Scholarship

Illinois for Illinois (I4I) Study Abroad Undergraduate Student Scholarship

Offering approximately $250,000 in scholarship money annually, awarding approximately 100 scholarships each semester.

Awards range from $500 to $5,000, and will be divided among the following categories:

• General merit
• Financial need
• Underrepresented student (students of Latina/o, African American, or Native American/Alaskan Native heritage)
• Non-traditional destination (study in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or Central or Eastern Europe)

Eligibility

Students will be considered for only one award per cycle. Students who do not win an award may re-apply each subsequent cycle. However, students who have already won an award may apply for a new one, in a subsequent cycle, if they intend to participate in an additional study abroad program.

To be eligible to apply for the scholarship, students must:

1. Intend to be enrolled, undergraduate, degree-seeking students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the time of study abroad;
2. Meet academic requirements of their Illinois college to be eligible to study abroad;
3. Identify a study abroad program, approved by the University of Illinois, to which they intend to apply or have already applied; and
4. Pay the $5 study abroad scholarship fee during the semester in which they apply.

The deadline to apply for the Winter session and Spring 2009 semester is October 1, 2008.

For more information, contact the Study Abroad Office by email at sao@illinois.edu or visit the Web site.

Tentative Schedule

1.December 27, Saturday. Leave Chicago O’Hare International Airport for Shanghai.
2.December 28, Sunday, Beijing Time (14 hours ahead of America Central Time). Arrive at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Pick up by SJU’s coach bus for the one-hour ride to the historical SJU downtown campus at Xujiahui, Shanghai Central Business District. Welcome banquet.
3.December 29, Monday
8am: Breakfast (the same hereafter)
9-11am: History of Shanghai and of SJU
11am-1pm: Lunch at the Faculty Lounge
1-2pm: Language class I: Learn how to do things in Chinese in 1 hour!
2-9pm: Tour of SJU campus; get to know the neighborhood and the Xujiahui area
6:30pm: dinner at Element Fresh
4.December 30, Tuesday
9-11am: Language and culture class: How to get around in Shanghai
1-5pm: Sightseeing – Yuyuan Garden, Town God Temple (Chenghuangmiao) Market
8pm: Sightseeing: Nanjing Road Pedestrian Splendor and The Bund
5.December 31, Wednesday
9-11am: Language class: The first impression
1-3pm: Guest lecture: Doing business in Shanghai and China internship opportunities
8pm: New Year’s Eve Celebration on Hengshan Road!
6.Jan. 1, Thursday
Relaxation. Catch up with your journal
7.Jan. 2, Friday
9-11am, Language class
1-3pm, Lecture: Shanghai, China, and Globalization
8.Jan. 3, Saturday
9-11 am, Chinese art
Afternoon: Shanghai Museum
9pm: Cotton Club, the best jazz band in Shanghai!
9.Jan. 4, Sunday
1-3pm: History of Hangzhou
10.Jan. 5, Monday
Board the early morning train for the one-hour ride to the most beautiful city in China – Hangzhou; tour of West Lake
11.Jan. 6, Tuesday
Longjing Tea Plantation; Qiantang River Tide
12.Jan. 7, Wednesday
Lingyin Temple; board the late afternoon train back to Shanghai
13.Jan. 8, Thursday
1-3pm, Chinese Calligraphy class
14.Jan. 9, Friday
9-11am, Lecture: Chinese Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship
1-3pm, Chinese Calligraphy class
15.Jan. 10, Saturday
Morning tour of the Pudong Financial District and of the Pearl of the Orient
Get your calligraphy pieces finished into rolls and your seals done
16.Jan. 11, Sunday
Xin tiandi (New World): the traditional Shanghai residence and the founding of the Chinese Communist Party
17.Jan. 12, Monday
Take the one-day tour of Zhou Zhuang, the charming village on the rivers
18.Jan. 13, Tuesday
Shanghai acrobatics show; farewell banquet
19.Jan. 14, Wednesday
Fly back to the States

LAS 199: Winter in Shanghai

Time: Dec. 27, 2008-Jan. 14, 2009

Place: Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xuhui Campus

Address: 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai

Course Description

What can be more fitting to study globalization than in Shanghai, one of the most dynamic and thoroughly globalized cities in not only China but also the entire world? Our course will be based at Shanghai Jiaotong University, in its historical downtown campus. Our focus will be Shanghai: its colonial history, its leading role in China’s rapid economic development and in urbanization, its central role in financial capitalism, and its future during China’s battles with bottlenecks in sustainable development and with environmental destruction. Besides touring the city’s fascinating combination of tradition with modern, we will also see an ancient fishing village and a mid-size city in Hangzhou for contrasting perspectives.