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Study Abroad in Japan's Ancient Capital Study abroad in Japan’s ancient capital Language Learning Above and Beyond the Classroom Experience Japan as an Insider with our Homestay Program Associated Kyoto Program Consortium Institutions Join us for Amherst College Oberlin College Bates College Pomona College Bucknell University Smith College Carleton College Whitman College Colby College Wesleyan University Connecticut College Williams College Fall 2018 Spring 2019 Mount Holyoke College Applications available at www.associatedkyotoprogram.org in mid-October 2017 AKP at Doshisha University Founded in 1875, Doshisha University is a comprehensive private educational system comprising multiple institutions from kindergarten through graduate and professional schools. The University’s relations with some of AKP’s sponsoring institutions go back to the very beginning of its history, when its founder, Neesima Jo, graduated from Amherst College in 1870. The historical ties with Amherst and, after World War II, with Carleton College formed the foundation on which the Associated Kyoto Program was established. In January 1971, faculty members from Amherst, Carleton, Connecticut, Mount Holyoke, Wesleyan University, and Williams Colleges met at the Lord Jeffery Inn in Amherst, Massachusetts, and organized the program. The other AKP institutions joined the consortium between 1973 and 1994. Doshisha University supports AKP in many ways. In addition to classrooms, Doshisha has generously made available a number of spaces, including a small library, student lounge, and offices for our administrative staff and faculty. AKP students also have access to the university library, cafeterias, and other public areas. Doshisha serves as our official legal sponsor, enabling AKP to obtain student visas; they also provide student ID cards and extend special student status, including e-mail and library access. Kyoto Program Center The AKP Center occupies part of a handsome, nineteenth-century brick building on the main (Imadegawa) campus of Doshisha University in north central Kyoto. Graced with shade trees and vintage buildings, including five designated by the government as historical monuments, the Imadegawa campus is one of the most beautiful in Japan. Immediately to the south are the forested grounds of the Kyoto Imperial Palace and Park; adjoining the campus to the north is Shokokuji, a major Zen Buddhist monastery complex. With a subway station at Doshisha’s west gate and major bus routes skirting the campus, the AKP Center is easily accessible from anywhere in the Kyoto area. Bates College Colby College AKP at Doshisha University AKP: A National Consortium The Associated Kyoto Program, Inc. (AKP) is a non-profit organization incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It operates an independent program for undergraduate students from sponsoring American colleges and universities in cooperation with Doshisha University’s Organization for Promotion of International Cooperation. Since its inception in 1972, AKP has provided study opportunities in Kyoto for over 1,500 students and, with assistance from foundations and corporations, has provided fellowships to scores of American and Japanese faculty members for research and teaching abroad. Several members from our consortium institutions will offer classes and conduct research during the 2018–2019 academic year. AKP Administrative Office, located on the campus of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, serves as the administrative headquarters for the program. The Chair of the AKP Board of Directors serves as the President of the Corporation; he and the Program Administrator have offices on the Bucknell campus and they coordinate and manage the program. The President of each member institution appoints a faculty representative who serves on the Board that determines all program policies. AKP is one of the only study abroad programs that is governed, managed, and directed by faculty members from liberal arts colleges. AKP Agent College is Oberlin College, which provides fiscal and administrative management for the program and grants academic credit to program participants. If you need an official transcript showing your work at AKP during the 2018–2019 academic year, you must contact the Registrar at the Agent College directly. Transcript requests cannot be handled through the AKP Administrative Office. Picture yourself in Why Kyoto WITH ITS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL RICHNESS, Kyoto is an ideal place to develop a strong sense of Japanese language and culture, and the AKP Center, located at Doshisha University, will serve as a convenient hub from which to explore different paths into the heart of the city. AKP’s academic program will challenge you, while the homestay program will give you a chance to live daily life as the Japanese do. With careful attention to time management, you will also discover many opportunities to participate in the festivals, holidays, and seasonal observances of daily life in the city, as well as visit the museums, temples, and palaces that have been part of the Kyoto landscape for over 1200 years. “Kyoto awaits, offering a surprising range of opportunities to learn, explore, relax, and play. It rewards an adventurous spirit and encourages experimentation. Vocabulary and grammatical patterns you learn in the morning appear on signs or in snippets of overheard conversations. Places, events, and concepts you study in the afternoon inform your visit to a nearby shrine, the Kamogawa, or the bustling downtown. The synergy, unique to you and your experience, is your reward for leaving your comfort zone, trying something new, and sharing your discoveries. Kyoto awaits you.” Erik R. Lofgren, AKP Chair 2011–12 AKPer Adam Merry (Claremont Student photo of Kiyomizu-dera 2016–17 AKPer Daphne Hernandez (Colby) McKenna) helps preschoolers make mochi. surrounded by autumn leaves. gives a presentation in Japanese about her hitori-tabi solo trip. “I know I am now a lot more confident and capable when exploring a new place. Before coming to Japan on AKP, talking to people I didn’t know made me very nervous, but now I just tell myself if I was able to talk to strangers in Japanese, there’s no reason to be nervous talking to them in English!” – 2016 AKPer W hy AKP? Kyoto is acclaimed by Japanese and foreigners alike as one of the world’s great cities, the embodiment in place and spirit of Japan’s rich cultural heritage. It is also a thriving modern metropolis of almost a million and a half people, attentive to its future and proud of its past. Impressive reminders of Kyoto’s historical role as Japan’s capital from 794 to 1868 survive in great number, making it an ideal location for the serious study of both traditional and modern Japanese society and civilization. SEMINARS LANGUAGE STUDY HOMESTAY AKP mirrors the academic standards and the Become a linguistic adventurer: we recommend that Experience Japan as an insider: the homestay program emphasis on a sound liberal arts program that you find opportunities to speak and learn about is fully integrated into the AKP language and elective remain the hallmark of our fourteen consortium Japan and Kyoto with the people you meet everyday. program. Host families provide students with a unique institutions. AKP sponsors a Visiting Faculty You will have the added advantage of daily contact window through which to view Japan and afford Fellows Program that recruits some of the with the AKP language and elective course teachers, students countless chances to communicate, explore, finest teachers from the consortium to offer the office staff, and your homestay family, who will and experience Japan as a member of a Japanese special elective classes that will foster a deeper provide you with opportunities to ask questions and family. They will connect you with your community understanding of Japan’s long and complex cultural chat about your experiences. and provide opportunities for cultural learning and history. discovery. • Explore issues in comparative culture • Four experienced language teachers provide • Enjoy a home-cooked breakfast and dinner each with Doshisha University students in the AKP students with an intensive, 8 credit, day with your host family; every year students AKP–Doshisha Joint Seminar, a chance no fast-paced immersion into written and spoken rave about the dishes and stories shared across other program offers. Japanese. the table. AKP also provides a daily lunch subsidy (seven days/week) and covers commuting costs • Take special seminar courses on Japanese • An opening review session that includes an from your homestay to the AKP Center. Environmentalism, Film, Literature, and introduction to Kyoto dialect will be followed Translation. by oral and written tests that will place students • Know that you can always consult with the in one of several language sections. Resident Director, AKP’s full-time Homestay • Study with professors from Bucknell, Oberlin, Coordinator, and the language faculty about any Carleton, and Doshisha University. • Language teachers also coordinate many lessons concerns or just to learn new ways to tell your that connect students with ideas and themes homestay family that you will be late for dinner. introduced in the elective seminar classes. • Above: Students being ritually purified under • Above: Students dress up for Halloween (Fall • Above: Ava Prince (Oberlin) enjoying Lake Biwa a waterfall at Inunakisan in Osaka prefecture 2016) with her host mother. during a Japanese Religion course field trip. • All students speak Japanese with
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