A one day session will be held with a focus on two key goals: cultural adaptation and work-site expectations and goals. Topics
to be covered include:

Cultural Preparation Topics:

• What is Culture?

  • Intercultural Hypotheses

  • The Iceberg Conception of the Nature of Culture

   

• Mainstream U.S. Culture

  • The Stereotyped American

  • To See Ourselves

   

• Cross-Cultural Adjustment Process

  • Filters - The Glasses We Wear

  • Rhinesmith's Ten Stages of Adjustment

  • Process of Cultural Adjustment

   

• Strategies for Success

  • Skills That Make a Difference

  • Strategies for a Successful Experience Abroad

  • Issues of Safety and Security

  • Here's to Your Health

   

Work-Site Topics to be covered include:

• Expectations: the student's and the supervisor's

• Explanation of how the student will be evaluated

• Benefits to the student, the internship (i.e., host site) supervisor and the faculty sponsor

• Goal setting during the internship: academic, career, personal and skill