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Hanban High School Summer Bridge Program
 
The Hanban High School Summer Bridge Program provides two weeks of Chinese language and cultural training in China each summer. Selected students need only pay for their airfare and visas; Hanban (Chinese Language Council
International) provides all in-country expenses, including room, board, transportation, language instruction, cultural activities, and sightseeing tours. The program generally takes place during the month of July.
The WSU staff recruits, interviews, and selects applicants to represent the southeast Michigan area at the beginning
of each year. The WSU CI also helps choose chaperons at a ratio of one chaperon for every nine students. Chaperons must pay for their own airfare and visas, but Hanban provides in-country expenses. Applicants are generally notified of acceptance by the end of March.
The CI staff coordinates air travel and visas and provides pre-departure orientations, but neither Wayne State University nor the Wayne State University Conficius Institute is an official sponsor of the program. For this reason, all applicant must purchase airfare individually for the flight or flights indicated by the program coordinator. Students and their parents or guardians must also sign a waiver recognizing that Wayne State University is not an official sponsor of the program.
Students applying to the program through the Wayne State University Confucius Institute must be matriculated in a southeast Michigan high school. The program aims to reach students who are interested in China but who have had little or no exposure to China or the Chinese language. Students will be selected based on maturity, enthusiasm, and seriousness of purpose. Students and their parents will be expected to sign a waiver that allows chaperons to repatriate students who are insubordinate or who violate program rules. In such cases, students will be sent home at the expense of the student's parents or guardian.
Click here for an application for the 2010 Hanban Summer Bridge Program
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