Charlie's Angels
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Group name:
Charlie's Angels
Group members:
Aleša Zalar
Ana Šuštaršič
Špela Dermastja
Dejan Ilovar
Distribution of roles:
Chairperson: Špela Dermastja
Secretary: Aleša Zalar
Reporter: Ana Šuštaršič
Time-keeper: Dejan Ilovar
Exchange student pro blems of adapting to a new environment
Definition:
Every year a lot of students decide to go and study abroad, most of them go to another country for 6 months and they are known as exchange students. To go on an exchange helps students with their academic career and gives them an international perspective. We will discuss about those who come and study in Slovenia. Students which decide to go abroad are facing many problems and meeting many obstacles, from the first day they arrive to Slovenia. First of all they have to find a place to stay and second of all they have to find stores to buy some food and busses which drive to their faculties. It is not easy to be alone in a country you do not know, especially if you do not have any social contacts or if you do not know anyone who could help you.
Research questions:
Glossary:
- International mobility – mednarodna mobilnost
- Education policy – izobraževalna politika
- Erasmus programme – program Erasmus
- Culture shock – kulturni šok
- Acculturation – akulturacija (The adjustment of an individual to a foreign culture. Applies to the process of acquiring a second culture that is added to and mixed with the individual’s first culture.)
- Intercultural communication – medkulturno sporazumevanje
Literature:
FOV, 2008 - 2012, Erasmus exchange students, accessed on 15.03.2012, accessable at: http://www.fov.uni-mb.si/About-the-Faculty/International-Cooperation/Erasmus-Exchange-Students
Minutes of the first meeting, held on February 21st 2012, at 2.00PM at FDV Library
Items of the agenda:
1. Choosing the name of the group
2. Assigning roles
3. Time and place of next meeting
Item 1
Discussion: There were no problems regarding the name of the group. Dejan suggested the name Charlie's Angels, because there are three girls and one boy in the group, which reminded the group of the movie and TV series where there are also three crime fighting girls and Bosley who is their boss. The rest of the group agreed and so our group was all set.
Decision: We decided for the name Charlie's Angels.
Item 2
Discussion: We assigned roles to the members of the group. No one in the group had any preferences, so we organized a random selection.
Decision: Špela Dermastja is the leader of the group, Dejan Ilovar is the time-keeper, Aleša Zalar is the secretary, Ana Šuštaršič is the reporter.
Item 3
Discussion: We discussed the time and place of our second meeting.
Decision: Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, after class in the library. We have also set up a Facebook Group where we can also discuss the project further; we can also have midnight brainstorming sessions on Facebook.
Present: Aleša Zalar, Ana Šuštaršič, Špela Dermastja, Dejan Ilovar
Minutes taker: Dejan Ilovar
Minutes of the second meeting, held on February 29nd 2012, at 2.00PM at FDV Library
Items of the agenda:
1. Choosing the topic and title of our project
2. Defining the central problem
3. Defining the research questions
4. Searching literature
5. Time and place of next meeting
Item 1 Choosing the topic and title of our project
We selected the topic and title of our project. Each of us provided some interesting ideas, and in the end we decided to choose
''Exchange student problems of adapting to a new environment''.
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Item 2 Defining the central problem
We decided to take on the problem of the adaptation to a new environment of exchange students.
Item 3 Defining the research questions.
Each member of the group came up with a couple od research question. We selected the most appropriate and posted them below.
Item 4 Searching for literature
We searched in the FDV library, and a quick search turned our attention to the following pieces of literature:
FOV, 2008 - 2012, Erasmus exchange students, accessed on 15.03.2012, accessable at: http://www.fov.uni-mb.si/About-the-Faculty/International-Cooperation/Erasmus-Exchange-Students
Univerza v Ljubljani, Erazmus izmenjavni študenti, accessed on 15.03.2012, accessable at: http://www.uni-lj.si/mednarodne_izmenjave/program_socrates_erasmus/erasmus_izmenjavni_studenti.aspx
Item 5 Time and place of next meeting
We discussed the time and place for our next meeting. We agreed that our next meeting will be held in a computer room at FDV library on Tuesday, 6th of March 2012, at 2.00PM
Present:Aleša Zalar, Ana Šuštaršič, Špela Dermastja, Dejan Ilovar
Minutes taker:Dejan Ilovar
Minutes of the third meeting, held on March 6th 2012, at 2.00PM at FDV Library
Items of the agenda:
1. Distribution of research questions among group members,
2. Revising collected literature and distributing relevant sources to group individuals,
3. Setting the date of the next meeting.
Item 1
Because we decided on another title, we were forced to select different research questions. The group members expressed their wishes on answering the research questions. Each member picked two questions of their own choice.
Item 2
We searched for literature for our questions. By working as a group we quickly found enough material to process and get our desired information. Špela and Ana decided to read through the literature and sort out information that was useful and related to the project topic. Aleša and Dejan did some further research.
Item 3
At the end of our meeting, we discussed the time and place for our next meeting. We agreed that our next meeting will be held in a computer room at FDV library on Tuesday, 13th of March 2012, at 2.00PM
Present:Aleša Zalar, Ana Šuštaršič, Špela Dermastja, Dejan Ilovar
Minutes taker:Dejan Ilovar
Minutes of the fourth meeting, held on March 6th 2012, at 2.00PM at FDV Library
Items of the agenda:
1. Revising collected literature and distributing relevant sources to members,
2. Making a glossary
3. Setting the date of the next meeting
Item 1
We searched for more literature for our project. Špela and Aleša found some interesting articles on the internet while Dejan and Ana looked for books that had useful information. After that, we had a discussion regarding Erasmus students and their life in Slovenia. We all know some foreign exchange students that we could interview. We sent some of them a message if they would be kind enough to help us with our project.
Item 2
We looked through our literature and found some words that needed an explanation.
- International mobility – mednarodna mobilnost
- Education policy – izobraževalna politika
- Erasmus programme – program Erasmus
- Culture shock – kulturni šok
- Acculturation – akulturacija (The adjustment of an individual to a foreign culture. Applies to the process of acquiring a second culture that is added to and mixed with the individual’s first culture.)
- Intercultural communication – medkulturno sporazumevanje
Item 3
At the end of our meeting, we discussed the time and place for our next meeting. We agreed that our next meeting will be held in a computer room at FDV library on Tuesday, 20th of March 2012, at 2.00PM
*pic1: Kristy Sturdivant, FLIX66, movie review: Charlie's angels (Blu-ray), 12.03.2012, acessable at: http://www.flix66.com/2010/08/29/charlies-angels-blu-ray/
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