BA Chinese

At Middlebury the study of Mandarin Chinese may be combined with any other academic pursuit, and on the Middlebury faculty are China specialists in the fields of Anthropology, Art History, History, Linguistics, Literature, Political Science, and Religion, all of whom participate in the East Asian Studies track. The Program fully meet the needs of students who want to learn to speak, understand, write and read Mandarin at a high level of proficiency that will allow them to live and work in an entirely Chinese language environment. Our courses are also for students who want to study the world s most widely spoken and written first language for its intrinsic beauty and interest, or for access to Chinese history and culture.