Kyoto is the cultural heart of Japan, and its living heritage provides a rich context for the Intensive Japanese Program at Kyoto Seika University.

Universities and colleges are invited to send student groups to study Japanese language at KSU in Kyoto, on individually-designed courses incorporating both intensive language classes and valuable cultural experience.

*This program is offered to institutions on a group basis. If you would like to send less than seven students, please consult with the program coordinator.


In class, with Seika students assisting


Tea ceremony participants

SPECIAL FEATURES OF OUR INTENSIVE JAPANESE PROGRAM

This Program is designed flexibly, according to the needs of the home institution:

• You choose its duration and the time of year when it is held. Most intensive Japanese courses are scheduled for summer, or over a full academic year. The flexibility of our program allows you to integrate it seamlessly into your academic calendar. The duration may be less than one month, or up to three months if required.
• Our Japanese language instructors work with you to plan classes. Together, we create original Japanese lessons that are responsive to your students’ specific needs.
• Cultural experience in addition to language. The cultural component of this program includes tea ceremony, hands-on calligraphy experience, lectures and selected field trips.


Hands-on demonstration with Seika's Kendo Club

• We provide experienced advice and assistance in planning additional field trips. Your students will benefit greatly from exposure to such special events as local festivals and other "must-see" features of Kyoto, Japan’s former Imperial capital.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• On campus facilities. Since the Intensive Japanese Program is held on our university’s campus, students and accompanying staff can make free use of our extensive library and audio-visual center (including a well-stocked manga and anime collection, and diverse other movies and documentaries on video, laser-disk and DVD), with easy Internet access, and a well-equipped gymnasium. Not to mention our low-priced cafeteria, coffee lounge, and bakery...
• Student contact
When an Intensive Japanese Program is held during semester, your students can interact with Seika students, making new friends and gaining deeper understanding of Japanese student life and Japanese society.If they stay at KSU dorms, they can also make contact with other overseas students from many countries, all of whom are fluent in Japanese.
 

Student Support
International Office
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Student Life in Kyoto
 


Whisking green tea
JAPANESE CULTURE PROGRAM

The Intensive Japanese Program includes a Japanese culture program, with various afternoon lectures on aspects of Japan, and opportunities to experience Japanese cultural activities.


Calligraphy class

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"The trips to the temples and all of the coordination between Bard and Seika were really fantastic. I was really impressed by how well everything was put together for us, and I truly appreciate it. The students we worked with were really accommodating as well (I can’t imagine what they really felt about sitting in a classroom practicing basic dialogue with Americans), and now I can say that I learned about Kendo in its country of origin. It’s things like that that really make a trip worth taking. All things considered, this program is a good one."

-Participant, May-June 2004
Contact:

Intensive Japanese Program
C/o International Office
137 Kino-cho, Iwakura, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8588 Japan

Tel: + 81 75 702 5199
Fax: +81 75 7054028

Email: ksuinted@kyoto-seika.ac.jp