East Asian Languages and Literatures Study Groups China Study Group Offered next in the spring term 2001, the China Study Group is based at Peking University in the People's Republic of China. Students spend a month in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and three months in Beijing, taking two courses in Chinese language from Peking University faculty and two area studies courses from the Colgate resident director.
Students hear lectures by Chinese scholars and public figures on government, society and culture.
Field trips to areas of academic interest in China make up the remaining month of the term. Prerequisites include three terms of Chinese at Colgate or the equivalent, completion of a CORE course on China, and permission of the study group director. More information about the China Study Group can be found on Colgate University's Off Campus Study Web Page. This program takes place in Kyoto, Japan during the spring term. The study group provides students lodging with Japanese families, intensive language training and instruction by Japanese and Western experts and people of practical experience in Japanese politics, economics, business, religion, art and literature.