The Global Professional Service (GPS) Corps places advanced non-native speakers of Chinese in Chinese organizations for full-time project-driven domain-specific internships lasting 3-12 months.
Participants learn how to make themselves valued contributors to a Chinese operation in the participant’s field of knowledge.
Past internships include:
Tenwen Law Offices; Ries, Chuang & Wong Branding Strategies; CCTV; Hunan Television; China Investment & Trade Commission; Guizhou World Bank Cultural Heritage Preservation Project
Applicants must have:
• Existing Chinese proficiency
• An identified area of specialization or domain
Because interns are doing real work, all internship hosts provide some form of compensation. Depending on the host, this ranges from free housing to a full-time salary.
The 2011 program fee of $5,500 includes visa arrangement, a 2-week pre-internship workshop, workshop housing, internship placement and supervision, and internship verification for home institution credit transfer.
For more information, contact Professor Xiaobin Jian at jian.1@osu.edu.