NCTA provides advanced study for selected NCTA seminar alumni by organizing study tours in East Asia. During the summer 2012, the following opportunities will be offered to NCTA alumni:
The NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Pittsburgh
The NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Pittsburgh is organizing a residential summer program in Hangzhou, China
for its own teachers as well as those from four other NCTA national
coordinating sites: Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Indiana
University, University of Colorado and University of Washington.
A selection committee will choose twenty (20) teachers for the
program; there are eight (8) spots for alumni of NCTA seminars in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware and Maryland. There are three (3)
spots for each of the other NCTA coordinating sites mentioned
above. Dr. Kristin Stapleton, Associate Professor of History and
Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo,
will serve as the program’s director in China. The residential program
will be administered by the National Coordinating Site at the
University of Pittsburgh.
This program includes the following components in addition to the
time spent in China: online orientation and follow-up, as ell as
written classroom implementation plans.
Application Deadline: January 9, 2012
Click here for more infomation and to download the application.
The NCTA National Coordinating Site at Columbia University and Partner Sites
Summer 2012 Field Study Opportunities in East Asia For NCTA Alumni in the states of:
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey,
New York (lower), North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas
Itineraries & Dates:
• China - Korea: June 8 -- June 24, 2012
China: Beijing, Xian, Suzhou, Shanghai; Korea: Seoul, DMZ Kyongju, Haeinsa Temple, stay
• China (the Silk Road): July 1-- July 17, 2012
Beijing, Xi'an, Dunhuang, Turpan, Urumqi, Kashgar, Hotan, Shanghai
Only as an optional extension of the China-Silk Road Trip:
• Japan: July 18-22
Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo
(Dates of the trips are tentative until final posting.)
Application Deadline will be February 6, 2012
** Applicants for the summer 2012 trips must have completed their
NCTA course requirements by February 1, 2012 in order to be
considered for a trip. Participants must complete either a
thirty-hour, face-to-face or on-line seminar in their local area or
three of the on-line mini-courses offered to teachers in the states
listed above. (Teachers who have not completed their requirement by
February 1, 2012 will be eligible for study tours offered in summer
2013. Download application here.
The NCTA National Coordinating Site at the Five College Center
NCTA will offer a 4-week study tour to Japan in summer 2012, funded by the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, with additional support from NCTA. Coordinated by the NCTA National Coordinating Site at the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, the study tour is open by application to NCTA alumni nationwide. This study tour was postponed from Summer 2011 and new applications are now being accepted. For more information, contact Anne Prescott, aprescott@fivecolleges.edu.
The NCTA National Coordinating Site at the University of Southern California
California teachers completing the summer residential seminar or the
others at USC and Stanford will be eligible to apply for the 2012
California Study Tour to China and Taiwan. Details on the trip
will be available in November at the USC Web site adn will be annouded
in the Teaching about Asia Newsletter. To learn more or to apply, please go to the
Asia in the K-12 Curriculum section of the USC US-China Institute Web site, write to asiak12@usc.edu, or call 213-740-1307.