Confucius Institute at IUPUI

Is the Olympic buzz stirring your interest in Chinese history and culture? Consider signing up for one of the many new classes at the Confucius Institute, a division of the IUPUI Community Learning Network. Here are the classes offered this fall:

• Chinese Civilization.
• Chinese Cooking.
• Chinese Festivals and Customs.
• Chinese Martial Arts.
• Conversational Chinese.
• Beginning Chinese.
• Chinese Character Writing.

All classes are eight weeks long and are held one evening per week in September and October. Cost is $139 to $185 per class. (The exception is Chinese Character Writing, which is during the day on Thursdays in September and costs $79.)