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On the Silk Road

Individual Interest Project

We have designed this program to allow students majoring in any field to pursue their specific interests as we travel along the Silk Road. We encourage students from all disciplines in the arts, humanities, social and physical sciences to apply.

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Application for Wittenberg in China: On the Silk Road

Selection criteria:

    Students selected will evidence

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Preliminary Program Schedule (subject to change)

 

Orientation: 3 days on the Wittenberg campus or in China (to be determined)

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Program Directors

Dr. Marcia Frost is Associate Professor of Economics and East Asian Studies. She earned her B.A. in history from Carleton College, her A.M. in South Asian Regional Studies and her Ph.D. in

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Projected Cost

The program fee of $5,400, plus $540 tuition for non-Wittenberg students, is subject to change depending on the number of student participants, inflation and/or exchange rate fluctuations.  

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Credit Hours & General Education Requirements

On the Silk Road program offers students six (6) credit hours in two courses:  EAST 290 -  Introduction to China’s Silk Road  (2 credits) and EAST 290 – Art, Religions and Cultural Exchanges Along the Silk Road (4 credits).  A Wittenberg 4 credit course meets for the equivalent of 45 class hours (60 minutes each), and students are expected to spend two hours outside of class for every hour in class.

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Wittenberg in China: On the Silk Road: 2012

May 20th - June 19th  (subject to change)

On the Silk Road is a unique, interdisciplinary program designed to introduce students to some of the peoples, cultures and history of China. Uniquely, this program explores the historic and contemporary interactions and exchanges between China and "the West", between Han and non-Han along the western periphery that make modern China a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic state.

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