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Teach English to middle and high school students in China.
Open to all majors!! Join a May 2008 Immersion experience to ChangChun City in the People’s Republic of China, to teach English to middle and high school Chinese students. When: May 19- June 1, 2008 Courses (you must register for both): ED 481 and IN350. 3 credits each = 6 credits Trip Itinerary: Meet on campus for seminars in preparation for the trip. Fly to Beijing, visit the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square before traveling to ChangChun. Spend 10 days teaching English to Chinese students while visiting around ChangChun. Back in Beijing, visit the Great Wall, as well as Olympic Sites. Travel & Tuition Expenses (Housing and food covered, in exchange for our teaching.) $800 deposit toward tuition and airfare is required by December 1, 2007. Tuition $1716 for 6 credits Airfare $1500 (approximate) Cost of obtaining a valid passport, visa, and travel insurance card Some personal spending money will be needed The courses: IN350: Global studies courses generally explore the fundamental diversity and interconnectedness of the world. In this course, students will reach beyond the United States as they travel to the northeast corner of mainland China. This particular course is interdisciplinary, and comparative. It is a course that is a concentrated experience exploring the culture of The People's Republic of China. This is a course emphasizing comparative elements of culture, and education through student interaction and reflection with peers from Chinese universities. Units of comparative analysis will include: individual, group, culture, and the world. ED 481: This course is a concentrated teaching experience in a classroom in ChangChun, China. The professors will conduct seminars for orientation, discussion, and evaluation. Students will be responsible for planning a series of lessons for 10 consecutive days that will help 8th-12th graders improve their English language speaking skills. This course will have texts and meeting times prior to the departure for China, to be determined early in the spring 2008 semester.
	Contact Dr. Nan Gaylen if you are interested in this opportunity! ngaylen@millikin.edu Other summer 2008 immersions

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