JAPN 420: Maximizing Study Abroad Experiences
Course Description: Your study abroad experience is potentially a rich opportunity for you to enhance your language skills and deepen your understanding of other cultures, people and their practices. This course provides the resources to help you prepare for your study abroad experiences. This course is taught in English.
As the course description implies, JAPN 420 is a course intended on equiping with prospective study abroad students with the insight and background knowledge necessary to make full use of their time while studying abroad at one of Japan's many universities.
We covered a wide range of topics in discussion with teachers and student aids who previously studied at the Japanese universities we all were intending on studying abroad at. These discussion topics ranged from financial considerations such as how to save while abroad and how to effectively make use of your time inside and outside of the classroom during your stay in Japan.
What I found especially helpful among the many exercises that we engaged in while taking this course where Journal posts in which us prospective study abroad students outlined our goals for our time abroad, the reason being that I am without a doubt the kind of learner that works best by organizing one's thought's on paper. You can actually read my original post and my thought's concerning that original post nearly 2 years later in my Study Abroad section of this website!
We covered a wide range of topics in discussion with teachers and student aids who previously studied at the Japanese universities we all were intending on studying abroad at. These discussion topics ranged from financial considerations such as how to save while abroad and how to effectively make use of your time inside and outside of the classroom during your stay in Japan.
What I found especially helpful among the many exercises that we engaged in while taking this course where Journal posts in which us prospective study abroad students outlined our goals for our time abroad, the reason being that I am without a doubt the kind of learner that works best by organizing one's thought's on paper. You can actually read my original post and my thought's concerning that original post nearly 2 years later in my Study Abroad section of this website!