Cornell University's Full-year Asian Language Concentration Program (FALCON) is currently accepting applications for 2001-2002, which marks the program's 30th year of continuous operation.

FALCON is a full-year intensive program in Chinese or Japanese language only. It consists of a nine-week summer term, and sixteen-week fall and spring terms. Applicants may take all or only a portion of the program, provided they have sufficient Japanese or Chinese to pass a placement test. The program offers up to nine productive hours of exposure to Chinese or Japanese per day, five days per week, for periods of up to a full calendar year. In one year students are able to achieve a working proficiency equivalent to three or more years of college-level work and a level of fluency rarely, if ever, achieved in an academic program, regardless of length. Applications from college and post-college individuals from any institution as well as from mature and serious high school students are considered. FALCON is well-suited to those in academics, in the professions or in government and military careers.

US citizens or permanent residents applying at graduate level qualify to apply for a FLAS fellowship through the Cornell East Asia Program and/or for financial assistance through Cornell. Application deadline for fellowships has been extended to February 26, 2001. Those wishing to apply for the FLAS must get all materials in by the February 26 deadline. General application for FALCON admission should be received by March 1, but applicants are admitted after that date on a rolling basis provided space is available. Special note: The 2002 spring term of Chinese FALCON will most likely be located in Beijing.

For more information and application forms, please visit our website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/asian/falcon.htm/ or contact the program by e-mail at FALCON@cornell.edu or by phone at (607) 255-6457.

FALCON Program, Department of Asian Studies Cornell University 125 Rockefeller Hall Ithaca, NY 14853

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