5711308: FU_MILSA for outgoing students (study abroad WS 2024/25)

Description

The MILSA mentoring program provides students with the opportunity to develop their intercultural awareness and intercultural learning as students and future professionals. The program is offered twice yearly with a duration of approx. twelve months. It starts in April respectively in October.
The mentoring program provides an immersive intercultural learning experience in an international location. Students' learning is supported by pre-departure and post-sojourn workshops, and by Skype interviews and guided blog writing during the study abroad. The mentor is lecturer of the University of Liechtenstein.
The pre-departure workshop introduces students to explore aspects of intercultural learning and helps them prepare for their experience in a different society and culture.
During the stay abroad, students will talk to the mentor via Skype and write guided blog contributions about their intercultural learning. They stay in contact and complete group task together. Upon their return, students meet with the mentor in a post-sojourn workshop to discuss and reflect upon their experiences and the importance of their intercultural learning for their future professional lives.
The subject includes content on notions of culture, interculturality, intercultural learning,
stereotypes, identities, cultural practices, and reflection and reflective writing.
The First Steps in Intercultural Learning Workshop is held before students depart. This workshop provides essential content, discussion and activities to prepare students for their intercultural learning, international experience and to guide their completion of assessment tasks.
The Coming Home Workshop takes place after students return from their stay abroad and allows them to reflect on their experience, particularly their intercultural learning and its
application to their future professional lives. Students also present their group assignment.

Lecture Goals

• To acquire and improve intercultural learning skills
• To reflect on expectations for study abroad
• To reflect on and discuss experiences while studying abroad; to reflect on the
• behaviours and values in the host and home cultures
• To practice observation and reflection in writing and in conversation
• To reflect on one's use of the language of the host country and other languages used during study abroad
• To encourage students to think about the study abroad experience in terms of their professional life

Lectures Method

Workshops, discussions, writing blog contributions, Skype interview, online survey

Admission Requirements

None.

Literature

"Culture and the primary socialization process" by Janet Jackson"

Supplied during the course
Maximizing Study Abroad, A Students' Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
By R. Michael Paige, Andrew D. Cohen, Barbara Kappler Mikk, Julie C. Chi, & James P. Lassegard, Minnesota University Press

Comments

cross-faculty course:
Rules for registration: www.uni.li/cross-faculty