Recognize the symptoms of reverse culture shock, and use the technique of storytelling to help manage a successful re entry.
Often students expect to be able to pick up exactly where they left off.
A problem arises when reality doesn't meet these expectations. Home may
fall short of what you had envisioned, and things may have changed at
home. This is part of why returning home may feel so foreign. The Heroes
Journey narrative will help students understand how to capitalise their
study abroad experience, translate their newly acquired skills and
knowledge onto their resume and help with academic and social
re-integration.
Your memories of your mobility are valuable not only for you but also to motivate others to make their decision to go on an exchange mobility.
Once you have been abroad you become ambassador of the International Mobility and "a great power comes with a great responsibility": to share you experience.
From here on, we are going to show you some ways to do it.
This course will help you explore the process of cultural adjustment and develop your intercultural intelligence - meaning your ability to detect cultural rules and create new rules to function in intercultural situations, and by doing this, you will feel more confident about being able to deal with cultural differences, you will increase your knowledge of cultural dimensions, you will reduce stereotyping, and you will acquire knowledge that will help you to choose or prepare for a specific study abroad destination.
Hi there and welcome to this capsule!
It is likely that you have just gone through the cultural awareness capsule, where you learnt more about the differences between your home-country and your study abroad destination, tips on how to engage with a new culture and how to plan your cultural journey at its best.
Now that you have selected your study abroad destination, you can fully focus your preparation on your specific destination. It might be fun to revisit some of the exercises in cultural awareness and do some of the more advanced exercises to expand your cultural knowledge of your study abroad destination.
This course focuses on culture shock. Now, you might wonder if you will ever experience culture shock. You might have already travelled abroad during a holiday, or met people from another cultural background, and did not experience shock.
Going abroad is a deliberate choice and you feel excited about your upcoming adventure.
So, why is this course useful you might think?