed to help you further explore one aspect of Chinese culture, they include special topics seminars, directed independent study projects (DISP), internships, and arts apprenticeships.
Some electives require prerequisite knowledge or experience. The program strongly recommends you select a project that involves field research, oral interviews, participant observation and other techniques that facilitate cultural immersion over those involving primarily library research.
Study trips are also available. To deepen your understanding of topics covered in the core course, you will travel to various locations in China. Destinations may change from semester to semester, but the two major trips aim to expose you to one of China’s remote provinces where you can observe the daily life of ethnic minority groups and a trip to the heartland of Han civilization to visit historic sites and cultural attractions. Past trips have included: Hangzho and Jiangnan area, Xi’an, Wutaishan, Kaili in Guizhou, and the Gannan Tibetan Region.
Housing: During most of the semester, you will live on campus with Chinese roommates. You will also have the privilege of homestays with a family in Beijing and a farming family in a rural village. Urban families live in small apartments and speak little or no English. Rural families live in small brick homes with limited modern amenities. There is little chance for privacy at family stays. Though there are challenges in adjustment, most students often consider the homestays as the most transformative dimension of the program.
Duration/Deadlines:
• Fall Semester: August to December/ Application Deadline: March 15th
• Spring Semester: February to June/ Application Deadline: October 15th
Requirements:
• 3.0 GPA
Program Cost Includes: Tuition, room, board, program-related study trips, a portion of the round trip airfare, evacuation insurance provided through the international student identity card (ISIC), and the overall supervision and administration of the program. Students should budget for their own personal expenses, passport fees, visa fees, medical insurance, etc. Please note: The information on this sheet is for reference purposes only. It is your responsibility to confirm details and deadlines.
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Program: Syracuse Beijing Center / Syracuse University
Location: Beijing, China
Is This Program Right For You? Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China, and boasts almost 14 million residents. Continuously inhabited for over 3,000 years, the city has witnessed devastating fires, grand architectural accomplishments, countless invasions, and the rise and fall of imperial dynasties. Through it all, the city and its people have embraced each new era with energy and grace to emerge a profoundly rich and complex global force.
The Beijing of today is a cultural showcase – and the center of China’s tremendously powerful political and economic scene. In just the last twenty years, the city has undergone relentless modernization. But look beyond the wide boulevards, glittering hotels and high-rises. You’ll still find many historical and cultural treasures that reveal the awe-inspiring story of China.
The new SU Beijing Program, located at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University, offers students at all language levels an opportunity to study the complexities or contemporary China across disciplines – including history and geography, political science and international relations, and communications.
The Courses/Program: The Beijing program begins with a two-week field study course taught on site in Xi’an, Beijing, and Shanghai, China: Past, Present, and Future. It provides an introduction to contemporary China, its diversity of peoples, and the challenges of fast-track modernization. A one-week pre-semester Chinese language and culture course allows students to interact in Chinese (required for students at beginning and intermediate language levels). For the remainder of the semester, students are placed in appropriate-level language courses (which meet for three hours a day, five days a week), and they enroll in two to three additional courses from a selection of courses in political science, international relations communications, anthropology, and history. Students with advanced oral and written proficiency in Mandarin may apply for enrollment in regularly offered Tsinghua courses.
Housing: Students live in residence halls on Tsinghua’s modern campus. All rooms are small singles, with private bathrooms. SU students have access to the same facilities as local students – library, health clinic, student lounges, computer clusters, and recreational/gym facilities. For meals, you can eat at any of the inexpensive student dining halls on campus. The local train station is a 15-minute walk from Tsinghua, and connects tothe subway trains running to the city center. The residence rooms are wired for the internet. Syracuse recommends that you bring a laptop for use in your room.
Duration/Deadlines:
• Fall Semester/Academic Year Duration: About 17 weeks / Application Deadline: March 15th
• Spring Semester Duration: About 17 weeks / Application Deadline: October 15th
Requirements:
• 3.0 GPA.
Program Cost Includes: Students pay regular SU semester tuition, plus a program fee that covers all travel and accommodations for the two-week, pre-semester seminar, single room accommodation at Tsinghua for the semester, semester field trips in and around Beijing, and other services. Students pay for their own meals. Visit suabroad.syr.edu for more information. Please note: The information on this sheet is for reference purposes only. It is your responsibility to confirm details and deadlines.
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Program: Middlebury China Center and Zhejiang University of Technology / Middlebury College
Location: Hangzhou, China
Is this Program Right for You? The Middlebury School in China is located approximately 100 miles from Shanghai in eastern China. Hangzhou has approximately seven million inhabitants and boasts at least 20 universities, an important emerging technology industry, and temples, pagodas, and museums acclaimed throughout China and the world. Additionally, beautiful West Lake, made famous in Chinese literature, offers a scenic respite from the activity of city life. With few international students and rich opportunities for cultural immersion, Hangzhou offers an ideal setting for Chinese language study.
The program is designed to immerse every student as completely as possible in both the language and the culture of China. All course work is taught in Mandarin. The program strongly encourages students to pursue co-curricular activities in which they have a particular interest. Students have the opportunity to participate in sports, learn the Ehru (two-stringed Chinese violin) or Dizi (wooden flute), as well as take dance, cooking, and other classes. Because the experience of a full academic year abroad is greater — linguistically, culturally, and academically — than the experience gained during a shorter period, Middlebury College strongly recommends that undergraduates enroll for the full year whenever possible.
Students are asked to adhere to the spirit of the Language Pledge, which is a commitment to use Mandarin at all times. All students are strongly encouraged to spend a summer at a Middlebury College Language School before embarking on a semester or a year abroad. Students have found that this gives them the skills and confidence they need to live more independently in the host country and to enter more easily into co-curricular activities that bring them into direct contact with people in the host country.
The Courses/Program: Middlebury's program in China presupposes the student's general academic competence and sufficient ability in all four Chinese language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening). The curriculum was designed for the specific needs of high intermediate and advanced Chinese language students. All students are required to take the One-on-One Content-Based Tutorial and One-on-Two Speech and Pronunciation Class. In addition, all students choose two elective classes from among those that are offered. All courses are conducted entirely in Mandarin. Qualified students in their second semester may direct enroll in Zhejiang University of Technology (ZUT) for one of their courses alongside local students. Located in the center of the city, the university enrolls approximately 15,000 Chinese students on its welcoming, vibrant campus.
Five semesters or 2 years plus summer Chinese Language School are strongly preferred. Students considered to need further preparation before enrolling in the School in China may be required to enroll in the 9-week Chinese School summer session on the Middlebury campus. All students are expected to enroll in a Chinese course the semester preceding the term or year abroad.
Housing: Students live in a campus dormitory. Each student is paired with a Chinese student from ZUT. Chinese students are pre-selected, and every effort is made to match Middlebury and ZUT students with compatible interests and habits.
Duration/Deadlines:
• Fall Semester: late August – mid-December / Application Deadline: March 15th
• Spring Semester: late January – late May / Application Deadline: October 1st
Requirements:
• 3.0 GPA
• Must enroll in Chinese course the semester prior to entering program or attend summer Language School
• 4 semesters of Chinese including one content course
• B average in Chinese courses
Program Cost includes: Tuition, housing is billed separately to individual students directly by Middlebury College. For more information: www.middlebury.edu. Catalogues are available in ISAP’s Resource Rooms. Please note: The information on this sheet is for reference purposes only. It is your responsibility to confirm details and deadlines.
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Program: Syracuse Hong Kong Center / Syracuse University
Location: Hong Kong, China
Is This Program Right For You? Has the mystique of the Far East captured your imagination, but the prospect of culture shock tempered your dreams of visiting? Then Hong Kong may be your answer. With its mixture of Western and Eastern values, culture and traditions, Hong Kong is your ideal gateway to China and all of Asia. The world’s second-busiest port and third-largest commercial center, Hong Kong is an ultramodern city whose affluent, service-oriented economy boasts more than 40,000 companies and a major stock exchange. And though daily life in Hong Kong is distinctly fast-paced, you’ll soon discover deep cultural connections that center around family, friends, celebration, and tradition.
China, the world’s fastest-growing consumer market, is in the midst of unprecedented change. And as Hong Kong continues to move forward as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, you’ll not only study but also participate within a political landscape and marketplace that will be as important to the 21st century as the U.S. was to the 20th.
The Syracuse academic program, hosted by City University of Hong Kong, is designed to allow students to complete 12-18 credit hours of coursework in economics, political science, history, religion, film, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), or business. In addition, their partnership with City University delivers access to more than 80 Bachelor’s degrees as well as 50 postgraduate programs. Field study, guided research, portfolios, and intensive internships are key components of the modular Syracuse University program.
The Courses/Program: The SU Academic program features three distinct options. Whichever you choose, you’ll enjoy the support of administrative staff at the SU Center while participating in activities designed to augment the classroom experience.
Option I: Enroll in SU Center Courses. This option consists of three distinct modules taught by SU abroad faculty: A) Two-week field study seminar, China: Past, Present, and Future. B) 10 weeks of intensive classroom instruction. Students take three or four courses from a selection in business, film, economics, political science, history, and Mandarin Chinese. C) Five week interdisciplinary course, Southeast Asia in the World Political Economy; or guided research on marketing or financial enterprise in Asia; or an intensive internship.
Option II: Enroll in SU Center and City University Courses (Fall semester only): Students enroll in the field study seminar in China and combine coursework at the SU Hong Kong Center with enrollment in City University classes.
Option III: Direct placement at City University: Students take all their coursework at City University alongside Chinese students. Fall semester students may enroll in the field-study seminar; participants in the spring have the option of extending their semester by five weeks to enroll in an internship.
Housing: During your semester, your home is the NTT House, an international dormitory for visiting students. You’ll live and learn beside students from the Chinese mainland and around the world. Option III students may be placed at a City University dorm. Inexpensive meals may be taken at City University’s cafeteria or at local restaurants, takeouts, and noodle shops. City University is located in Kowloon, only a few minutes’ walk to public transportation.
Duration/Deadlines:
• Fall Semester/Academic Year Duration: About 17 weeks / Application Deadline: March 15th
• Spring Semester Duration: About 17 weeks / Application Deadline: October 10th
Requirements:
• Option I: 3.0 GPA.
• Option II: 3.0 GPA. Admission to individual courses is contingent upon meeting qualifications outlined by City University.
Program Cost Includes: Students pay regular SU semester tuition, plus a program fee that covers housing on campus at the NTT House residence hall. Meals are not included. For the two-week traveling seminar, the program fee covers the cost of transportation, hotels, and six group meals. Option II and III students may have to pay an increased program fee to cover additional housing costs, and meals where applicable, because the local university calendars differ from that of the Syracuse University program in these countries. Visit suabroad.syr.edu for more information. Please note: The information on this sheet is for reference purposes only. It is your responsibility to confirm details and deadlines.
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Program: East China Normal University / CIEE
Location: Shanghai, China
Is this Program Right for You? Are you interested in international affairs and Chinese language? The CIEE Study Center at East China Normal University in Shanghai is the ideal program for students wishing to study intensive Mandarin language while gaining a solid understanding of international and domestic affairs from a Chinese perspective. The program offers various area studies courses in international affairs, economics, and modern Chinese history, and intensive language training at one of the most highly rated language-training centers in Shanghai. Language classes are offered for beginner to advanced levels.
Established in 1951, East China Normal University is one of China's key institutions of higher learning and is best known for its liberal arts and sciences programs. The university enrolls more than 11,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. The university is located on the bank of the Liwa River. The East China Normal University campus is large and comprised of many buildings that one would find on any university campus including a large library, classroom and administrative buildings, dormitories, extensive playing fields, and various small shops and restaurants.
The Courses/Program: The goals of this program are threefold: to provide three academic courses taught in English to give each student a solid foundation in Chinese international affairs, economics, and history; to provide each student with innovative Chinese language training in small classes with teachers trained to teach Chinese as a second language; and to offer immersion into the local Shanghai community. The program offers a Chinese host family option, internship and teaching opportunities, and weekly group excursions into Shanghai and the surrounding areas of the city.
The program is designed to provide participants with a deeper understanding of China as it emerges to take a leading role in the global economy. Students are introduced to the language, culture, history, and politics that shape and mold the economic development of the nation. Courses include language, Chinese history and society, politics and economic development, and international relations.
While there is no language prerequisite, all students are required to study Mandarin Chinese, which is offered at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels for CIEE program students. A Business Chinese course is also offered at the advanced level. Area studies courses taught in English include China's Economic Reforms, Seminar on Chinese Business Issues and Practices, Modern Chinese History and Society, and China's International Relations. Field trips and guest lectures are integrated into the academic curriculum to provide a deeper understanding of what is learned in the classroom.
Students attend afternoon intensive language classes Monday through Thursday. The language classes are small and students are encouraged to participate actively. The area studies courses usually take place in the mornings from Monday through Thursday. Course related fieldtrips are usually held on Fridays and sometimes on the weekends.
Housing: Participants of the Shanghai program can select one of the following three housing options:
Off-campus apartments: The off-campus apartments are located in a managed apartment facility a few minutes outside the back gate to the campus. Each apartment contains three or four bedrooms; a spacious living room with couches, coffee table, television, and communal round-table with four chairs; two private baths; and a kitchen with refrigerator, stove, and washing machine. The apartment complex also includes 24-hour security, a swimming pool, weight-room with some cardiovascular equipment, and a restaurant.
On-campus student dormitories: The international student dormitory is located next to the College of International Chinese Studies. It is within walking distance to the Jin Hua Building where students attend afternoon Chinese classes. Each room has two single beds, a desk, a desk lamp, private bath, television, and shelving for clothes.
Chinese host families: Chinese host families are available within a 5-10 minute bike ride from the campus of East China Normal University. Students are placed with a Chinese family in a three or four-bedroom apartment. Studentshave their own room in the apartment and share the living room, kitchen, and bathroom with the host family. Students will be invited to most family meals, but should budget for their own lunches and most weekend meals.
Duration/Deadlines:
• Fall Semester (15 weeks): mid August – mid December / Application Deadline: April 1st
• Spring Semester (16 weeks): after Lunar New Year - mid June / Application Deadline: November 1st
Requirements: (Language of instruction is English, Chinese) 3.0 GPA
• No language prerequisite; 1 Chinese Area Studies course recommended; Graduate students accepted.
Program Cost Includes: Tuition, housing, all meals, orientation, organized cultural activities, pre-departure advising, and insurance. Visa not included. For more information: www.ciee.org. Catalogues are available in ISAP’s Resource Rooms. Please note: The information on this sheet is for reference purposes only. It is your responsibility to confirm details and deadlines.
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