Recommended & Required Credits
Alum have
You. Living in a foreign culture.
pursued a wide variety of tracks post-CSP. Many have come back to China to teach English, study Chinese, or go into business. Others have gone into the Peace
Learning a very foreign language. Exposed to different values and habits. The
Corps, engaged in
alone. Dealing with and responding to culture-shock is best done in community.
center of more attention than you’ve ever been before. But you’re not doing this That’s why the CSP emphasizes life together. You connect with the group
various kinds of
through Bible study, worship and discussion. You talk about your faith, living in China and what this means for life back home. It makes all the difference when
service work, or
you’re doing this with fellow believers.
made a career in
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the U.S. related to China Studies.
Students choose between two concentrations: China Studies and International Business. In addition to the core courses, each student will take concentration-specific courses or electives.
Core CoursE All students take courses in Chinese Language, History, Contemporary Society and Intercultural Communication. Here is how the course credits add up for each concentration:
C H I N A S T U D I ES C O N C E N T R A T I O N Chinese I (or Advanced Chinese) Chinese History Intercultural Communication Contemporary Society
3 3 3 3
Total Credits
12
E l e cti v e s Chinese II Dimensions of East Asian Culture Eastern Philosophy & Religions Chinese Painting Tai Chi (Physical Education)
3 3 3 1 1
Total Credits
15-18
The China Studies Program enables students to engage China’s ancient history and society from an insider’s perspective. While immersed in Chinese culture, students participate in courses on the historical, cultural, religious, geographic and economic realities of this strategic and populous nation. Students choose between two concentrations: China Studies and International Business. The
China Studies Concentration students must take at least one 3-credit elective. They may also take either Chinese Painting and/or Tai Chi, 1-credit, electives. Note: Dimensions of East Asian Culture includes both of these 1-credit electives, as well as hands-on Chinese cooking and lectures in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
internship in China. All students also study Mandarin—contemporary
B US I N ESS C O N C E N T R A T I O N
standard Chinese. This interdisciplinary, cross-cultural program enables
Chinese I (or Advanced Chinese) Chinese History Intercultural Communication Contemporary Society International Business in China Business Internship
2–3 3 3 3 3 3
Total Credits
17–18
business concentration provides the possibility of an international business
students to communicate and understand the unique culture and people of China from an informed, Christ-centered perspective. The program recommends that students be granted the equivalent of 15-18 hours of credits by their home institution.
B u s in e s s I nt e r n s hi p The Internship Coordinator will make every attempt to match students to internships that will provide meaningful work experience for three weeks. Students will work full-time (40+hrs/week) usually with Chinese companies, occasionally with Western companies. Currently, nearly all of these internship placements are in Xiamen city. In the spring semester, it is occasionally possible for an internship to extend anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. If such a match isn’t possible, you still could take any one of 3-credit electives: Chinese II, Dimensions of East Asian Culture, or Eastern Philosophy & Religions (see above).
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S e r v ic e C o m p o n e nt As part of the Contemporary Society course, students engage in a one-week service project in a more rural part of China. Students teach English to schoolchildren on a daily basis and/or do odd jobs that are helpful to our hosts (such as house-painting, ditch-digging, pouring cement, etc.). Overwhelmingly, students view this project as the highlight of the semester.
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southern regions of China—a wide sampling of a huge and diverse country. Forbidden City) and Shanghai. Overall, you’ll spend time in the northwest, northeast and (the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, Tian’anmen Square, the module), a week in rural China for a service project, and a week touring sites in Beijing The CSP also spends two weeks in the ancient capital city of Xi’an (as part of the History Xiamen University is located by the South China Sea in sub-tropical southeastern China. students are then hosted by Xiamen University for ten weeks throughout the semester.
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that complement each other for a full life. and sour, activity and passivity, are opposites expectations, generosity and obligation, sweet is in understanding that low profile and high the way the Chinese mind perceives life. It you’d never imagined. Dynamic balance is will see your world view changing in ways teary goodbye with Chinese friends, you first time you eat baozi for breakfast till your at the China Studies Program. From the You will never be the same after your semester
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China is just like the United States – if you turned it upside down and backwards.