The University of Oregon’s East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL) and the Chinese Flagship Program offer a Global Competency curriculum with regular multi-disciplinary courses from Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Business, Human Physiology, Film, and PPPM, taught exclusively in Chinese by UO Chinese speaking faculty. The integrated curriculum is designed to help students develop superior-level language skills while pursing degrees in the academic major of their choice.

Incoming freshman, Lea Anderson is a highly motivated, academically excellent student who started studying Chinese during her sophomore year in high school. A talented language learner, she was chosen to be one of the first year-long high school Rotary exchange students to study in Beijing, China. This Fall she will live in the UO Chinese Flagship International House, take the Flagship Green Chemistry and correlate Language Strategies courses, and begin pursuing her degree in International Business. By her junior year, Lea’s Chinese will be at the level that she can study side-by-side with students in her major, directly enrolled in courses at Nanjing University. In addition to course work, she will conduct research, volunteer, and complete a community practicum all in support of her senior year Chinese honors thesis. Lea is committed to making a difference in U.S.-China relations; she hopes to combine her academics and Chinese in a meaningful way to contribute to peace and cooperation.

Currently, there are over 50 thousand young Americans learning Chinese in K-12 programs across the country; funded in part through “The Language Flagship Program.” The University of Oregon has the only four-year fully articulated advanced Chinese Flagship Program poised to provide these students with the tools they need to become academically and linguistically skilled global professionals.

To find out more about the program, visit http://casls.uoregon.edu/uoflagship/