Global College - Hangzhou
Asia - China - Hangzhou
| Address: |
9 Hanover Place, 4th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201-5882 USA |
| E-mail: | jennifer.tidwell@liu.edu |
| Phone: | 718.780.4320 |
| Fax: | 718.780.4325 |
| Degree: | Bachelors |
| Setting: | Urban |
| Enrollment: | 1000 or Less |
| Financial aid: | Yes |
| Fafsa Number: | 002751 |
| Housing: | Yes |
Description
Global College places a strong emphasis on experiential learning and students undertake an exciting and dynamic individually-tailored education. This emphasis on internships, service learning and field trips ensures that students immerse themselves within the community at-hand. A student might focus on rain forest ecology, non-western healing practices, peace studies, conflict resolution, and any number of other academic possibilities and combinations.
Our academic program includes the Foundation Year Program in Costa Rica which is designed to prepare first-year students with the fundamentals of independent study abroad.
Second and Third Years are an opportunity to build upon first-year learning and apply knowledge and skills at other Global College Centers in China, India, Japan or participate in the traveling Comparative Religion & Culture Program.
Fourth Year students spend the one semester doing an Independent Study in a country previously visited, before participating in the Capstone Semester in Brooklyn, New York, in order to synthesize and integrate all their overseas experiences from the previous 3.5 years through courses such as: Senior Skills Seminar, Writing Workshop, Senior Seminar, Capstone Preparation Workshop, Internship, Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Globalizing World.
Curriculum Overview
The China Center in Hangzhou allows students to study a wide range of topics including the history of China, ethnic minorities in China, traditional Chinese medicine, women's issues, calligraphy, poetry, taiji, Mandarin Chinese language and modernization and economic development.
Financial Aid
Global College offers merit awards for international experience, community service and academic achievement. Students who complete FAFSA may receive US federal loans and grants.
Housing
Students at the China Center may live in off-campus university apartment suites, with two bedrooms and a shared living room, kitchenette and bathroom. Or students may live on the Yuquan Campus in single dormitory rooms, a ten-minute walk from the China Center. Each single room is furnished and includes all utilities and cleaning. Students also have the option to independently find their own off-campus housing.
