First Meeting with My Supervisor--Prof Anastassia

I had my first meeting with prof. Anastassia yesterday and we have been discussing about my placement for about one hour. Now I have a relatively clear idea on what I need to do for this course and what I can help with prof.Anastassia.






In general, my placement is to work with prof. Anastassia to assist her with teaching the course Intercultural Communication to 100 bachelor students. What I need to do is to help design and facilitate workshops for each lecture. There would be four lectures in total, but since the last one is in December and I probably would be busy at the end of semester, so prof. Anastassia suggested that I should be responsible for only the first three workshops. Each workshop lasts for about 45-60 mins.

In order to make those workshops successful, I need to be fully prepared before the course started. Prof. Anastassia has sent me a few papers which is related to her course and she suggested me to come up with the aim for workshop activities before starting designing. I decided to start with reading the papers that I received and after I have a basic idea about this course, I would start making plans for the workshop.

I have a general plan for my placement so far. The lectures start from the end of October, so I need to come up with a full plan before that. Firstly, I will finish reading the materials in September and try to find more relevant resources during this period. I will keep my blog with the notes and reflection about my reading. Secondly, I will start creating programs in three workshops and come up with an easier way to group 100 students from different backgrounds. I will keep in touch with prof. Anastassia and seeking advice from her while designing. This will be finished in October as prof. Anastassia and I agreed to meet on the 19th of October and go through everything that I prepared. 

The three topics for each lecture are as follows:
30.10 Terms and concepts in intercultural communication
20.11 Multicultural group work at university
27.11 Thinking about identity and intercultural communication. Our own discourses and feelings of culture. Culture shock.

I feel it is a very challenging task for me, but I’m willing to challenge myself and see to what extent I can manage this task. I also want to polish my knowledge and skills in intercultural communication.

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