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Imagine earning graduate credit while experiencing China's business environment, culture and economy! Bluffton University's Graduate Programs in Business is offering students and alumni the opportunity to participate in a business study trip to China June 14-28, 2008.
Participants will travel to Beijing, the political and cultural center of China; to Shanghai, China’s largest city and the core of its economy; and Chongqing, a major player in China’s manufacturing sector. 
The group will tour Chinese manufacturing facilities, visit Chinese businesses, MBA programs, retail establishments; and examine the Chinese transportation and environments. Along the way they'll visit with local business people and discuss with them their experience with human resources, finance, production, and legal issues. They will be exposed to China’s culture and, among other things, will visit the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City, the site of the 2008 Olympics, museums, and cultural shows. Of course, they'll also enjoy the tastes, sights and sounds that modern Chinese cities offer.
Dr. Karen Klassen Harder, professor of business and economics, will serve as educational/discussion leader. Myrrl Byler, director of Mennonite Partners in China, will be the travel planner/tour guide/translator. Klassen Harder has traveled extensively outside North America, and Byler has 25 years of experience in leading trip to China.
The China business study trip can be taken for one or two hours of graduate credit or as a non-credit experience. If taken for credit, it can replace one or two of the one-semester-hour short course(s) within the graduate programs in business. The trip is open to MBA and MAOM current students and alumni, and their families and friends; BCOMP students and alumni, and their families and friends; and Bluffton University faculty and staff.
For more information, contact:
Office of Adult and Graduate Education
800-488-3257, option 4
419-358-3897
adulted@bluffton.edu
