Summer Intensive Chinese Language

BEIJING, CHINA

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Program Overview

With 22 million Chinese-speaking people to share the city with, Beijing is the place to give your Mandarin skills a major boost this summer. With premier instruction, tutoring, homestay, travel, and awe-inspiring icons like the Great Wall and Forbidden City, you'll pack a year's worth of learning into one unforgettable summer.

Unique Experiences

MAKE MARKED LANGUAGE PROGRESS

with 20 hours of intensive classroom instruction plus 3 hours of tutoring each week.

GET AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE CITY

with visits to treasured places only locals know about.

VOLUNTEER OR PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES AND LECTURES

that illuminate coursework and heighten your understanding of Chinese culture.

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Excursions & Activities

• Visit incredible sites loaded with history, like Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.
• Choose a theme-study weekend and expand your horizons. You might visit the birthplace of Confucius in Qufu, as you examine traditional Chinese philosophy; visit the bustling port city Dalian to explore urbanization; or visit a village and hike in northern Shanxi province to dig into the environment and rural governance.
• See contemporary art, and musical and theatric performances, or take a day hike near Beijing.
• Learn about contemporary Chinese issues like international economics, cross-cultural communication, sustainability, and film with a special series of lectures given by scholars and other experts.

Projects

• Language Tutoring. To ensure progress in fluency, each student is paired with a PKU graduate student or CIEE instructor for three one-on-one tutorials and one one-to-three Language and Culture Practicum session each week. Tutors practice conversation and help with homework.
• Expert Talk Series: Regular lectures in English by experts in their field.

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What's Included

• Tuition
• Housing
• Advising before you depart to set goals and answer questions
• Optional on-site airport meet-and-greet
• Orientation – an introduction to Chinese culture, your academic program, and the city, plus practical information about living in your host city
• Full-time program leadership and support in your host city
• Field trips and cultural activities
• Overnight excursions
• Insurance and other travel benefits, with CIEE iNext
• 24/7 emergency on-site support

1 out of 3 CIEE students receives a scholarship - get yours!

GAIN Travel Grants - up to $2,000 toward travel costs guaranteed to all Pell-elgible students.

Gilman Go Global Grants - $2,500/semester and $1,000/summer, guaranteed to all Gilman applications.

Merit-Based Scholarships - $2,500/semester and $750/summer, awarded to students deomonstrating high academic achievement.

Minority Serving Institutions (MIS) Grant - $2,000/semester and $500/summer, guaranteed to all students attending MSIs.

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Why CIEE

• 200+ study abroad programs in 40+ countries
• $8 million in scholarships offered each year
• 1 in 3 students receives a scholarship
• Study tours and cultural activities included
• Internships and volunteering opportunities
• Rigorous academics
• Cultural immersion
• iNext travel insurance included

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CIEE Summer Intensive Chinese Language Program in Beijing, China
Spend this summer immersed in a dynamic language learning environment that compels you to explore beyond the classroom. In eight weeks with the Summer Intensive Chinese Language program, you’ll complete the equivalent of one year of university-level Chinese coursework at one of the country’s most prestigious universities.

Through intensive Mandarin language training, weekly sessions with Chinese peer tutors, a homestay option, and cultural excursions you won’t simply study Chinese – you’ll live it.

Study aborad in Beijing you will:

• Improve your language skills through 20 hours of intensive in-class language coursework per week, and individual and small group tutorials with Peking University graduate student tutors
• Study the equivalent of one year university-level Chinese coursework in eight weeks while exploring Beijing and surrounding areas
• Enrich your study by choosing from among a number of language and area study electives
• Take in an acrobatics performance, go hiking, volunteer with disabled youth, and explore traditional sites such as the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and Temple of Heaven
• Volunteer in a needy organization, or participate in smaller, topic-oriented cultural activities and lectures that provide meaning to what you learn in the classroom and give you additional tools to understand your experience of living in another culture
• Choose an extended weekend excursion outside Beijing, designed around a specific theme