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. Students live with Japanese families, and in March, a rural stay lets students experience another type of Japanese life. Abroad Sponsored by a small consortium of liberal arts colleges, including Grinnell, the South India Term Abroad program operates in the temple city of Madurai in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu, one of India's most important centers of religious pilgrimmage. Classes are taught at the centrally located SITA Center by local Indian faculty.