I love the fact that you can guide the course according to your interest. Your teacher is more of a team member than a director. Harbin Fall 1998 student.
Students also participate in specialized drill sessions with one other student and one professor.
Tutorials total eight hours per week. This individualized attention makes it possible for advanced students with varying levels of fluency to significantly improve their own proficiency without fear either of falling behind or of being held back by other students in the program. Harbin's history and setting provide an ideal environment for this type of intensive study. Now an industrial center, Harbin was built largely by All Harbin students live with Chinese roommates from HIT, and there is a strictly enforced Chinese-only language pledge for enrolled students. The program is directed by our full-time Resident Director, Ken Azimullah.