Study tours
The program incorporates visits to appropriate sites, such as Chinese churches, a stained-glass factory, village shrines, Buddhist temples, and a Chinese high school. Additionally, in the middle of the semester, the students go on a study tour around China. During this trek, students see the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Terra-cotta warriors, and much more.
Service Component
As part of the Contemporary Society course, students engage in one-week service (or "solidarity") work in a more rural part of China. Students are to teach English to schoolchildren on a daily basis and/or do whatever odd jobs that are of most use to our hosts (such as house-painting, weeding, picking up litter, etc.). Most students find this to be the highlight of their time in China.
Classroom Resources
The majority of the courses are taught in English by Chinese professors so that students may receive the Chinese point of view on major issues. Dr. Jay Lundelius, director of the CSP, oversees the administration of all courses and assessment. He also teaches the course in Intercultural Communication and co-teaches (with a Chinese sociology professor) the elective course on Eastern Philosophy & Religions.
