Alternatively, undergraduates may study at the Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University. Washington University offers its own program at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The Year Abroad in Japanese is at Waseda University, Tokyo, where students take language and culture courses for two semesters. Exceptional students may study Japanese language and culture in Kyoto through a program sponsored by a consortium of American Universities and administered by Stanford University. Through these programs, the student normally earns 24 to 30 units of credit toward graduation, and most may be applied toward the major.
Students commonly go abroad during their junior year, preferably after two years of language study.