Background Info!

I have just agreed to teach some business classes in China for 5 weeks this spring (from May 27th to June 30th, 2011). I will be teaching at a small college called E&A College.

The college campus is located in a "small" Chinese city of 2 million people, called Quihuangdao. This city is located on the coast of the Yellow Sea, and is approximately 3 hours north of Beijing. It is considered a bit of a resort town, and is used to get away from the oppressive heat in Beijing during the summer. It is also well known as being the "starting point" of the Great Wall of China!

The actual college was jointly established in 2002 by Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology and Medicine Hat College. E&A is known as a Sino-Foreign joint institution for higher education.  The College has more than 250 full–time teachers, and provides education to almost 5000 students on the campus, 3700 of whom are degree students.

I will be teaching in the Business Administration Department, but as to which courses I will be teaching, I am not quite sure what they will be just yet!

 

Picture of the college campus

Students can choose to apply to study at Medicine Hat College after they have studied for two years at E&A College. We currently have some 70 to 100 students who have taken advantage of this option, and are presently studying at MHC this year. The idea is to continue developing this cooperative relationship, and one of the ways of doing this is to encourage some MHC College instructors go over and teach on the Chinese campus. Hopefully, this will help me to better understand and improve the "international" experience for those students who come to Canada.