CET

January Term, Spring, Summer, Fall 2015

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INTENSIVE CHINESE LANGUAGE IN BEIJING, HARBIN OR KUNMING

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…To sum it up, I love China. It certainly presents many cultural challenges to conquer, but CET provides us with the resources and help we need to learn to live like the Chinese. It’s up to us, however, to perfect our own tones, master chopstick use, and sing Chinese pop songs at karaoke night.

— Matthias Fostvedt, University of Idaho, Harbin Fall 2013

HARBIN

BEIJING

KUNMING

Chinese Language BEIJING

Beijing is where it all happens—history, politics, arts, business. This is the city of China’s movers and shakers.

Operating since 1982 Spring, summer, fall:

no prerequisite JanTerm: 3 semesters

of Chinese required

Intensive

HARBIN

Harbin is your chance for true immersion: beautifully standard Mandarin and few English-speaking foreigners.

Design your own independent study

Spring, summer, fall 4 semesters of

Chinese required

KUNMING

Kunming: a beautiful backdrop for Chinese language learning—blue skies, green scenery and a gentle climate.

Ethnically & biologically diverse province

Summer only 2 semesters of

Chinese required

GET READY TO IMMERSEEach program offers INTENSIVE COURSEWORK, LOCAL ROOMMATES and a full-time Chinese LANGUAGE PLEDGE. Your Chinese will improve by leaps and bounds. Period.

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SUPPORT FROM EXPERIENCED FACULTYCET has operated intensive Chinese language programs for over 30 years and is known for its superior teaching staff. Instructors are skilled and supportive, giving students exactly what they need to excel. In the words of one former student, “The teachers here are amazing…they are very patient with you and yet at the same time push you harder and harder.”

EXCURSIONS: SEEING OTHER PARTS OF CHINACET takes students to places they might not go on their own—an organic farm, a countryside village, an overnight train trip to another city. Roommates (and sometimes teachers!) attend these excursions, making them prime opportunities to get to know new places and new people, all in Chinese.

GETTING TO FLUENCY, ONE STEP AT A TIMEEvery part of the program is about improving language skills. Classes are small, and expose students to “real” Chinese—assignments might require ordering at a restaurant, calling an airline for flight times, or interviewing retirees. One-on-one’s and one-on-two’s give students exceptional levels of individual attention. And the Chinese language pledge, while challenging, means lightning-speed progress.

ACTIVITIES: THE LIGHTER SIDE Students and their roommates unwind on the weekends with activities arranged by CET. The possibilities are endless: movie nights, ping pong classes, karaoke sing-a-longs, hiking trips, picnics by the lake, art gallery crawls, and a favorite of Beijing students: yoga on the Great Wall.

ChinaStudying & Living in

Each student shares a dormitory room with a Chinese roommate. Many student and roommate pairs quickly become friends, and students soon find that their roommates are goldmines

of insider information—where to get the best Beijing hot pot, the latest pop song to get a million hits on Youku (China’s YouTube), how to haggle at the antiques market.

We chatted about Pingyao, our impressions of the city, traveling in Europe, our families, our friends, our love lives, our ice cream preferences…. This was the real gem of the program. I may not have understood every little thing that was said (and I know I didn’t always make sense to her), but I got to connect with my roommate.

— Andrea Patton, College of Wooster, Beijing Spring 2013

RoommatesChinese

“THE BEST PART OF THE PROGRAM” – CET alumni

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spring or fall semesterAcademics in the

BEIJING

INTENSIVE CHINESE LANGUAGE 20 hours/week. 17 to 18 credits.

Warm up for your spring semester with the January Term in Beijing. Intensive Chinese Language meets for 100 hours with 5 credits. Focus is on speaking skills. Open to students with at least 3 semesters of Chinese.

Need more options? CET partners with Middlebury College to operate the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools in China in Beijing, Hangzhou and Kunming. Semester programs for intermediate and advanced learners. www.middlebury.edu/sa/china

Add JanTerm to any spring program

Small group lecture Small group drill and discussion One-on-one practice

One-on-two drill Character writing, TV, literature,

business or newspaper reading

ONE-ON-TWO DRILL56 hours. 2 credits.

TWO SMALL GROUP CLASSES84 hours each. 6 credits each.

Business Chinese Classical Chinese Conversation Composition Literature Newspaper

INDEPENDENT STUDY56 hours. 3 credits.

Sample topics: Adoption and Gender Inequality Chinese Soft Power in the 3rd World Etymology of Chinese Characters Traditional Chinese Medicine Urban Development & China’s

Environment Food Culture in China Design your own

HARBIN

Open to all levels, beginning through advanced.

Open to students with at least 4 semesters of Chinese.

Skip a whole year of Chinese language after you return home.

BEIJING INTENSIVE CHINESE LANGUAGE

160 total hours. 8 recommended credits.

Open to all levels, beginning through advanced.

KUNMING INTENSIVE CHINESE LANGUAGE

160 total hours. 8 recommended credits.

Open to students with 2 semesters of Chinese.

summer term in ChinaSpend your

INDEPENDENT STUDY

32 hours. 2 credits.

ONE-ON-TWO DRILL

32 hours. 1 credit.

TWO SMALL GROUP CLASSES

48 hours each. 3 credits each.

HARBIN

Open to students with at least 4 semesters of Chinese.

CREDIT, TRANSCRIPTS & HOST UNIVERSITYCET partners with Capital Normal University (Beijing), Yunnan University (Kunming) and Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin). CET and the partner institution issue official transcripts that list each course taken with the corresponding grade earned and hours attended. For more information about credits, transcripts, host universities, and program oversight and administration, visit the CET website at: www.cetacademicprograms.com.

ADMISSIONS PROCEDURESCET’s admissions requirements include an online application form, a transcript, a foreign language writing sample, one letter of recommendation and an application fee that is applied to the tuition balance upon acceptance. Some other materials, including a valid passport, may also be required depending on the program. CET is committed to providing equal opportunity to study abroad and does not discriminate. More information may be found online at: www.cetacademicprograms.com.

WHO IS CET?CET Academic Programs is a study abroad organization based in Washington, DC that has been designing and administering innovative educational programs abroad since 1982. Originally “China Educational Tours,” CET began operations in Beijing, later expanding to other cities in China and then to other countries around the world. Today, CET offers semester and summer study abroad programs in Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Tunisia and Vietnam, as well as short-term, customized programs worldwide. CET is known for high academic standards, innovative approaches to teaching and careful student management. CET programs integrate students into their overseas communities and lead them to create lasting relationships with their local hosts. CET is the only US provider to house its students with local roommates in each of its locations. As an environmentally conscientious organization, CET adopts locally appropriate measures in its centers worldwide to reduce its carbon footprint and contribute to sustainable practices wherever possible. Staffed by over 50 full-time employees in the United States and overseas, CET currently sends around 1100 US students abroad annually.

Photo Credits: P2: Sophia Jin, College of the Holy Cross. P7 Left: David Elber, Middlebury College. All other photos courtesy of CET Staff.

CONTACT US CET Academic Programs | 1920 N Street NW, Suite 200 | Washington, DC 20036 1.800.225.4262 | cet@academic-travel.com | www.cetacademicprograms.com

SEMESTER JANUARY TERM 2015 SPRING 2015 SUMMER 2015 FALL 2015

Application Deadline 10/15/14 11/01/14 03/01/15 05/01/15

Program Length 4 weeks 16 weeks 9 weeks 16 weeks

Arrival Date 12/30/14 02/04/15 06/10/15 08/26/15

Departure Date 02/01/15 05/29/15 08/10/15 12/14/15

Program Fee$4,290 $13,990 $7,190 $13,990

Recommended Credits

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