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Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
Learn about the languages, histories, economies and cultures of China, Japan and Korea. Home to approximately 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia-Pacific nations have emerged as major economic powers while their populations assert their own cultural identities. In our globalized economy, there’s a growing demand for people skilled in intercultural communications.
As well, the departments of Anthropology, History and Religion offer Asia-related specialty courses that contribute toward a minor or major in Asian studies.
Choose from exchange programs, travel study courses or field study courses that provide hands-on experience while allowing time to travel, explore and work abroad. Exchange destinations include Japan, China and Korea.
Each year, UM students study abroad through the university's student exchange agreements. Students typically spend one semester or one academic year abroad, taking a combination of language and culture courses.
These study-abroad programs are based on reciprocal tuition agreements, where students pay tuition fees to their home university while studying at the partner university.
Exchange participants are chosen from all faculties. Students are not required to have studied the Japanese, Chinese or Korean language to participate.
Students interested in the exchange program should meet with an Academic Advisor in their faculty to discuss how an exchange can fit within their academic program.
Students are encouraged to check out this list of resources to help with language learning. From dictionaries to movies, search engines and news outlets, there are many opportunities to immerse yourself in another language.
Students may enter this annual speech contest where three to five minute memorized speeches are presented in Japanese in introductory, intermediate and advanced categories. The contest is open to students who are presently studying Japanese as a foreign language and are of a nationality other than Japanese.
Winners go on to participate in the National Japanese Speech Contest.
The event is co-organized by the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, co-sponsored by The Consulate General of Japan in Calgary and supported by the Japan Foundation and Mitsui Canada.
Check back here for more information and dates for the next contest.
The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme is a Japanese government-sponsored exchange programme that aims to improve foreign language teaching in schools and to promote international understanding.
The JET Programme offers highly qualified university graduates opportunities to work as either Assistant Language Teachers (ALT) in elementary and secondary schools or Coordinators for International Relations (CIR) in selected local government offices in Japan.
The Chinese Language Partner Program promotes language study for students of both the English and Chinese language.
Through the program, native speakers of Chinese help Chinese language students with language learning. In exchange, Chinese language students help students and scholars from China with English.
To participate in the program, please contact:
Shu Zhu
204-474-9557
Shu.Zhu@umanitoba.ca
The Asian Studies Centre strives to be involved in the educational and cultural activities of the Asian communities in Winnipeg and Manitoba.
Some of our current activities and connections:
