The Chinese Flagship Program at Brigham Young University (BYU) was established in 2002 by a grant from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) to develop high level proficency in the Chinese Language.

The Chinese Flagship Center at BYU is highly individualized and allows students to successfully focus on the particular academic and professional interests.

The Advanced Flagship Program includes three main curriculum phases: 1) BYU on-campus directed study, 2) Direct enrollment at Nanjing University in China, and 3) an Internship in a Chinese institution related to the student's specific area of interest. Our first group of students began the program in 2003 and we are just beginning to welcome our seventh cohort of students on campus fall 2009. The success of our earlier cohorts in implementing the linguistic and cultural skills they learned throughout their course of study is receiving special recognition throughout the government, the community, BYU, and our Chinese partners.

Dr. Dana Bourgerie, Associate Professor of Chinese in the BYU Asian and Near Eastern Languages Department, is the Program Director assistant by associate director and academic director, Dr. Mathew Christensen. The program is affiliated with BYU's Center for Language Studies (CLS) in the College of Humanities, headed by Dr. Ray Clifford.