2018 Fudan University Chinese Language Program for International Students

(Spring Semester Intake)

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL CULTUTRAL EXCHANGE SCHOOL, ICES, FUDAN UNIV.

International Cultural Exchange School, ICES, is the institution specialized in providing Chinese language and culture programs for international students in Fudan University. ICES is appointed to be one of the first four bases of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages in China. We accept international students for long term and short term language programs, general advanced and other tailor-made programs. ICES also provide degree programs for undergraduates majoring in Chinese Language & Culture and Business Chinese, and for Master candidates majoring in

Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.

MAIN COURSES

The main courses include intensive reading, extensive reading, listening, speaking and writing. Optional courses including Pronunciation, Shanghai Dialect, Chinese Movie, Chinese sayings and proverbs, etc. are also provided. Special Character Writing class is set up for overseas Chinese origin students. There will be about 20 class hours per week for each level.

★Optional course could be different every year.

ABOUT CHINESE PROFICIENCYTEST,HSK & BUSINESS CHINESE TEST,BCT

Chinese Proficiency Test, HSK and Business Chinese Test, BCT are national examinations held by HANBAN, Confucius Institute Headquarters, which are widely recognized internationally. ICES is authorized test centers for both tests. ICES holds HSK tests 5 times in a year, for detailed schedule please call +86-21-65642256.

APPLYING

Study Period: Ranges from half-year to two years.

The spring semester runs from February to July, and the autumn semester from September to January.

★Final tuition criteria are subject to enrolment pricing announced by Financial Office of Fudan.

Application Requirements: Applicant must be a citizen of a foreign country between 18 and 60 years of age, in good mental and physical health.

Application periods:

1. Applications begin on October 8. Deadline of submitting application materials is December 10.

2. Autumn Semester: Applications begin on March 14. Deadline of submitting application materials is June 10.

How to Apply:

1. Log on to http://iso.fudan.edu.cn, and enter University’s Online Application System through

E-Application.

2. The online application procedure is as follows:

Registering and activating account → Filling in application → Submitting application → Paying application fee on Online Application System → Waiting for application result.

The Program Duration are as follows:

2018 Spring Semester, one semester Program:

Duration of Major Study (From): 2018-02-26, (To): 2018-07-07

Contact Information:

Room 909, East Main, GuangHua Building,

International Cultural Exchange School, Fudan University

220 Han Dan Road, Shanghai 200433, China

Tel: +86-21-65643652

Fax: +86-21-55664859

E-mail: yuyansheng@fudan.edu.cn

http://www.ices.fudan.edu.cn http://iso.fudan.edu.cn,

APPLICATION FEES AND MATERIALS ARE NON-RETURNABLE.

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According to Dictionary. com, fall isn’t a modern name that followed the more traditional autumn. The two terms are actually first recorded within a few hundred years of each other, with the term fall being used even a bit earlier.

【小题3】 The word is of Germanic origin and meant“ picking” or “collecting”, a nod to the act of gathering and preserving crops in the field before winter. In the 1500s, English speakers began referring to the season separating the hot and cold months as either the fall of the leaf or the spring of the leaf, or fall and spring for short. 【小题4】 By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word “automne” and the Latin “ autumnus”, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.

Around the same time England adopted autumn, the first-ever British American colonists（殖民者）were voyaging to North America. 【小题5】 While the former fell out of fashion overseas, it established itself in the local vocabulary by the line America won its independence. Today, using both words tn describe the season before winter is still a unique American behavior.