An Excellent Experience in an Amazing City Past Review
By Emma S (Anthropology., Wellesley College) for
University of Vienna: Vienna - Direct Enrollment & Exchange
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Personal Information
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | 2 weeks - 1 month |
Review Your Program
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
The education system at UniWien is simply the opposite of that at Wellesley. It is all self-taught, meaning (in the case of lectures), there are very few meeting times and the only grade for the class is the final exam. Thus there is no such thing as a "workload". The core course required by the German department at Wellesley is more along the lines of a true Wellesley class with weekly readings and response papers. |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
The on-site program director was fantastic and she did an excellent job of organizing all of our events, our travels, and took very good care of us while we were in Vienna. |
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* Housing:
How satisfied were you with your living arrangements? |
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| * Food: |
Grocery stores are plentiful but small and they have very short hours. |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
Donauinselfest, Wiener Festwochen, Wiener Eistraum, Berlin excursion. |
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* Health Care:
How well were health issues addressed during the program? |
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| * Safety: |
Vienna is the safest, cleanest city I have ever visited. |
| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
Yes
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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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| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | Take advantage of all the free things in Vienna and all the events. |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | Yes |
| How would you rate your language skills at the beginning of the program? | Intermediate |
| What was the highest level language course you had completed prior to departure? | GER 239 |
| Language acquisition improvement? |
My roommate was Austrian, my floormates all spoke German and then of course it is everywhere you are: people on the subway, television, tubes of toothpaste, menus...one would have to try to not acquire language. |
| If applicable, to what degree did your living situation aid your language acquisition? |
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Other Program Information
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* Where did you live?
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* Who did you live with?
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* Who did you take classes with?
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A Look Back
| * What did you like most about the program? |
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| * What could be improved? |
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