Study tours

The program incorporates visits to appropriate sites, such as a Buddhist nunnery, a stained-glass factory, village shrines, temples, and a Chinese high school.  Additionally, in the middle of the semester, the director leads students on a study tour around China. During this trek, students see the Terra-cotta warriors, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Ming Tombs, the Shanghai Museum and much more.

Service Component

As part of the Contemporary Society course, students engage in service work. This is likely to include either teaching English to schoolchildren on a weekly basis (altogether, eight weeks) or assisting at a Children’s Home one Saturday a month.

Classroom Resources
The majority of the courses are taught in English by Chinese professors so that students may receive the Chinese point of view on major issues.  Dr. Jay Lundelius, director of the CSP, oversees the administration of all courses and assessment. He also teaches the course in Intercultural Communication, the seminar course on Chinese history, and co-teaches (with a Chinese sociology professor) the elective course on Eastern Philosophy & Religions.