ABOUT CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE

• Introduction
• Background
• Partner
• Programs
• Faculty
• Contacts

INTRODUCTION

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BACKGROUND

The Ateneo de Manila University began in 1859 when Spanish Jesuits established the Escuela Municipal de Manila, a public primary school established in Intramuros for the city of Manila.

Since 1952, Quezon City in Metropolitan Manila has served as the home for the University, which houses the Loyola Schools composed of the John Gokongwei School of Management, the School of Humanities, the School of Social Sciences, and the School of Science and Engineering. Presently, the undergraduate and the graduate levels combined have eight thousand students.

The University also has primary and secondary schools within the campus, occupying a total land area of 85 hectares.  There are two campuses for the professional schools in Makati City.

The University offers its students a holistic form of education, not only concentrating on developing the technical skills for their chosen fields, but also imbuing the social spirit of being men and women for others.

The University’s Chinese Studies Program has been teaching Mandarin and a broad spectrum of Chinese Studies courses at the higher education level since 1987.  It pioneered the use of the Hanyu Pinyin method of romanization and the simplified Chinese script for teaching Mandarin Chinese in the Philippines, and has a substantial pool of experts in various areas of Chinese Studies.

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CHINESE PARTNER UNIVERSITY

The Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University has as its Chinese partner Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China.

Founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, SYSU is one of China’s top universities with strong programs in the arts, science, and medicine. It has four campuses with a total land area of 6.17 square kilometers, and a student population of 28,000 undergraduate and 17,000 graduate students.

The latter’s linkage of Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University with SYSU is through School of Overseas Educational Exchange (SOEE), which has a very strong Department of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.

SYSU sends two faculty members, experts at teaching Chinese as a foreign language,   to the Confucius Institute at the ADMU to help in teaching, training, translation and administrative work.

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PROGRAMS

• TEACHER TRAINING

The Institute cooperates with the Ateneo de Manila University’s Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies in organizing an annual summer seminar-workshop for Mandarin language teachers in the higher education level.  This program includes training in language, pedagogy, methodology, and various areas of Chinese Studies.

• LANGUAGE COURSES

Regular classes are offered at the University’s Quezon City and Makati City campuses, as well as at Xavier School in San Juan City.

The courses offered include Basic Mandarin Chinese (7 Levels), Intermediate Mandarin Chinese (6 Levels), Business Mandarin Chinese, Hokkien Chinese, and Classical Chinese.

Courses of thirty hours each are conducted three times a year, with a growing number of students in every batch.  When the Institute started offering the language courses in late 2006, less than one hundred students enrolled.   In less than a year,  the student population has increased to over 350 students per cycle.

• CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

The Institute organizes film festivals, exhibits, competitions, China study tours, and other activities to deepen Filipinos’ awareness and understanding of China and the Chinese.

It also offers courses in Chinese painting and the Taiqi form of martial arts.

• HSK TESTING

The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) is the Chinese government’s Chinese proficiency examination.  The Institute will offer review classes and testing.

• FORUMS ON CHINA-RELATED ISSUES

Confucius Institute provides the language component in the seminar Doing Business in China, organized by the University’s Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies.  The seminar is organized every year and attended by graduate students and young professionals.

• RESOURCE CENTER FOR CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CHINESE STUDIES MATERIALS

• NETWORKING WITH CHINESE LANGUAGE COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL, UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA, AND WITH OTHER CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES IN THE PHILIPPINES AND AROUND THE WORLD.

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FACULTY

The faculty is made up of teachers from the Ateneo de Manila University Chinese Studies Program and Xavier School, as well as professors from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

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CONTACT DETAILS

Quezon City Office:

Confucius Institute

2nd Floor, Ricardo and Dr. Rosita Leong Hall

School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools

Ateneo de Manila University

Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City

Tel       632-426-6001 (locals 5208 and 5209)

Fax      632-9265118 or 632-9295397

Email   confucius@admu.edu.ph

Makati Office:

Confucius Institute

5th Floor, Ateneo Professional Schools

H.V. dela Costa Street

Salcedo Village, Makati City

Tel       632-8125617

Fax      632-8400266

Email   confucius@admu.edu.ph

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