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CPI University’s study abroad program is in its eleventh year and to date has covered four of the six inhabitable continents. In March, a group of 22 including three chaperons enjoyed 13 days in China.

Study abroad programs are generally imagined in the traditional college setting where students spend a semester away. According to Dr. Glenn Corillo, faculty director of ECPI University’s program, only a third of colleges follow that format while the remaining two-thirds use the same model as ECPI University with two weeks abroad.

Students from ECPI University, Medical Careers Institute and the Culinary Institute of Virginia in Hampton Roads enrolled in Communication 205, Culture and Diversity. Students were in class for two weeks learning about the places and the culture they would visit, two weeks abroad, and then back to the class room for one week.

• A visit to Tiananmen Square, the largest town square in the world

• A visit to the Forbidden Palace

• A visit to the Terra Cotta Museum where 8,000 clay soldiers are buried underground

• A visit to Banpo village to see how ancient Chinese lived

• A performance of a Kung Fu show • A visit to a Buddha temple

• A visit to Nanjing Road which is much like Times Square in New York • An acrobatic performance • Shopping at Stanley Market

Students learned interesting aspects about China during the

THE HEAD OF THE CLASS

Students Head to China for ECPI’s Study Abroad Program