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Intensive Chinese or Japanese

Full-year Asian Language CONcentration (FALCON)

June 6 - August 8, 2012

See also: The Asian Studies Department Summer Courses and the FALCON website.

This program includes intensive language instruction in Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese. The introductory courses meet, with a rotation of teachers, four hours a day, five days a week, for nine weeks. There are also at least five hours daily of additional preparation time outside of class, including daily sessions in the language lab. Section classes are kept small (twelve or fewer students in a section).

Chinese and Japanese 1160 are ideal courses for those planning to go to China or Japan in the fall as well as for those who just want to get a good start on spoken and written Chinese or Japanese. Because the program extends through the entire day, those enrolled in it cannot take other courses or hold part-time jobs, except possibly on weekends.

Students enrolling in the yearlong intensive Chinese and Japanese programs (FALCON) normally begin with the summer session (courses numbered 1160) and continue intensively in the fall and spring (with courses numbered 2260 [intermediate level] and 3360 [advanced level], respectively). Intermediate Chinese (2201 - 2202) will be offered in the summer if there is sufficient demand. Students who have not taken the prerequisites for these courses at Cornell are placed into intermediate courses by examination only. The intermediate courses do not continue intensively in the fall.

Tuition and fees for each eight-credit course are $8,840. The first-round application deadline is March 1. After March 1 acceptance into the program is on a rolling basis as long as there is room in the course. Once accepted, a $500 nonrefundable deposit, which is applied toward tuition, is required within two weeks of acceptance to ensure a place in the summer program. The remainder of the tuition is due April 8.

Course information

To Apply

Application forms and additional information may be obtained from:

The FALCON Program
Department of Asian Studies
Cornell University
388 Rockefeller Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2502
Phone: 607.255.6457
E-mail: falcon@cornell.edu
Web: http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/asian/programs/summer/falcon