Cornell University
In Ithaca, students will spend their first two years fulfilling their general requirements for Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. Since students in the major will be expected to have completed the equivalent of third-year Chinese before their senior year, many students will take Chinese 101-102 and Chinese 201-202 in these first two years. Apart from language study, the only requirement for majors in their first two years at Cornell will be to take one of the following two CAPS gateway courses: CAPS/HIST. 257, China Encounters the World or CAPS/GOVT. 282, China and the World.
After the semester in Washington D.C., CAPS majors return to Ithaca the spring semester of their junior year. Back at Cornell they will continue to concentrate on both American foreign relations and Chinese studies. In this same semester, students will also complete their third year of Chinese and make other preparations for the following semester which they will spend in Beijing.
On their return from Beijing to Ithaca in the spring of senior year, CAPS majors will pursue interests they develop while abroad. In their final semester before graduation, all students will be required to take only one course, a 400-level seminar on China’s foreign relations that will be taught by a CAPS faculty member in the History or Government Department. Otherwise they will be free to choose any electives from Cornell’s wide offerings on China in the social sciences and humanities or any other subject.