China Program Center
Programs for American Audiences
- STARTALK Chinese Language Teachers Summer Institute
- STARTALK and the China Program Center at UMass Boston offer two, grant-funded Summer Institutes for Teachers of Chinese titled Integrating Culture into the Mandarin Language Curriculum and Methods and Materials for Teaching Mandarin along with a practice-teaching course titled Practicum/Field Experience for Teaching Mandarin, and a new course, Independent Study (for Teachers of Mandarin Language).
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- STARTALK Mandarin Language Summer Camp
- Students in grades 6-12 from around New England are offered a 3-week, intensive Mandarin Language Summer Camp led by experienced Chinese language instructors and held at Bentley University, Waltham, MA.
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- The Seventh New England World Language Department Chairs Seminar on Teaching Chinese Language in K–12 Schools
- On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, the University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute at Boston will host the Seventh New England World Language Department Chairs Seminar on Teaching Chinese Language in K–12 Schools in collaboration with Primary Source and Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS).
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- How to Do Business in China
- This program will enable business leaders to better understand the Chinese business environment and will provide a perfect opportunity for networking with high-profile Chinese officials and business executives.
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- Entrepreneurship in the U.S. and China
- This new course will offer students an in-depth look at how business in conducted in China, through a two-week stay at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China’s leading universities.
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- China Today
- American college students, parents, and staff will travel to Beijing in June for a 3-week program focusing on Chinese culture, history, geography, and politics at Tsinghua University.
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- Mandarin Language Curriculum Resource and Teaching Center
- The Chinese language is by far the most common in the world. Employers in parts of Asia have begun to consider Mandarin as much as English as the must learn language of the future.
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Programs for Chinese Audiences
- Global Leadership Workshop in U.S. Public Policy and Public Administration
- This is an intensive, six-month U.S. residency program designed to offer forward-thinking Chinese politicians insight into the architecture and day-to-day workings of American policy and economics.
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- International Student Program
- UMass Boston, complete with renowned faculty members and located in one of the United States’ most vibrant cities, promises an enriching experience for all Chinese students through its International Student Program.
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- Chinese Faculty Training Program
- The Chinese Faculty Training Program is a customized, semester-long program designed specifically to develop Chinese university faculty members’ English comprehension and presentation skills, especially as they apply to teaching.
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