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addition to selecting your area of study, you can choose from several programs:
English
Language program: This intensive English as a second language (ESL) and
homestay experience is designed to improve English language skills. The
program begins each January and lasts one academic semester. The program
includes 15 to 20 credit hours of intensive English language instruction.
Academic
Semester program: This academic and homestay exchange experience is designed
to offer academic and career training courses in a variety of subject areas.
The program begins each January and lasts for one academic semester (approximately
16 weeks in length). The academic load is 12 credit hours for the semester
(equivalent to about four courses).
Certificate
Program: This program is designed to offer academic and career training
in a variety of subject areas for an entire academic year. The academic
load is 12 credit hours per semester.
Degree Program:
This two-year Associate Degree and homestay experience is designed to provide
career skills for those who are returning home, while also offering transferability
of credits to a USA four-year college or university. After the first academic
year living with a host family, students live independently in apartments
during their second year. The program includes a total of 64 credit hours
of tuition.
Four Year
College
program: This program provides students who start in a ASIAMERICA college
program, the opportunity to transfer the academic coursework toward a four
year university. This is an extension of the Degree program, so at the
end of the four-year college program students will have obtained the Associate
degree and the four-year college degree. Students live with a host family
during the first academic year. |
