¡Î¡Î¡Î CHINESE LANGUAGE TRAINING PROGRAMS¡@¡Î¡Î¡Î ¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@IN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA PROGRAM PROFILES Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei Known as "IUP" and "Stanford Center" The Inter-University Program is administered by Stanford University and a board of eleven member universities, including National Taiwan University, Columbia University, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, University of California(Berkeley), University of Chicago, Michigan, and Washington. Sources of funding include the ROC Ministry of Education, US Department of Education, member universities, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and student tuition. There are approximately 1,200 alumni, most of whom have entered academic or government professions. Some have also entered the business world. Address: P.O.Box 13-204 Taipei, Taiwan ROC Telephone:(02)363-9123 Fax:(02)362-6926 Contact: Teng Shou-hsin Year founded:1963 Enrollment: 50 Tuition: US$3,000 per term ¡@¡@¡@US$2,500 summer Living Expenses:NT$10,000 per month Scholarships: Available Note: Direct admissions inquiries and application to the following address, not to the center's address above. Inter-University Program Littlefield Center, Room 14 300 Lasuen Street Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-5013 USA Teaching Staff: IUP has eight full time teachers and 14 part time teachers. Candidates for teaching positions must have a BA or MA, with majors in liberal arts. They must speak standard Mandarin. Teachers are recruited through public advertisement. Candidates go through interviews. oral exams, written exams, and teaching demonstration. The student/teacher ratio is 2:1. Facilities: IUP is located on the third and fourth floors of the Language Center at National Taiwan University(NTU), near the University's Fu Hsing South Road entrance. IUP has thirty classrooms, two audio-visual rooms, a language laboratory, recreation room, student lounge, library, lecture hall, and computer rooms for students. IUP students are permitted to audit NTU classes. Further, they are issued NTU library cards and are permitted to use the university's athletic and recreational facilities. Students: The overwhelming majority of students are Americans. There is an even male/female ratio. Admissions: IUP does not offer beginning Chinese. Applicants are required to have had at least two years of university-level Chinese prior to entry. They must be graduate or undergraduate students, or be able to demonstrate a need for Chinese in their career plans, and must pass a written and oral test of their Chinese language ability prior to being accepted. Students from both the United States and other countries are welcome to apply. Students accepted into the program are given placement test upon arrival. Applications must be submitted by February 1 for entry is September of that year. Students applying for entry in September are expected to complete a full three quarters of study (Fall, Winter, and Spring), with option to stay for the Summer term as well. Students are also admitted separately for the Summer term (21 in 1991). Applications for summer term (June to August) must be submitted by February 15. Students must direct inquiries and applications to IUP's offices in Stanford, California (address shown above). Calendar: The academic year is divided into four terms¡Ðthree terms of ten weeks each(regular academic year), one of eight weeks(Summer). Students for the regular academic year must register for each of the three quarters, with summer study optional. The dates for 1993 are: Fall Term: September 28-December 18 Winter Term: January 4-March 19 Spring Term: April 6-June 11 Summer Term(Optional): June 21-August 13 Tuition: Tuition: For 1993-94, fees are US$3,000 per term (totally $9,000 for the three terms of the regular academic year) and US$2,500 for Summer term. Living Expenses: In addition to tuition, students should prepare about NT$10,000 per month for living expenses. Curriculum and Instruction: Students for the regular academic year must take four hours of classes per day, twenty hours per week(fifteen hours per week for summer term). Courses include conversation, Classical and contemporary literature, radio and television broadcasts, history, philosophy, and Classical Chinese. All courses are taught in Chinese. IUP also offers courses in Taiwanese. Classes range from one to three students per class. Most of the program's texts and language tapes were designed by IUP. Extracurricular Activities: IUP sponsors lectures, movies, school trips, and receptions. Scholarships: IUP provides limited financial assistance. All applicants may be considered. Awards are decided on the basis of need and academic performance. Funding is provided by the ROC Ministry of Education and the US Department of Education. Housing: Not available, but IUP keeps a roster of apartment occupied by former students. Transcripts or Certificates Awarded: IUP does not issue official transcripts. However, students are given progress reports at the end of each term and a certificate at the end of the academic year. Transfer Credit: Students must make their own arrangements with their home institutions. Exchange Agreements with Foreign Institutions: IUP is governed by a board with representatives from eleven member universities. Students from both the United States and other countries are welcome to apply. Language Center Statement by IUP IUP is a Chinese language training facility whose goals are to bring students to a high level of spoken competence, to advanced reading capacity, and to intermediate writing(composition) skills. Where appropriate, these activities may be shaped to meet the specific research or other professional needs of students. All students must have completed two or more years of Chinese language training at the college level, or equivalent, before qualifying for admission. Students may come from any university and may represent any field of interest, but all must have a serious career commitment to Chinese language and area studies. Principal emphasis is placed on training in Mandarin Chinese. Some students may also study Taiwanese, Cantonese, or other dialects, where the need for such training can be demonstrated and competence in Mandarin has reached a satisfactory level. Maintenance Japanese has occasionally been provided. Teachers are recruited locally, and are native speakers of the language or dialects they teach. All are college graduates, and several hold academic positions in Taiwan. The program stresses those aspects of language training and cultural exposure best suited to a Chinese speaking area. Students spend twenty hours per week in class and are expected to do approximately 15-20 hours of preparation outside of class. This is a full time program. During the first quarter, a typical curriculum is fifteen hours of spoken Chinese, and five hours of reading/discussion. During subsequent quarters, as spoken competence increases, more reading/discussion is added, writing(composition) is introduced, and supplementary language-related activities are offered. During the first two quarters, IUP assigns all regular students to three-person group classes. During the third and fourth quarters, and altered pattern is planned to meet students' specific needs and enhanced capabilities(school budget permitting): one class per day will be an individual tutorial class; two will be small group classes; and the fourth hour will be a mixed format which will include lectures in Chinese, supplementary activities(e.g. using Chinese on the computer, reading cursive handwritten materials, introduction to Sinological reference tools, business Chinese, etc.). Where appropriate, students may audit classes at National Taiwan University, introductions to Chinese scholars are arranged, and access to library or archival resources is facilitated. Spoken Chinese is taught by modern oral-aural methods, mainly using in-house and locally-produced materials, supplemented by texts produced elsewhere. Reading courses aim at broad competence with materials of a general nature and at more specialized exposure to materials drawn from the student's discipline or area of professional interest. The reading track seeks active student-teacher discussion of content, rather than word-by-word explication of the text. The principal goals of reading classes are mastery of content, rapid reading, and ability to discuss the substantive problems raised in the text. This method, therefore, actively joins the speaking and reading tracks.