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Study Abroad - Programs
Winter 2004
China EAS/FLLT
January 1, 2004 - February 6, 2004


Program Overview

China: 5,000 years of history and culture.

Study Chinese culture, history, and language, and experience its art and music, while visiting the major historical and modern wonders of China. In this learning adventure, you will study with experts in the field and make rewarding connections with the locals through well-known native instructors, buddies selected from students of one of China’s most prestigious universities, field trips to non-tourist sites and many other activities.

While in China, you will stay in Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai. In Beijing, you will visit major historical sites, including the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Tiananmen Square, and the Great Wall. At Xi’an, you will see the 2000-year-old terracotta soldiers in their original formation, site of a 6000-year-old village, and remains of a Tang Dynasty Palace. In Shanghai, you will experience both the Old Town as well as the Bund, and then make excursions to beautiful Suzhou (famous scholars gardens) and the historic ‘water-borne’ town of Tongli.

At Beijing, you will sample life on the campus of a premier Chinese university, meet with its students, visit schools, and feast yourselves in Chinese culture by attending performances of the Peking Opera, traditional Chinese music, and lessons in calligraphy, brush painting, and martial art.

Ample free time will allow you to explore the neighborhoods of Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai, and meet ordinary folks from all walks of life.

Other program highlights may include:

  • Meeting Chinese celebrities in filmmaking, literature and arts
  • Meetings or seminars hosted by American business and political professions working in China.
  • Celebration of Chinese New Year in China!

Expect the unexpected!

Courses
Students must enroll in all courses for credit and a grade; pass/fail and audit registration is not permitted.

Honors credit may be available. Check with the faculty director and the Honors program for prior approval (before departure).

All students must enroll in 6 or 7 credits, as well as the 0-credit UNIV course. Students who have taken HIST 137 may do an independent study with Professor Pong.

ARSC367-070 - Love, Death and Gender in Chinese Films (3 cr.)
This course examines the issues of love, death, and gender in Chinese films. It focuses, in particular, on gender politics and female sexuality of various ideological persuasions and psychological dispositions and how such issues are articulated cinematically both from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Satisfies the following requirements:
Arts & Sciences Group A
      East Asian Studies majors and minors.

CHIN106-070 - Chinese II-Elementary/Intermediate (4 cr.)
Continued practice in the aural, oral, reading and writing skills of Mandarin Chinese including the identification and reproduction of basic Chinese characters. Introduction to formality levels and to reading and writing texts in Chinese characters.
Prerequisite:CHIN 105 (Chinese I-Elementary)

CHIN107-070 - Chinese III-Intermediate (4 cr.)
Development of aural, oral, reading and writing skills at the intermediate Chinese level, including continued practice in identifying and reproducing Chinese characters, handling a greater variety of formality levels, and further comprehending spoken (Koutouyu) and written (Shumianyu) language differences.
Prerequisite:CHIN 106 (Chinese II-Elementary/Intermediate)
Satisfies the following requirements:
      Arts & Sciences Foreign Language

FLLT367-070 - Love, Death and Gender in Chinese Films (3 cr.)
Cross-listed with ARSC 367.
Satisfies the following requirements:
Arts & Sciences Group A

HIST137-070 - East Asian Civilization: China (3 cr.)
A survey of major aspects of Chinese civilization, relating the past to the present.
Satisfies the following requirements:
Arts & Sciences Group B
Multicultural
      East Asian Studies majors and minors, as well as History majors and minors.

WOMS367-070 - Love, Death and Gender in Chinese Films (3 cr.)
Cross-listed with ARSC 367.
Satisfies the following requirements:
Arts & Sciences Group A
      WOMS majors and minors
Requirements
Applicants should have a G.P.A. of at least 2.0 (on a 4.00 scale). We encourage freshmen to apply! For all participants, a formal application is necessary, including a deposit, one transcript (non-University of Delaware students only), and one recommendation. An interview may be conducted in person or by telephone.

Study abroad at the University of Delaware is highly competitive. See here for an overview of the acceptance process. If you are not selected for your first choice program, we recommend moving your application and deposit to another program (by emailing your request to studyabroad@udel.edu).

China EAS/FLLT Program Costs
Participants in the China EAS/FLLT program will be charged University of Delaware tuition for one Winter Session and the program fee. The program fee usually covers round-trip airfare, housing, and all excursions but does not include transportation to/from the group's initial departure airport. Your specific program fee may or may not include these and other items, check with the faculty director for details.

A $200 deposit towards the program fee must be paid by no later than October 3, 2003 , although we recommend that you pay your deposit within three working days of submitting your application. The deposit is non-refundable if you are admitted into the program. The program acceptance list will be available approximately two weeks later. See below for additional program fee and tuition payment deadlines.

UD students pay all program fee deposits by direct bank transfer via this website: http://www.udel.edu/studyabroadpayments. Non-UD students should send a check, payable to the University of Delaware, to CFIS, Elliott Hall, 26 East Main Street, Newark, DE 19716. Credit card payments are not accepted.

  DE Resident Non-DE Resident
Final Tuition based on current year 1107 2894
Final Program Fee 2940 2940
UD Registration & Activities Fee 20 20
Final Total 4067 5854

Please note that final program fees are subject to change until the group's departure date. Final program fees may be increased due to airline taxes, fuel surcharges, exchange rates, or changes in the group size.

Scholarships
Need- and merit-based scholarships are available to UD undergraduates on a competitive basis. For more details and to apply for a scholarship, go to our scholarships page (and be sure to submit scholarship materials by the deadlines).
Deadlines
All payments and application materials are due by 5:00pm on the dates listed below:
  • Application and $200 deposit deadline: October 3, 2003
  • $800 deposit deadline: October 21, 2003
  • Final program fee balance due: November 14, 2003
  • Tuition and Registration Fee due: December 12, 2003
Contact Information
Jianguo Chen
Faculty Director
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
410 Smith Hall
Phone:(302) 831-2183
Email: chenjia@udel.edu


David Pong
Faculty Director
Department of History
224 Munroe Hall
Phone:(302) 831-0799
Email: dpong@udel.edu