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The Brittany and Adam J. Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies offers a unique approach to the study of contemporary China through a set of courses on China's language, history, politics, economy, society and foreign relations, and by providing students with experience both on-and-off campus, including three years in Ithaca, one optional semester in Washington D.C., and one required semester in Beijing.
Visualizing the China Transition by Xia Seufert-White reflects on her experiences as a student spending a semester in in China. Through photographs and personal storytelling, Xia shares her observations of daily life, culture, and the contrasts between tradition and modernization that shaped her time there. The project offers an engaging, firsthand perspective on living and…
Majors: Calista Cornet | 院晶深 Leo Glasgow | 郭立鸥 Nile Johnson Genevieve Moore | 莫艾珍 Emily Shen | 沈傳寧 Tianran Song | 宋恬然 Minors: Ally Han | 韩锦阳 Kaleb Kavuma | 康伟明 Owen Sharp | 单培文 Serena Tang | 唐启沅 Kayla Wang | 王凯儿 2026 Levinson Program Commencement Class Speaker Remarks Tianran Song | 宋恬然…
Leo Glasgow is majoring in government and China & Asia-Pacific Studies.
The College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Cornell Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies – and a new faculty director for the program — at an April 24 symposium on the Ithaca campus.
Leaders celebrated the Levinson Program and joined other Cornell delegates at the Cornell-China Forum.
The Levinson Program major in China and Asia-Pacific studies gives students experience both on and off campus, including one required semester in Beijing and one optional semester with Cornell in Washington, during which students participate in internships and cultural immersion. This unique and ambitious program offers CAPS majors unprecedented pre-professional training mapped onto a solid Cornell liberal-arts education.
With three years of intensive Chinese language training, internships in Beijing, and the option to complete additional internships in Washington, D.C., Cornell graduates with a major in CAPS are well suited for entry- or higher-level positions in consulting, journalism, law firms, businesses, financial services, NGOs, diplomacy, and other government and public service agencies. An undergraduate CAPS degree also readily prepares one for graduate studies in law, business, and other disciplines with a focus on China.
Wendy Chen '19: Field Trip to Dunhuang, Gansu Province 甘肃省, 敦煌市 Fall 2017
"Walking in the sand was incredibly tiring, each step was extremely taxing on the body, but it was so worth it. The eight of us got into sledding tubes that were linked to each other and down we go. I cheered as the adrenaline pumped through me, as the wind whipped my hair back, as the small individual grains of sand pelted my face and lodged itself into every single exposed surface of my body and clothes. Still, it was an amazing ride that was much too short for my (and some other people's) liking, inciting cheers of 'one more time!' and 'let's do it again!' as we got off our tubes and tried to shake the sand off of us to no avail."
