About CAPS 项目简介
To Train Future Leaders in U.S.-China Relations
培养二十一世纪中美关系领军者
A “revolutionary” new undergraduate major at Cornell University, CAPS is a program designed to train future leaders who are equipped to address the inevitable challenges and negotiate the delicate complexities in the various domains of U.S.-China relations. With four years of intensive Chinese language training and two semesters of externships in Washington, D.C., and Beijing respectively, the unique and ambitious program offers CAPS majors unprecedented pre-professional training mapped onto a solid Cornell liberal arts education.
Cornell graduates with a major in CAPS will be in high demand for entry- or higher-level positions in consultancies, journalism, law firms, businesses, financial services, NGOs, diplomacy, and other government and public service agencies. An undergraduate CAPS degree also readily prepares one for graduate studies in law, business, and other disciplines with a focus on China.
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Cornell graduates with a major in CAPS will be in high demand for entry- or higher-level positions in consultancies, journalism, law firms, businesses, financial services, NGOs, diplomacy, and other government and public service agencies. An undergraduate CAPS degree also readily prepares one for graduate studies in law, business, and other disciplines with a focus on China.
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Highlights of CAPS Major 专业特色
- CAPS majors are required to complete four years of college-level Chinese language courses and aim to achieve high-advanced Chinese proficiency upon graduation. Learn more>>
- The CAPS major gives students experience both on- and off-campus, including three years in Ithaca, one semester in Washington, D.C, and one semester in Beijing.
- In Ithaca, CAPS majors study China’s history, politics, society, and foreign relations (especially with the United States), and they take Chinese language courses either in the regular curriculum or in the FALCON (the Full-year Asian Language CONcentration) program—the only language program in the United States that allows students to study Chinese all day, every day, for a full year. Learn more about Chinese FALCON>>
- In Washington, D.C., CAPS majors are in residence at Cornell in Washington (whose building near Dupont Circle is belongs to Cornell); their core courses are a seminar on U.S.-China relations and a seminar on American public policy (or alternately, a seminar on American experience). In the U.S.-China seminar, students meet with key figures and discuss issues of diplomacy, business, law, journalism, education, and other fields. Learn more>>
- In Beijing, CAPS majors live on the campus of China’s preeminent institution of higher learning, Peking University, and take two CAPS seminars: 4001 with an English speaking visiting U.S. professor; and CAPS 4002, a course taught partly in Chinese and partly in English by a Peking University professor. Learn more>>
- In both Washington, D.C., and Beijing, CAPS majors hold China-related externships in government agencies, embassies, newspapers, television networks, businesses, law firms, NGOs, and other organizations. Learn more>>
- Back in Ithaca for their final semester, CAPS majors bring their studies to a culmination in a senior seminar (CAPS 4030), and, ideally, an honors thesis (CAPS 4010 and 4020). Learn more>>