The Two-Week Orientation Center Program

Forrest G. Moore and Clarke A. Chambers
Additional contact information
Forrest G. Moore: University of Minnesota
Clarke A. Chambers: University of Minnesota

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1961, vol. 335, issue 1, 28-32

Abstract: Orientation programs for foreign students vary in duration and coverage from one-day programs on the cam pus of the university attended, with emphasis on local institu tional practices, to six-week programs for students destined for many different universities and with major emphasis on learn ing English. In the summer of 1960 for the first time, two universities—Minnesota and Indiana—were asked to experi ment with two-week orientation sessions for groups of advanced graduate students carefully selected for English language pro ficiency and academic competence. Major emphasis was placed on orientation to the American university system and to practices in the specific fields of study of the participants. The results would seem to indicate that this type of short- term orientation, while fast moving and, thus, wearing on the participants and the instructors alike, produced among the overseas students some notable insights into graduate educa tion in America.

Date: 1961
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271626133500104 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:335:y:1961:i:1:p:28-32

DOI: 10.1177/000271626133500104

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().