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Aside from having to visit the study abroad office for classwork. I plan to go study abroad during my time in college. The year I plan to go study abroad is my junior year. I plan to be in South Korea for a whole year, that’s in 2019/20. I started researching about studying abroad and I found out that in order to have an appointment with a study abroad advisor, a student must attend a study abroad info session before arranging an appointment with a study abroad advisor. In a way, this is an extension of the study abroad office. The study abroad information sessions are offered every week except holidays, dead week, and finals week. The info sessions are available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Each day is available at different times. On Tuesdays, the info session is from four–five pm. On Wednesdays, the info session is from five–six pm. On Thursdays, the info session is from eleven am – twelve pm. And on Fridays, the info session is from two–three pm. All info sessions are located in room 410 in the Student Service Center.
The purpose of the info session is exactly how it sounds. It is to inform students about studying abroad in a more detailed way than a booth at a fair or other place. The info session informs students about what study abroad programs and sites are available through CSU, Chico, how to get classes and units to count toward their major, minor, and/or G.E., the ways to finance their semester or year abroad, the possible and best majors, minors or upper division classes for Study Abroad, how the application process is for each program. After attending the info session, everything that I’ve listed is mentioned and answered at the study abroad info session.
I went to the info session with my friend Peter. We went to the info session on Friday, November third. I expected there to be a handful of students but then I forgot that it was Friday and students don’t want to stay on campus much the day before the weekend. I also forgot that it was November too, which means that most students probably attended an info session earlier in the year. There were only about six or seven students present at the one I went to (not including myself and my friend). We sat down, and the info session coordinator explained to us the timeline of what was going to happen in the following hour.
The info session starts off with greetings and an attendance sheet that is passed around (you don’t have to arrange an appointment to come to an info session, you just have to show up when it is available). After signing in, we watched a twenty-minute video about studying abroad. The video consisted of students being interviewed about their trip abroad, study abroad advisors speaking about the different programs, and the pros and cons of studying abroad. Once the video is done playing, the coordinator begins a presentation about studying abroad in a more in-depth model and goes over information that may not have been mentioned in the video. The presentation lasted for about thirty minutes, and in the last five minutes, the coordinator has the students go up to the front and grab pamphlets, brochures, etc on studying abroad. The coordinator advises that we should set up an appointment with one of the study abroad advisors in the following weeks. With that, the info session ended.
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