Unfortunately, all spots have been allocated in the Waseda Oregon Summer Program. Please apply to the 4-week program, as there are still spots available.

Overview

The Waseda Summer Japanese Program is an accelerated language program offered by the Center for Japanese Language, Waseda University in conjunction with Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA. Since 1999, over 400 students have participated in the Summer Japanese Program, which takes place entirely in Japan.

The Waseda Summer Japanese Program is suitable for students who:

The program takes up to 60 participants from all over the United States and the world. In 2005, Summer Program participants came from the United States, Singapore, ROC Taiwan, PR China, Germany, Korea, Canada and the UK. Participants also came from over 31 different colleges and universities, including the University of Washington, Duke University, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Brown University, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, UT Austin, University of Western Australia, University College London, Stanford University, University of British Columbia, University of Kansas and Northwestern University.

The Waseda Summer Japanese Program offers 12-15 quarter credits (8-10 semester credits) of Japanese language in six weeks. The first two weeks take place at the Waseda Seminar House in Kamogawa, and special introductory and orientation courses will be offered. Weeks three through six, the program takes place at the main Nishi-waseda campus.

The Summer Japanese Program has four (4) levels of Comprehensive Japanese and over twenty (20+) modular Japanese Language Workshops. The Comprehensive Japanese level that a student is placed into determines which Workshops he/she can take. Waseda gives a placement test to all participants, no matter what their language background. Students are placed into the Comprehensive Japanese classes based on the placement test alone (not a student's academic transcript). For more on the courses offered, please go to Japanese Language Program.

If you are interested in the 4-week Summer Program option, please go to this link.