Students maximize their cultural integration through living in a dormitory with Chinese students or, for students with sufficient language skills, through a homestay with a Chinese family. Volunteer work in the Beijing area may also be arranged through the IAS Center. Extensive travel to distant areas of China is a featured part of the program. Beginning students of Chinese are expected to learn 400 written characters per semester, together with a much wider spoken vocabulary. Enrollment in one of two interdisciplinary courses on Chinese history or contemporary China is part of each student's schedule.
Participants live in college dormitories with Chinese roommates.
A Yale University program. A language and area-studies program sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange. Students live with an Indian family. An ACM program. During the preceding summer, participants take an intensive Japanese-language course in a mountain village setting and then complete an extensive orientation and language program.