IE Events and News
Making Study Abroad Work for You: Resume Writing Tips
Thurs. Feb. 9, 2012
4:00pm
Glendening Annex
International Education External Review Student Open Forum
Thurs. Feb. 16, 2012
7:00pm
Aldom Lounge (Connected to the Campus Center)
Study Abroad Through their Eyes: Perspectives from Former Study Abroad Students
Thurs. Feb. 23, 2012
7:00pm
Aldom Lounge (Connected to the Campus Center)
Summer 2012, Fall 2012, and Academic Year 2012-13 Application Deadline
Thursday, March 1, 2012
5:00pm
230 Glendening
MIEA Scholarship for Study Abroad Application Deadline
April 2, 2012
International Education
Glendening Hall, Suite 230
240 895-4202
ie@smcm.edu
Semester in SHANGHAI
Students study intensive Chinese at Fudan University, a leading university in China in the economic center of Shanghai.
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Student Life
Living and Eating on Campus
ICADS arranges homestays for its program participants. Families are selected through an application process and are monitored on an on-going basis. Families provide housing to one student at a time. In the city, students primarily reside with lower middle to middle class families. While traveling or during internship residences, students may be housed with humble, rural families. Students receive two daily meals (breakfast and dinner), provided by their host families.
ICADS picks homestay families from a carefully selected group of about 66 families, most of whom have worked for ICADS for over ten years. All families live in approved neighborhoods, close to ICADS facilities, and nearby other homestay families, facilitating the integration of students with their classmates and safer walks to and from classes. Each family has been closely inspected and interviewed, and homes must also meet basic standard of safety and cleanliness. The families are diverse in constitution; in addition to "traditional" nuclear families, many others consist of single or divorced women looking after their children and/or other family members, or even one-member families (single or widowed women with a generally more spacious living arrangement).
Each student will evaluate his/her homestay family at the end of the program, providing input on various aspects of their experience—food, laundry, safety, integration and communication, culture, and any other information the student would like to share. Evaluations receive a personal follow-up and from the ICADS Homestay Placement Coordinator, who remains in close contact with all the approved homestay families.
Staying Fit
ICADS does not have its own fitness facilities, but there are gyms in San Jose that students can join and students find there's always dancing to stay fit, either through lessons at dance studios or in leisure time. Some students also find time to go running, but you'll want to talk with your family about safety considerations for running alone in the neighborhood.
Student Activities
Students will participate in planned excursions as part of their semester program at ICADS.
Computing at ICADS
For computer and internet use, there are inexpensive internet cafes located in practically every neighborhood; most cafes also have pay phones to use to call home. There is also a small computer lab with internet access at the ICADS facility that is open for student use.
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