Continuation Program- Fall + J-term

This Beijing-based program is designed to give School in China students the opportunity to apply their newly gained language skills following the fall semester in Hangzhou. With the continuation of work on individual student’s academic field of interest (usually enhanced by the one-on-one tutorial in Hangzhou) this program challenges students to conduct more in depth research in the subject as it relates to Beijing. Each student will choose a topic and work one-on-one with a teacher (provided by CET Beijing) for six hours in a week while using the remaining time to undertake independent research and social survey on that topic. This course will require students to travel within the city as much as possible and interview people as part of their research. Students will be required to present their final projects orally to a panel of instructors and fellow J-term Hangzhou-Beijing classmates. They will also be required to produce a well-researched term paper of up to 2,000 Chinese characters.

Students will be housed at CET's center at the Beijing Institute of Education, but unlike the other J-term students, they will have single rooms. Students will also have full access to the Chinese roommates in the program. They will have all meals at the center or will receive meal stipends.