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Moore Chinese Track

The Moore School of Business offers a 29-34 month Chinese Track option. The course of study for the Chinese language and area specialization consists of five phases:

Phase I

Year 1: July through December in Columbia
Core Business Curriculum

Chinese Track students start their program in early July on the USC campus, joining students from other tracks to begin the first-year International MBA business management curriculum. This constitutes the internationalized core courses covering leadership, globalization, entrepreneurship, economics, accounting, quantitative methods, finance, management, marketing, information technology and operations management.

Phase II

Year 1: January & February in Columbia
Language, Regional and Global Business Issues Classes

Asian Language Track students undertake their language studies and join other students in a series of elective courses aligned with their geographic and

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functional interests, including courses offered on regional business issues related to Asia, China, India and Japan. Each regional course is taught by a different professor. All are specialists in the region. Other regional issues courses not taken during Phase II may be taken in the second IMBA year (Phase V) as electives.

Phase III

Year 2: March - February of the following year in Asia
Overseas Intensive Chinese Language Study

Students then attend two semesters of additional Chinese language and cultural courses at one of the Moore School’s partner institutions in China (including programs located in Beijing and Shanghai). Language and area studies are approached with a comprehensive set of goals that include a focus on business and culture in the Chinese market. During the second semester in China , students may choose to integrate a co-op with their language studies, in advance of their full time internship that begins in Phase IV. Students may also choose to study or travel during the breaks between semesters.

Phase IV

Year 2: March - August in Asia
Internship

During this period of time, students undertake a six-month internship with a company located in China, usually Shanghai or Beijing, in either a Chinese-owned company or a multinational organization.

Phase V

Year 3: August - May of the following year in Columbia
Elective and Concentration Coursework

U pon completion of the internship, students return to USC to focus on their business concentration courses during fall and spring semesters, at which time they also initiate a fulltime job search. For their final two semesters, students enroll at USC in Columbia for 21 credit hours of electives to obtain a business concentration. Depending on the number of elective credit hours taken in Phase II, it may be possible for students to complete their coursework in December 2008. Students may opt to take one semester at a business school where Moore has established an IMBA exchange agreement. For a current list of these schools, see Moore’s Business School Exchange Programs.

For more information on the Moore School and opportunities in East Asia, China , and Japan , contact the Moore School Recruiting Office at 803-777-1244 or bcollins@ moore.sc.edu.

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