Xi’an, China

Alliance for Global Education, Shaanxi Normal University

Chinese

Intermediate and advanced

June 14 – August 14, 2011

Dates are inclusive of travel and the pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC. Students are required to participate in the full program, including the pre-departure orientation. All travel will be arranged for participants following selection.

The CLS Program offers courses designed to develop students’ listening, reading, speaking, spoken interaction, and writing skills. Students will receive a minimum of 20 hours per week of formal classroom instruction in subjects such as grammar, listening, idioms, and spoken Chinese. In addition, students may also have opportunities to explore subjects such as Chinese society and culture, film, economic development, and the environment. Participants will also be required to take part in organized semi-formal and informal learning activities that will promote interaction with the host community and culture. These activities will support the formal classroom instruction.

Students will also participate in a variety of cultural enrichment lectures and activities. Students will have opportunities to participate in Chinese-only lunches with their teachers and peers, as well as meet with language partners to practice Chinese and learn about the city.

All components of the CLS Program have been developed as part of the language acquisition process. CLS participants are required to attend all program components, including, but not limited to, language instruction (formal/informal), cultural activities, and excursions. Absences will only be excused for medical or other approved reasons.

Students will live in Shaanxi Normal University international student dormitories with Chinese roommates and receive stipends to cover their meals.

Students will study at Shaanxi Normal University in a program arranged by the Alliance for Global Education, LLC. Founded in 1944, Shaanxi Normal University (SNU) is considered to be one of the most comprehensive universities in China’s northwest region. SNU offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs in Chinese foreign language and literature, international politics, cultural studies, chemistry, mathematics, biology, history, geography, food engineering, economics and other disciplines. SNU is home to over 40,000 students on two campuses.

Located in Xian’s scenic college district, SNU is conveniently near public transportation routes, parks, shopping streets and scenic spots such as Xi’an Botanical Gardens and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

For more information about Shaanxi Normal University, please visit http://english.snnu.edu.cn/

The Alliance for Global Education, LLC, is a not-for-profit partnership of the College of Global Studies at Arcadia University and the Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University. The Alliance was formed with the vision of opening study abroad destinations in Asia to an ever-growing and more diverse U.S. undergraduate population. It offers stimulating, interdisciplinary study abroad programs in China and India that maintain the high academic standards, strong student services, and careful health and safety measures of its partner institutions.

For more information about the Alliance for Global Education, please visit: http://www.allianceglobaled.org/