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Study Abroad in Japan's Ancient Capital Study abroad in Japan’s ancient capital Associated Kyoto Program Join us for Consortium Institutions Amherst College Oberlin College Bates College Pomona College Bucknell University Smith College Carleton College Whitman College Fall 2019 Colby College Wesleyan University Connecticut College Williams College Spring 2020 Mount Holyoke College Applications available at www.associatedkyotoprogram.org in mid-October 2018 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, and Williams Colleges, and Wesleyan University. met at the Lord Jeffery Inn in Amherst, Massachusetts, and organized the program. The other AKP institutions joined the consortium between 1973 and 2008. Doshisha University supports AKP in many ways. In addition to classrooms, Doshisha has generously made available a number of spaces, including a student lounge, a joint library for English language resources, 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 Kyoto 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 Shōkokuji, a major Zen Buddhist monastery complex. With a subway station at Doshisha’s west gate and major bus routes skirting the campus, the Kyoto Center is easily accessible from anywhere in the Kyoto area. 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, the AKP has provided study opportunities in Kyoto for over 1,600 students and, with assistance from foundations and corporations, has provided fellowships to scores of American and Japanese faculty members for research and teaching abroad. Four faculty members from our consortium institutions will offer classes and conduct research during the 2019–20 academic year. The AKP Administrative Office, located on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California, 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 Pomona 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. Indeed, the AKP is one of the only study abroad programs that is governed, managed, and directed by faculty members from liberal arts colleges. The 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 2019–20 academic year, you must contact the Registrar at the AKP Agent College directly. Transcript requests cannot be handled through the AKP Administrative Office. PICTURE YOURSELF IN WITH ITS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL RICHNESS, WHY AKP? 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 Kyoto 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. PROGRAM DATES 2019-20 ACADEMIC YEAR PROGRAM DATES (TENTATIVE) • Arrive in Kyoto: Tuesday, 3 September 2019 • End of program: Thursday, 23 April 2020 2019 FALL PROGRAM DATES (TENTATIVE) • Arrive in Kyoto: Tuesday, 3 September 2019 • End of program: Sunday, 22 December 2019 2020 SPRING PROGRAM DATES (TENTATIVE) • Arrive in Kyoto: Tuesday, 7 January 2020 Doshisha University Imadegawa Campus • End of program: Thursday, 23 April 2020 2016–17 AKPers pose with the Hanshin Tigers Spring 2017 AKPer Summer Peterson (Bates) 2016–17 AKPer Daphne Hernandez (Colby) mascots after a baseball game. and Jacques Chaumont (Williams) enjoy a tra- gives a presentation in Japanese about her ditional meal during a field trip to Hiroshima. 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 WHY 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 remain you find opportunities to speak and learn about is fully integrated into the AKP language and elective the hallmark of our thirteen consortium institutions. Japan and Kyoto with the people you meet every day. program. Host families provide students with a unique AKP sponsors a Visiting Faculty Fellows Program You will have the added advantage of daily contact window through which to view Japan and afford that recruits some of the finest professors from the with the AKP language and elective course teachers, students countless chances to communicate, explore, consortium to offer special elective classes that will the office staff, and your homestay family, who will and experience Japan by living with a Japanese family. foster a deeper understanding of Japan’s long and provide you with opportunities to ask questions and They will connect you with your community and provide complex cultural history. chat about your experiences. opportunities for cultural learning and discovery. • Explore issues in comparative culture with • Four experienced language instructors provide • Enjoy a home-cooked breakfast and dinner each Doshisha University students in the AKP– AKP students with an intensive, 8 credit, fast- day with your host family; every year students rave Doshisha Joint Seminar. paced immersion into written and spoken about the dishes and stories shared across the table. Japanese. AKP also provides a daily lunch subsidy (seven • Take special seminar courses on Japanese days/week) and covers commuting costs from your Cinema, Environmental Studies, Economy, and • An opening review session that includes an homestay to the Doshisha campus. more! introduction to Kyoto dialect will be followed by oral and written tests that will place students in • Know that you can always consult with the Resident • Study with professors from Pitzer College, one of several language sections. Director, AKP’s full-time Homestay Coordinator, Bucknell University, and Trinity Washington and the language faculty about any concerns or just University. • Language instructors also coordinate many to learn new ways to tell your homestay family that lessons that connect students with ideas and you will be late for dinner. • Students take two elective courses a semester, themes introduced in the elective seminar classes. each worth 4 credits. • All students speak Japanese with their homestay • Visit the AKP website for updated information families and are challenged to speak Japanese at on 2019–2020 course offerings. the AKP Center. 2017–18 AKPer Celia Langford (Whitman) and Spring 2018 AKPers practice Buddhist medita- Spring 2018 AKPer JJ Simons (Bucknell) meets Spring 2018 AKPer Juno Son (Amherst) dress tion during an elective course
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