Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

The HNC Application, Monday, February 1 , is right around the corner!  Make sure you submit your online application by 11:59pm EST on that date. Transcripts Digital or hard copy official transcripts are a required portion of your application. The quickest way to have official transcripts arrive in our office is to have your undergraduate university send an electronic copy to nanjing@jhu.edu . However, if you have a copy of your transcripts on hand, you can email a PDF of them to us to complete your application. Please note that if you are admitted, we will then require that an official transcript be sent directly from your undergraduate institution.   Test Scores STAMP Chinese Proficiency Test If you take the STAMP test right before the deadline and have not yet received your results, you can leave this section blank and still submit your application before February 1. We keep an official record of your STAMP score on file. GRE/GMAT It can take 2-3 weeks for o...

Over winter break, SAIS students joined Professor David Brown and Professor Carla Freeman of the China Studies Department on a week long trip to learn more about the recent Taiwan elections. Twelve students, many of which who completed Professor Brown's Cross-Strait Relations course this past semester, joined the trip to Taipei, Tainan and Beijing. HNC Certificate/SAIS MA student, Han May Chan, shares highlights from the trip. Day 1 - 1.12.2016 - Visit to New Power Party Headquarters, Taipei ROC We visited the headquarters of New Power Party (NPP).  NPP's founding members consisted of leaders who headed the Sunflower Movement, mass student protest in Taiwan in 2014.  Most of their slogans and missions emphasized on appealing to younger generations about many social issues in Taiwan.  New Power Party is a fairly new political party operating on the grassroots level and their headquarters is a simple compound. Visiting the NPP Headquart...

Recognizing the importance of US-China cooperation on environmental issues, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center added a specialization in Energy, Resources, and Environment (ERE) in 2014 and offers students an array of courses and activities each semester. Chinese language ERE courses are taught by faculty from Nanjing University’s School of the Environment--a top environmental management program in China-- and include classes on China’s Development and the Environment, Water Resources, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, and Environmental Economics. Professor Roger Raufer, who has worked on pollution control and energy issues in China for 26 years, has been a resident faculty member at the HNC since 2014. Raufer offers courses in English on Air Pollution and its Control, Economic Instruments for Pollution Control, Challenges in the Global Environment, and Global Energy Fundamentals. The HNC also takes students to visit local environmental projects---recent visits include a state-of-t...

As the Career Counselor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC), I have the opportunity to speak with employers about their hiring needs and practices. A consistent sentiment expressed is that the competition for entry-level positions across all fields is greater than ever. There was a time when foreign nationals who spoke Chinese but had no prior work experience were competitive for many positions. Those days are gone. Today, entry-level employees interested in working in China must couple strong Chinese language skills with relevant experience and desirable skills. Considering this landscape, students are faced with an inevitable challenge: how do you acquire experience in a field if every position seems to require that you’ve had prior experience? Perhaps the most practical solution is to do an internship. Before considering whether to intern the first thing you must do is assess whether an opportunity is, in fact, an internship or whether it is simply titled as such to make it attracti...

With the application deadline less than one month away, the HNC Washington Office has been receiving many questions about the application process. Below we have some tips for preparing your application and navigating the application process.  Join Admissions Representatives on January 27th from 10:00-11:00am EST for a virtual information session with more application advice. To join the chat, click on this link at the scheduled time. This is a good opportunity to ask any last minute questions before the February 1st application deadline . If you have questions in the meantime, email nanjing@jhu.edu to speak with an admissions representative. We are always happy to speak with you over the phone or arrange a time to Skype. Chinese Language Proficiency (STAMP )Test The STAMP test is an online, multiple-choice test that takes about two hours to complete. The only required portions of the test are the reading and listening sections. You will see writing and speaking sections on ...

Outside of all student groups and activities at the HNC, students also get involved in the Nanjing community. This year HNC students have been able to share American culture through football. James Fitzgerald, Second-year MAIS student and the coach for a local American football team, Nanjing Emperor Kings, is pleased to report the first win for the team. After a year of local development, the Nanjing Emperor Kings, the first fully padded American Football team of Nanjing, won their first game in club history against the Fudan University Dragoons. Seven students from the Hopkins Nanjing Center participated in the event as players, referees, and the head coach of the Nanjing team. The event included cheerleaders, food and drink for sale and a news team covering the game on and off the field. The Emperor Kings have games arranged for the fall and spring hoping to raise their level of play to eventually join the national circuit and compete against teams from all over China. ...

Hey everyone! This week I wanted to go over a few questions regarding academia at HNC. I am a first year student in the MAIS program at HNC. Here are some questions commonly asked: Study room at the HNC Does the Hopkins-Nanjing Center take a multi-disciplinary approach to academics? Overall yes, but some of the economic courses may take a more quantitative approach as their topic suggests. Most of the courses I am taking this semester are focused on Chinese studies and politics. There are classes available to you within five areas of study: Chinese studies, International Law, International Economics, International Politics and ERE (Energy, Resources and Environment). I will be taking courses from the other sections in the following semesters (MAIS students are required to take at least one course from each section) so I can tell you guys more about my experience with those classes then! How challenging are the Chinese-language courses? This really depends on your Chinese ...