Regent's Chinese Academy program to meet on Miami Hamilton campus

June 6, 2007

Look out for some bright, talented and bilingual high school students on the Miami Hamilton campus on weekdays between June 20 and July 11. The Regent’s Chinese Academy is offering a free, three-week, intensive beginning Chinese course in three locations around Ohio: Cleveland State University, Miami University Hamilton, and Ohio State University. Students will also participate in follow-up work in the fall.

Students will use technologies (videoconferencing, Internet) to connect the three locations so that instruction can be shared and so that students at each of the three sites can get to know each other. A master teacher at OSU will offer FACT sessions (information about Chinese language and culture) to all students via videoconferencing with CSU and Miami Hamilton; a local teacher will work with students to develop their oral proficiency skills at each of the three locations (ACT sessions). There will also be special sessions on different cultural topics (martial arts, Chinese television, Chinese teen-agers, calligraphy, etc.) during the three-week academy.

Students who successfully complete the course will get credit for one quarter (or semester) of elementary Chinese and/or one unit of high school credit. A portion of those hours will be earned during the three-week intensive program; the remaining hours later in the summer or fall.

Learn more about this program at the Regents' Chinese Academy website.