ScheduleWhen the second semester had begun, there was still an orientation (returning students only had to attend to part of it), where we learned about the semester's available classes. My choice in Japanese classes was pretty self-explanatory as I would naturally take the following level of language classes. Concerning my electives this time around, I decided to take a couple that could count toward my degree at SDSU and help me get closer to graduation, rather than taking classes that would only count toward my total units and nothing else. My schedule for this semester consisted of 15 units and is posted below:
Tuesday: Integrated Japanese, Principles of Economics, Music of Japan and the World Wednesday : Japanese Topic Class, Prospects of Science Thursday: Integrated Japanese, Linguistics 2 Friday: 3rd Year Kanji Orientation and Schedule On the first day of school, an orientation was held to go over what was expected of us as students and what kind of courses were available to us. We then took placement exams so that they could determine what our expected level of Japanese was and what were the appropriate classes to take. I felt that my evaluation was accurate as I had tried to attend a class that was one level higher and could not understand what was going on, so I took the recommended level of Japanese for me. My overall class schedule ended up being 17 units and looked something like this:
Monday: Iaido Tuesday: Intensive Japanese Wednesday: Japanese Culture and Education Thursday: Intensive Japanese, Linguistics 1, Japanese Subcultures, Homelessness Friday: Intensive Japanese Online: Japan in the World I would first like to begin this post by stating that none of this would have been possible without the Gilman Scholarship. Although I still received a few other scholarships, in total they all added up to fraction of the Gilman and I think that in itself shows the significance that this scholarship had on my study abroad experience.
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AuthorI am Kyle Sablan and I studied abroad at Yokohama National University (YNU) during the 2016-2017 academic year. This blog was created as one of the requirements for receiving the Gilman Scholarship. The purpose of this blog is to share my personal experience with everybody and encourage interest in studying abroad. Archives
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