Programs by Country: China
BEIJING: Alliance for Global Education
Traditional | Beijing, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
China Now: Development, Politics and Social Change
This program offers students 12 class hours per week of Chinese language during the fall and spring semesters as well as the opportunity to examine modern China through courses in English in several disciplines including economics, film studies, women’s studies, and cultural studies. Students are encouraged to consider spending their second term in China in a different Alliance program to deepen their knowledge of China’s regional diversity.
BEIJING: Beijing Institute of Technology
Traditional | Beijing, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
BEIJING: CAPA
Traditional | Beijing, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
The CAPA Beijing Program offers students a unique opportunity to begin learning Mandarin Chinese, or to advance their existing Mandarin language skills rapidly throughout the semester. The program also has courses taught in English examining Chinese history and culture, and examining the role of China as an emerging global city. An academically challenging curriculum empowers participants to explore the history and traditions of this rich and ancient culture. All CAPA students will take a placement exam to determine their level of Chinese. All Chinese levels integrate sections on listening, reading, writing, and speaking.
BEIJING: Freshman Summer Business Program
Traditional | Beijing, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
The D'Amore-McKim School of Business (DMSB) is offering a business-specific program for freshman business majors this summer 2013.
BEIJING: IES
Traditional | Beijing, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Language Intensive Program
With small classes, a high-quality language curriculum, and daily tutorials, this program option offers students who have already begun Chinese language studies the opportunity to rapidly expand their knowledge of spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Students round out their schedule with a selection of area studies courses taught in English, in addition to travel to remote locations in China and the option of a for-credit internship.
Contemporary Issues in China Program
For students who wish to explore China in-depth, but do not have previous Chinese language experience, the Contemporary Issues in China Program features a series of advanced-level courses on the history, economics, and culture of China. Each course incorporates extensive field trips and travel directly into the curriculum. This new program is an ideal choice for students with little previous exposure to China.
HONG KONG: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Traditional | Hong Kong, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
This program, through the International Asian Study Programs (IASP) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), offers students an opportunity to live and study in this exciting, fast paced city while it defines its new role in modern China. Students are able to select courses, taught in English, from both the IASP curriculum and the regular course offerings of the Chinese University. Students fluent in Mandarin and/or Cantonese language may choose to take courses exclusively taught in these dialects. Classroom discussions, field trips, and every day Chinese life also enable students to immerse themselves in the culture and see, first-hand, the dramatic changes that are taking place each day.
Multiple Locations: Chinese Language and Culture (Summer 1) (Closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Beijing, China
Information Session: October 30. 415SH, at 6:00pm – 7:15pm.
Faculty: Prof. Hua Dong, (h.dong@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Term: Summer I
Courses: LANG 1990 Chinese Language Immersion (multiple levels) & CLTR4944 Dialogue of Civilizations: Globalization, Humanities and Culture
Program Description:
Now in its sixth summer, the language-intensive China Dialogue based in Nanjing offers students a chance to improve their Mandarin proficiency in the best possible way – by speaking it in China. You will not only use it to find your way around some of the most famous landmarks in the world – the Great Wall and Forbidden City, for example – but in daily interactions with local residents while you live and study Chinese at Nanjing University. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to use the language you learn in a workplace setting – maybe a magazine editorial office or relief agency headquarters – while you take part in a Chinese internship program related to your specific major. You will also be able to witness first-hand how China’s, environment, culture, economy and politics in both urban and rural areas are being affected by its progress; you will speak with students, businesspeople, activists, workers and artists about their jobs, lives, and perspectives on the issues facing China and its relationship with the world today; all this while putting the Chinese you learn in the classroom to good use. Best of all, because of the small class sizes, local language partners and always-available evening tutors, this program is open to students of all majors and levels of language proficiency.
The program looks like this:
- We arrive in Beijing, the last imperial capital and the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics, filled with landmarks both ancient and modern. In the five days of our stay in Beijing, we will explore the city and experience its unique culture, speaking with various NGOs about the issues of rural migrant workers in the city and cultural preservation in the face of ever-increasing urbanization.
- We then move south to Nanjing, ancient imperial capital, site of the Nanking Massacre, and now at the forefront of China’s transition toward global power. Here we will settle into student life at Nanjing University, one of the country’s premier Sino-Anglo exchange institutions. While in Nanjing, each student will stay with a Chinese family for a week. Besides daily 4-hour language classes, we will hold dialogues with speakers from the media, expatriate community, professional firms and peer college students. In the final weeks of our stay, students will participate in internships/job shadow around the city for a total of 30-40 hours.
- After the midterm exam, we will take a long weekend retreat to Anhui, and stay in a rural village with well-preserved historic architecture and culture in Anhui. It is also the home of the China House in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
- After the final exam, we will relocate to Shanghai, the host city of the 2010 World Expo. Here, at the pinnacle of China’s economic progress. During the four days, we will visit landmarks and multinational corporations, meet with business people, government officials, entrepreneurs, architects and artists to get a feel for what the future of the city and indeed the country might look like, and to expand the network for your future career as well. We will also meet with the hosts of ChinesePod.com, a wonderful resource for Chinese learners.
Because you will be completely immersed in Chinese language and culture, this Dialogue is not for the faint of heart. However, the results are among the best of any Chinese program offered at Northeastern; former students will tell you that the experience is easily worth the hard work. You can’t understand China without learning Chinese, and you can’t learn Chinese without understanding China. This program is a fast-track to both. We look forward to receiving your application. For more information, check out the daily blogs by the students from the past years (http://neuinchina.blogspot.com [2010], http://neuinchina2011.blogspot.com [2011]), and http://neuinchina2012.blogspot.com [2012]), or contact Prof. Hua Dong, h.dong@neu.edu.
Multiple Locations: Chinese Language and Culture (Summer 2) (Closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Kunming, China
Info session: Tuesday, Nov 6th, 6pm, Ryder Hall 277
Please RSVP to this event by emailing q.cai@neu.edu
Faculty: Prof. Qinghong Cai (q.cai@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Program Description:
The Summer II China Dialogue program that takes place in 3 exciting Chinese cities offers intensive and immersive Chinese language training including practical introduction to Chinese history, culture and businesses.
Students who enrolled in this program will spend 34 days in Kunming, China; 3 days in Taipei, Taiwan and 2 days in Hong Kong, SAR of China. Both Hong Kong and Taipei are famous international cities known as two of the four Asian little dragons in East Asia for its economic successes. Hence, students will have the opportunity to experience Chinese culture as a whole in 3 distinctively different regions either developed or developing with each of their own unique governmental structures and different Chinese culture variations as well as customs within this one program.
This program will be based in the Chinese Language Center of Yunnan University, situated in Kunming, which is also known as “City of Eternal Spring”, famous for its perpetual spring like weather with blooms and lush vegetation all year round. It will certainly offer you a not so typical summer.
Participating students will be offered with 100 hours of practical Chinese classes (equivalence to one semester Chinese course in NEU including CHNS 1101), which is 4 hours per weekday, and 50 hours of cultural classes, which is 2 hours per weekday. In addition, each student will be accompanied by a Mandarin native speaker as a language partner whose major is teaching Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language, throughout their 34-day stay in Kunming except during class lessons. They will have lots of opportunities to interact in depth and practice their Chinese with their language partners.
The 2-hour per weekday cultural classes in this program offers interesting introduction to one of the oldest and most complex culture in the world. This includes activities such as Introduction to Chinese Martial Arts, Calligraphy, Chinese Paintings, Chinese Tea Ceremony, Chinese songs and so on. We also provide optional workshops, such as Chinese Business language and culture workshop, HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) workshop, and etc.
Kunming’s average highs are around 75 °F in summer, thus Kunming is the most favorable city weather-wise during summer time in China.
Besides the 150 hours of practical Chinese and Cultural lessons mentioned above, during weekends (per program schedule), you will get to visit nature wonders and historical sites such as Stone Forest, Dianchi Lake, and Minority Ethnic Villages, Western Hill and Yun Tong Temple. You will also get to make cultural and business field trips to Yunnan Chinese Medicinal Hospital, Kunming Steel Factory, Yunnan Cigarette Factory and Yunnan Buddhism Institute. In addition, there will be an organized 3-day tour to Lijiang/Shangri-La(Qinghai-Tibet Plateau).
In this program, we may also arrange additional post-dialogue trips to Shanghai. These trips will present opportunities for students to test and practice their Chinese after 34 days of intensive Chinese lessons in Kunming.
You are welcome to access Summer II China Dialogue Presentation on YouTube via: http://www.youtube.com/user/NEUChinaDialogue#p/u
SHANGHAI: Alliance for Global Education – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Traditional | Shanghai, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Designed for students interested in international business and economics, this program offers undergraduates the unparalleled opportunity to study Chinese language, international business, and economic development in Asia's financial center. Click here to view a full listing of textbooks and lessons by Alliance program and Chinese language level.
Students participate in carefully-designed activities and experiential study trips that provide a first-hand encounter with China's rapidly changing business environment. Students may also engage in an internship.
Classes are based at the International Cultural Exchange School (ICES) of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. ICES is devoted to the education of foreign students and aims to train students with a background in international economics or management.
SHANGHAI: CIEE
Traditional | Shanghai, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
Known for its economic prowess and long history of foreign influence, Shanghai is the country's financial and industrial capital. The last decade has seen massive development in this metropolis of 18 million people; construction of the city's infrastructure and transportation system is constant. With an elevated light rail, the world's first commercial high-speed maglev train, and five subway lines, the city boasts one of the fastest growing rapid transit systems in the world. Those in search of old Shanghai, however, can still find the legacy of its magnificent past.
XI’AN: Alliance for Global Education
Traditional | Xi'an, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Daisy Biddle (d.biddle@neu.edu)
This program offers students 12 class hours per week of Chinese language as well as courses taught in English in several disciplines including ancient Chinese history, contemporary issues, art and anthropology. Students may enroll for a semester, summer, or academic year, or a combination of a semester and summer term. Students are encouraged to consider spending their second term in China in a different Alliance program to deepen their knowledge of China's regional diversity.
Xiamen University
Departmental Exchange, Traditional | Xiamen, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
Xiamen University enjoys a well-formed, high-quality and creative faculty of more than 4,900 members among whom there are over 2,282 professional teachers and 1,329 of them are associate professors and professors. In recent years Xiamen University places more emphasis on attracting academic talents, consolidating academic groups and building innovative groups. More and more academic leaders, internationally well-renowned scholars and recently-emerging young scholars come and join Xiamen University.
ZHEJIANG: Zhejiang University
Traditional | Zhejiang, China
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
The program offered through the International College of Zhejiang University allows students to undertake a full semester of Chinese language courses for language acquisition or English courses.