JSAF派遣生体験談【2008年】

科目名：International Business Law

授業形式： Lecture

評価のつけ方：

There are just 3 huge papers throughout the spring semester, with no tests. So, the prof basically grades us based just on those 3 papers.? The prof was seriously hard-grader.

授業内容：

The object of this course is we make sure that we get the sense of what the international business is, and learn what it takes to be a good leader in the future society.

その他感想など：

Well, not only is English not my first language, but most of the legal article are also written using lots of intricate words I had not even heard of, which made me think about dropping out of it. Yet, as the class went along, I could get to know some in the class and could ask them to help me out with the paper. And the thing is that we are technically allowed to work on those papers in a team, and arrive at the same conclusion as other members, as long as we turn in our own paper. So, this class turned out to be kind of blow-off class.

授業形式： lecture

評価のつけ方：

There are 4 quiz throughout the semester, and one final. Those are composed of multiple choice, which I think made it a lot easier to keep up with the lecture. Each quiz has 50 questions, each of which is equivalent to 2 points. And in the process of the prof giving out the course grade, he is going to count out the lowest score of the first 4 quiz. ??1st 86 ,2nd 74, 3rd 84. ( I goofed off before the 2nd one. Im sorry)

授業内容：

What grabbed my attention most so far was how the Freudian ( the follower of Freud’s) thought about their lives. According to the school, every single 5~8 year ole boy has the desire to have a sexual intercourse with their mom, which I totally doubt.

その他感想など：

It seems that the prof of my class is the most famous prof in the psychology department. He himself likes joking around in the class, which I suppose made all the students feel close to the prof. It was kinda impressive that in the first class, he could identify all the students in the class without looking at the pictures or something.

授業形式： discussion and lecture

評価のつけ方：

We have a fairly long paper both for midterm and for final. Other than those two papers, we had to turn in 2 page-long reflection paper on the article assigned for the each class. And we all are required to have a oral-presentation about anything we want to talk about American culture. I got Bplus for mine.

授業内容:

The interesting thing about this course is that in spite of the size of the classroom huge enough to hold more than 100 people, there are just 10 students, including me. However, such a small environment makes us feel compelled to speak out in the class. At the same time, it turned out that this could would be the one where I felt most comfortable, compared to 2 other classes.? What we did in this course was basically looking over the history of the United States by using lots of articles ranging from music, native Americans, to Disney, Nike.

その他感想など：

I guess what I said in the last space would be same here.

題材：How to start business in Ireland

内容：we represented one imaginary company, and chewed on what the best way to enter into business in Ireland was, choosing any one of the 3 strategies; Foreign investment, licensing of intellectual property, or foreign trade.

感想：

What frustrated me most in this project was the staggering amount of reading. Like 500 pages or something. Reading typical 500 pages-long books doesnt sound that bad. But, it took me a lot of time to handle all those articles.??

題材： Making the contract

内容： we represents one imaginary company and make one contract which is generally considered to be beneficial to both parties, that is, buyer and seller.

感想：

This is what we are working on right now as the final project in this class. I dont think it takes as much time as the last 2 papers to write. But we are assigned into a group of 5 people, all of whom get the same grade based on what kind of contract we can make. So, once I screw up somewhere, that would affect the grade of everyone else’s. I’m sure the feeling after turning in this paper would be awesome, cuz I can be off the hook for it.

When it comes to the size of the each class, the number of the students in japan is like ten-times as much as here, so the students don’t care about doing something else, which has nothing to do with the class itself. And most of the students are paying for the tuition on their own, so they focus on the lecture, which I like.

Well, I don’t think I can tell with number or percentage how much my English got better in the last year.

Weekday

In the morning: class??? in the afternoon: get stuck in the library and study, after that have dinner with friends and do something fun depending on how much hw I had for the next day.

Friday night:

basically no memory

Weekend:

go to the mall or do sports, and we all start getting ourselves back to the school stuff on Sunday night.
（２）友達、クラスメイトとの交友関係、
Well, I was lucky to have two really good roommates, which I don’t even want to change for anything. Plus, UST has a whole bunch of international students from nearly 30 countries, so it was fun hanging out with those internationals as well.
（３）最も良い思い出、大変だった思い出
the best memory was the Christmas time at one of my roommate’s house in Wisconsin.?

The worst hardship; hmmmmm,,,, I guess the life here was so much fun that even single bad memory comes up in my mind now.
（４）一番の息抜き
Watching stupid show in the MTV
（５）ノートパソコンの使用頻度や必要性 ：
Basically there is in no way I could spend the last year without PC. Well, there are lots of computers available throughout the library, but still my own computer made the life here a lot easier and more convenient.
（6）日本の家族、友達との連絡
My mom kept calling me roughly once a week.
（８）大学のサポートセンター利用状況
In the first couple weeks, I used the writing center to ask them to proofread each paper. But I realized that it would be nice to ask to friends to correct them.

Don’t be overwhelmed by lots of Chinese

基本的にオリエンテーションは保険のことやら、いかにいい成績をとるかのセミナーとかで、あまり面白いものではなかった。実際に授業が始まって、学校を走り回るまではあまり学校のことはわからない。

（２）履修について

 人気のコースは早めにうまり、またコースの必要条件が満たされてない場合は教授に直接あって許可をもらったりする必要があるので、はやめにしたほうがいい。

（3）中間試験など試験評価について

成績は％で区切られてて、明確。

政治Bplus

ビジネスA

期末

政治Bplus（８７～９０％）

ビジネスA　（９３～１００％）

シアター　Bplus　（８７～９０％）

 （4）平均勉強時間（平日/休日に分けて）・勉強内容

 休日平日かかわらず６，７時間

授業形式）：レクチャー

授業の雰囲気：比較的にぎやかなクラスでした。ディスカッション多。

クラスサイズ：３０人

ＴＡ：無

クラスの難易度：難。ある程度のアメリカ政治に関しての知識が条件であったりしたので苦労した。

宿題の量と内容：長いペーパーが３枚、テスト３回、宿題は毎回５０ページくらいの読み物。

授業形式：レクチャー

授業の雰囲気：にぎやか

クラスサイズ：２５人

ＴＡ：無

クラスの難易度：やさしい。テキストにそって授業が進むので、取り残されることはなかった。

授業形式：レクチャー

授業の雰囲気：先生が年配の方だったので、とても静かなクラスでした。

クラスのサイズ：１５人

ＴＡ：無

クラスの難易度：
難。Entry classの割には、演劇について分析させられたりと、頭を使う授業

ルームメイトは比較的みんな忙しいため、全員がそろうのは夜１０時くらいだが、一人のルームメイトとは特別に仲がよく、Thanksgiving/ Christmas　には家に滞在させてもらった。

（２）食事

スノーボードクラブ、日本語倶楽部、　GMSA(　留学生からなるクラブ)

（２）スポーツ

定期的に運動をしているわけではないが、宿題などが早くおわり、時間があるときは友達とプールにいったり、バスケをしたりしている。

（３）休み中の過ごし方

スポーツ観戦、モールへ買い物、　

（４）滞在中に印象に残った地域・場所

 ルームメイトの家はWisconsinの山奥にあり、あんなに星をみたのは１０何年ぶりでした。

この４か月はあっというまに過ぎてしまい、たまにもっとやれたんじゃないと思うときがあります。ここにいる間はできるだけ英語に触れていようとおもい、JSMFさんへのメールも英語で書かせてもらってます。　こっちにきてアメリカのいい面も悪い面もたくさんみてきましたが、やっぱり将来はここで働きたいという思いは変わりません。