Past Review
By Shan L (PSYCHOLOGY., SUNY - Binghamton) for
Fudan University: Shanghai - Direct Enrollment & Exchange
i learned a bit from this program relating to chinese economics. just alot of times i feel like i don't understand what the professors are saying in class.
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
work is decent, but I just wish all the professors know some english so if there is sometimes we don't understand they can explain it in english. some of the courses were so boring. like history of pottery class. Making pottery is one thing, but talking about it in Chinese is just plain boring and hard to understand. |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
the difficulty was decent, but some classes they made us take were really boring and hard to understand. i wish they could let us take more interesting classes instead |
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* Housing:
How satisfied were you with your living arrangements? |
building 16 room 202C <br /><br /> it was nice but alittle expensive |
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eating out for three meals for a whole month took a huge chunk of money, even if it's relatively cheap when converted to dollars. but it adds up. |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
I only saw binghamton students throughout the whole program . |
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* Health Care:
How well were health issues addressed during the program? |
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| * Safety: |
too much smoking everywhere. and a high chance of being robbed |
| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
No
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Finances
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* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost) |
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| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | 1000 yuan. i need alot of money because I like to go shopping alot. |
| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | not much really. if you don't plan on buying alot of things here then you don't need to bring much. Just don't buy brand things here because america is cheaper when it comes to that. |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | Yes |
| Language acquisition improvement? |
i learned alot of new vocabularies |
Direct Enrollment/Exchange
| * Did you study abroad through an exchange program or did you directly enroll in the foreign university? | Direct Enrollment |
Other Program Information
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A Look Back
| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | shanghai can be pretty pricey. don't expect everywhere you go to be cheap. alot of chinese clothes stores are more expensive than america's . |
Individual Course Reviews
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advance chinese |
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| Instruction Language: | Chinese |
| Comments: | this course was like the binghamton chinese classes. you go over a few words and then memorize it. |
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Business |
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| Instruction Language: | chinese |
| Comments: | the material is a bit hard to read but it's manageable. learned alot about chinese fast food chains |
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painting |
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| Instruction Language: | chinese |
| Comments: | we only took his class for a day so it wasn't as bad as pottery. also it was more interesting than pottery. but due to language barrier, had problems understanding what he's saying |
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Pottery |
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| Instruction Language: | chinese |
| Comments: | This class was so boring that I had trouble paying attention. Main reason is I don't understand what he's saying because he uses alot of words that I've never heard of before. |
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Economics |
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| Instruction Language: | chinese |
| Comments: | it was a bit hard to understand what the professor is saying but it's manageable |
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Fighing and War |
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| Instruction Language: | chinese |
| Comments: | It was kind of boring. but amount of work is decent |
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