JAPN 420: Maximizing Study Abroad
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.
Reflective Narrative:
This class helped me prepare for my study abroad in Japan from 2015-2016. In this class we learn language learned strategies to help help better learn while abroad as well as learned about how to cope with our emotions just in case we have not traveled abroad. I thought these classes were helpful and helped be able to learn as much as I can while abroad. In this class, After choosing our top three universities we would like to study at, we had to meet with a panel of ourJapanese teachers and the international department faculty. They ask question like "Why do you want to study abroad?" or ""Have you ever travel to Japan before?" to make sure we would be ok studying and living in a different country. Then ultimately our teachers choose the university at which they feel we would fit in and benefit the most from studying there based on our language goals.