Summer 2010 Announcement

The Mandarin Chinese Summer Language Program will begin accepting applications for the fourth cohort in February 2010. Completed applications must be submitted by March 5th, 2010. Students accepted to the fourth cohort will spend six weeks in Taipei at the Mandarin Training Center. Faculty from CSU and from National Taiwan Normal University will provide an enriching Mandarin only language learning environment.

Motivated students are encouraged to download the application form from the CSU Consortium for the Strategic Language Initiative (SLI) Program main web site.

Students and faculty from cohort three will again be at Shanghai Foreign Language University for the summer. In addition to the six-week Summer Language Intensive they will visit historical Xi'an, the capital Beijing, and nearby Hangzhou and Suzhou.

Please contact Dr. Tim Xie (txie@csulb.edu), or Ching-I Tsao (chingitsao@yahoo.com.tw) for more information.

Summer Immersion Language Program

The Intensive Immersion Language Program of the Southern Consortium of California State Universities offers a unique opportunity to jump-start your CV with professional language capacity currently much in demand.

California State University Long Beach will offer the Mandarin Chinese program. This extremely rigorous academic experience requires students to commit to six-weeks of intensive language study in summer 2009, a similarly intensive study-abroad program in China in the summer of 2010, and to follow-up guided study courses during the intervening semesters. During the summer programs students should plan to dedicate themselves completely to the study of the target language; they must commit to speaking only Mandarin.

Students accepted to this rigorous program will complete six units of professional language education in each summer session and three units, conducted predominately in Chinese, of directed studies related to their majors during each of the intervening semesters. They should expect to advance abundantly in their pursuit of language fluency. To be successful students should be ready to dedicate themselves to the advancement of language proficiency each day in class, and also by actively participating in extracurricular language activities and in group or independent language study.

The Mandarin program will admit only 18 students. These individuals will have completed two years of university level Mandarin language instruction (or equivalent), met the admissions criteria, done exceptionally well on the required interview, and demonstrated their capacity for study and personal growth. Admission will automatically make them eligible for this complete educational package, including tuition, books, individual and small group tutoring, room and board for the study abroad program in China, excursions, and extra-cirricular language activities.

Contact Information

If you require additional information not available on this website please contact one of the program coordinators.

Dr. Tim Xie
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
California State University, Long Beach
Email: txie@csulb.edu
Telephone: (562) 985-5278

Dr. Jack Jinghui Liu
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
California State University, Fullerton
Email: jinghuiliu@fullerton.edu
Telephone: (714) 278-2183

Prof. Jeff Winters
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
California State University, Long Beach
Email: jwinter2@csulb.edu
Telephone: (562) 985-9333