Optimizing the International Experience through a Pre-Departure Orientation and a Re-entry Workshop,

Autor/inn/en	Weinmann, Sigrid; Bragg, Jeani Marie Behr
Titel	Optimizing the International Experience through a Pre-Departure Orientation and a Re-entry Workshop,
Quelle	(1993), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cultural Awareness; Culture Conflict; Engineering Education; Field Experience Programs; Global Approach; Higher Education; International Programs; Internship Programs; Orientation; Science Education; Student Experience; Study Abroad; Workshops; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kulturkonflikt; Ingenieurausbildung; Praxisnahes Lernen; Globales Denken; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Berufspraktische Ausbildung; Orientierung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Studienerfahrung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Deutschland
Abstract	One of the components of the international program at Michigan Technological University is an internship in Germany where students work for 3 months in companies or university research institutes. These paid internships offer students (mostly engineering and science majors) a unique opportunity to improve their communication skills and cultural awareness while also gaining international work experience. A pre-departure course, which meets once a week for 10 weeks, was developed to provide a format for discussion of the intellectual, emotional, and social processes involved in immersion in a foreign culture and to provide tools for successful adaptation to the new environment. A re-entry workshop was designed to give students a structured setting to synthesize their global experiences and to determine the extent of their personal and intellectual growth. This paper describes objectives for the pre-departure course and re-entry workshop, content, methods and assignments, schedules, and anecdotal evidence of program effectiveness. A survey form is appended to the paper. (Contains 19 references.) (JDD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC