The proposed new course titled "CHINA STUDIO: Designing New and Alternative Urban/Rural Environments" will build off of the groundwork laid by two previously offered three credit courses but will extend and expand these into a six credit design studio to be offered in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the 2013 and 2014 fall terms. The currently offered "Field-Based Interdisciplinary Course: Toward a New Sustainable Environment in Light of the Changing Face of Rural (and Urban) China" was developed with a CRLT Faculty Development Fund Grant and undertaken in cooperation with the U.M. Graham Institute of Environmental Sustainability, the U.M. Center for Global and Intercultural Studies, the Beijing University of Technology and the Beijing Municipality and Township of Pearl Spring. The program has allowed students in the spring terms of 2011 and 2012 to deeply investigate, firsthand, many of the complex phenomena occurring in and between urban and rural China today. For the past six years I have been teaching an ongoing seminar on the Ann Arbor campus titled "China Inside Out" in which we examine many of the same phenomena through studying current and historical scholarly texts, Chinese and foreign press, citizen's and villager's microblogs, Chinese cinema and contemporary Chinese art.