The steps to ensuring transfer credit for summer language programs are the same as for academic year or semester programs. Please see the "Forms" page for a document that details the steps to ensuring transfer credit.

KCJS SEMESTER AND SUMMER PROGRAMS

The University of Virginia joins Harvard, Stanford, and about a dozen other top universities in running the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS) in Japan's historic capital city. The consortium arrangement entitles UVA to select a small number of undergraduate students each year to participate in the program, either for one semester, a full academic year, or in an intensive summer program.

For the semester/year program, students must have had two full years of college-level Japanese language instruction or an equivalent background. Mornings are devoted to intensive language training in a small classroom setting. Afternoon activities include courses offered in English on a broad spectrum of social sciences and humanities courses on premodern and contemporary Japan. Coursework integrates the historical and cultural resources of Kyoto into the curriculum through excursions, field trips, and guest lectures. Immersion in the language and culture is facilitated by living with a Japanese family, taking classes with Japanese students, and participating in a wide array of community-based extracurricular activities.

The summer program is devoted to course in classical Japanese and advanced modern Japanese (fourth year and above). The program also organizes excursions and cultural activities relating to Kyoto and the surrounding area. For additional information on the program, please click here.

UVA IN SHANGHAI SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM

The UVA in Shanghai Intensive Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Virginia is hosted by East China Normal University. It is intended to enable students who are serious about studying Chinese language in a total immersion environment to cover a year's worth of material and to earn eight UVA credits. This rigorous, demanding, and rewarding language program allows the student to have first hand experience using Chinese in real world situations as well as studying and practicing it in the classroom. For more information, use the "Find a Program" link at https://educationabroad.virginia.edu/. Please check this link to see about the program   https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzc1NTc2ODIwNA==.html .

The UVA in Shanghai Teachers' Special Issue can be read here: UVA in Shanghai Teachers' Special Issue

The UVA in Shanghai Intensive Summer Chinese Language Program has also been selected by Yale University’s prestigious Light Fellowship as a destination site for language study utilizing Light Fellowship funding. For more information on the Light Fellowship: Yale Light Fellowships

UVA SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

The Summer Language Institute (SLI) at UVA offers intensive summer instruction in Chinese. The Chinese SLI program is 8 weeks long and provides 8 credits for both elementary and intermediate levels in Modern Standard Mandarin Chinese. The program helps students acquire a solid foundation in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a near immersion setting.

Students with little to no prior experience can apply for the SLI Chinese Level 1, which covers the equivalent content of CHIN 1010 and 1020 offered during the Fall and Spring semesters. In Level 1, students will learn the sounds and tones of Mandarin Chinese, essential vocabulary, commonly used characters, pinyin (the standard transcription system for Mandarin), and gain insights into Chinese language, culture, and society.

Those who have completed two elementary semesters can enroll in Chinese SLI Level 2, which corresponds to the content of CHIN 2010 and 2020 offered during the academic year. At the intermediate level, students will focus on speaking about their immediate life situations, covering topics such as travel, education, health, and criteria for making decisions about shopping, course selections, majors, and relationships.

The intimate class format fosters interaction between teachers, in-class tutors, and students, creating a conducive learning environment that promotes both individual and collective learning. Throughout the eight-week program, classes meet every weekday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM for group instruction, followed by an additional hour of individual tutoring sessions each day.

VIRGINIA STARTALK

STARTALK is a Teacher Training Residential Program offered by the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures that offers intensive training and first-hand experience to Chinese language instructors through teaching motivated high school learners at the Virginia Startalk Chinese Academy, sponsored by Virginia’s Department of Education. Participants earn 3 UVA credits in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and compile a comprehensive teaching e-portfolio including: standards-based syllabus, classroom teaching demos, sample class materials and activities, sample tests, review articles on teaching theories and practices, etc. The program also includes frequent co-curricular cultural activities and opportunities to meet with other language professionals in the field.