looking for students to join a graduate level abroad program run by a U.S. university

[blink]

Hi,

Anyone interested in joining a 2009 summer or fall graduate level study abroad program in China? My university has an undergrad program, but needs more students in order to run graduate level classes.

About the proposed program:

run by a prominent Washington, DC USA graduate university

hosted in Beijing or Nanjing

graduate level courses taught in English

chinese language courses (optional)

internship (optional)

If this doesn't work out I'll be going to China to study language anyway (probably through directly enrolling in a chinese university) but I'd rather have the opportunity to take graduate level courses while in China and my mandarin is not good enough to do that through a chinese university. It will only take 5 to 7 students to make the program a go.

Hope there are some poeple out there who are interested! Let me know if you have any questions...

Edited July 18, 2008 at 05:40 PM by blink

[bottledpoetry]

Sounds interesting. Do you have more information about:

1. what subjects/classes will be offered?

2. how the classes would count for other universities? I personally want to know if they would count as any sort of academic credit for the University of California?

3. how much would this program be?

[blink]

*Disclaimer: I told my program director that I would post here looking for other students, but please note that this isn't an official ad or communication from the school - I'm just a student.

1. The School of International Service, American University, is running the program so the courses would have that focus -- international relations, perhaps international security, east asia area studies with at international realtions bent etc

2. Since the courses would be designed to count for three graduate credits at my university, I'm pretty sure they would count at yours too, but the program coordinator would help you work all this out before we get too far in the process

3. Cost is still a question. I don't know whether you would pay tutition to your school or to my school. Just a guess, but I think that would depend on whether our schools develop a partnership on the project (so you pay your school) or whether it would be a typical credit transfer (you pay my school). I doubt that the program will be a package deal with meals and side trips etc so the costs should be lower than the average package university program.

My program coordinator is trying to help me get overseas and has a couple of different avenues she's working on - including partnering with other US schools to make something happen. So there's still a lot of flexibility, but the costs and whats included as far as a package meal and housing deal will change depending on how the program comes into being.

I'll ask her for more details on how the cost and credit transfer would work for students from other universities. Let me know if you have other specifics you'd like me to check on...

[politgetier]

Hi blink,

is this only available for US-citizens???

politgetier

[blink]

I'm not sure. I need to check in with the program coordinator and see what progress she's made. I'll ask.

[Edwin87]

Well im a Singaporean. Interested in the Undergrad thingy.

been searching afew Uni in Beijing for those course that offered in English.

but only Masters offered that.

[politgetier]

Hey blink,

THANK YOU for checking!!!

[blink]

so i just heard back from the program director - the fall program will only be for students from my university... sorry about that for all those who've contacted me, i didn't know they were going that direction with it until this week.