5611311: FU_MILSA only for incoming students

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Semester:WS 23/24
Type:Seminar
Language:English
ECTS-Credits:3.0
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:15.0 L / 11.5 h
Self-directed study time:78.5 h

Module coordination/Lecturers

Curricula

Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration (01.09.2012)
Cross faculty elective subjects (01.09.2014)
Master's degree programme in Finance (01.09.2015)
Master's degree programme in Information Systems (01.09.2019)
Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2019)
Master's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2019)
Master's degree programme in Entrepreneurship and Management (01.09.2020)
Master's degree programme in Finance (01.09.2020)
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration (01.09.2021)

Description

The MILSA mentoring program provides guest 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 one semester. It starts during the Introduction Week.
The mentoring program provides an immersive intercultural learning experience in an international location. Students' learning is supported by arrival and departure workshops, and by interviews and guided blog writing during their stay at the University of Liechtenstein. The mentor is a lecturer of the University of Liechtenstein.
The arrival workshop introduces students to explore aspects of intercultural learning and helps them prepare for their experience in a different society and culture.
During the semester, students will talk to the mentor during a personal interview and write guided blog contributions about their intercultural learning. They stay in contact and complete group task together. Shortly before their return home, students meet with the mentor in a departure 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 during the Introduction Week. 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 Departure Workshop takes place at the end of the semester and allows the students 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

Learning Outcomes

  • 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

Qualifications

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

Exam Modalities

Grading

Assessment tasks:

  • Attending the First Steps in Intercultural Learning and Coming Home workshops
  • Writing three blog contributions
  • Completing one peer group task
  • Filling in online survey

Compulsory attendance 100%

Assessment

Grading

Assessment tasks:

  • Attending the First Steps in Intercultural Learning and Coming Home workshops
  • Writing three blog contributions
  • Completing one peer group task
  • Filling in online survey

Compulsory attendance 100%

Comments

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

Dates

DatumZeitRaum
05.09.202313:30 - 17:30S1
09.11.202309:00 - 12:00S10 (Fabrikweg)
09.11.202315:30 - 18:30S10 (Fabrikweg)
08.01.202413:00 - 17:00S1