Hangzhou, China
The CLS Program in Hangzhou, China provides an intensive 8-week language learning environment set in a large Eastern metropolitan center. Hangzhou combines 3,000 years of history with an emerging technology industry, leisurely life style with robust social energy . Students receive a minimum of 20 hours per week of classroom instruction and participate in extensive community engagement activities. The CLS program in Hangzhou incorporates a language policy that requires scholarship recipients to speak only Chinese during all program activities.
CLS Hangzhou’s local partner is Zhejiang University of Technology . Participants live in an on campus university run business hotel with dorm room like facilities. The Zhejiang University of Technology campus is located to west of the city center and has convenient access to various parts of the area—providing a pleasant and encouraging environment for learning the language and practicing what you have learned in the native context.
The CLS curriculum in Hangzhou incorporates extensive co-curricular activities including excursions to explore culturally significant sites and community engagement activities where participants utilize their knowledge and skills and practice accomplishing appropriate tasks in effective and positive ways.