JAPN420: 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.
Meets MLO 5: Cultural Internalization and Language Immersion
Meets MLO 5: Cultural Internalization and Language Immersion
Reflective Narrative:
This course, designed to prepare students to study abroad, taught me many tools that I used when I was in Japan to document my experience while I was there. Our first assignment was to make a blog to record monthly journal entries of our time abroad.
Here is the link to my blog: Japan Fall 2015-Spring 2016
We also learned about a project called LESCANT that we were to complete. LESCANT stands for:
L-Language
E-Environment
S-Social Organization
C-Context
A-Authority
N-Non Verbal
T-Time
And, we were to submit one photo with each of these themes and write a description on why our photo fit that theme, every month.
Here is the link to my LESCANT project: Japan LESCANT. You should change the view settings from "Relevant" to "Date Uploaded" to get a more organized view of my month-by-month LESCANT.
Having learned, in this class, how to complete those assignments while abroad was essential to documenting my time in Japan. One of the most beneficial things we did in this course was have a panel of past study abroad students where we could ask them ANY questions we had about going abroad. No matter how big or small the question, it was the best learning experience I had in that class. And it certainly helped ease my worries about my first time traveling. One area I wish to develop further from this class is to continue blogging about my time in Japan when I go there to work in the future. This course relates to an activity I did in Japan where I showed how I documented my travels to my E-Kaiwa, or English Conversation, class I taught at the English Cafe. I want to further explore this learning experience by documenting my next time in Japan the same way.
This course, designed to prepare students to study abroad, taught me many tools that I used when I was in Japan to document my experience while I was there. Our first assignment was to make a blog to record monthly journal entries of our time abroad.
Here is the link to my blog: Japan Fall 2015-Spring 2016
We also learned about a project called LESCANT that we were to complete. LESCANT stands for:
L-Language
E-Environment
S-Social Organization
C-Context
A-Authority
N-Non Verbal
T-Time
And, we were to submit one photo with each of these themes and write a description on why our photo fit that theme, every month.
Here is the link to my LESCANT project: Japan LESCANT. You should change the view settings from "Relevant" to "Date Uploaded" to get a more organized view of my month-by-month LESCANT.
Having learned, in this class, how to complete those assignments while abroad was essential to documenting my time in Japan. One of the most beneficial things we did in this course was have a panel of past study abroad students where we could ask them ANY questions we had about going abroad. No matter how big or small the question, it was the best learning experience I had in that class. And it certainly helped ease my worries about my first time traveling. One area I wish to develop further from this class is to continue blogging about my time in Japan when I go there to work in the future. This course relates to an activity I did in Japan where I showed how I documented my travels to my E-Kaiwa, or English Conversation, class I taught at the English Cafe. I want to further explore this learning experience by documenting my next time in Japan the same way.