Thursday, 20 October 2011

Accommodations

Here are a few photos of the York St. John campus and our living accommodations.
The Quad




We both live in The Grange which is a complex of flats (apartments). There are several buildings within the Grange. We live in Robinson House and Grange House. This area is a 10 minute walk from campus and is co-ed. We each have our own bedrooms(with a sink) and share a shower room, toilet room, and kitchen with our flatmates. There are 4-5 students in a flat.
Room in Robinson House

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Vicki, Brian, Laurenn, Raymundo
Here is a photo of our Yorkshire Semester group in the Quad on campus. After our first couple of weeks here we are finally getting well acquainted with our new classes.

We were lucky enough, due to nice weather, to spend our first Marketing class in a tea garden bordering the Roman wall which surrounds the city of York. For both our Marketing class and Management seminar, we meet once a week for 3 hours. The structure is similar to a typical Hope course, we have the same amount of reading and writing assignments due every week along with a quiz before class. Our workload each week is larger than a typical semester because the length of our semester here is shorter.

For the classes with York St. John the structure is much different than a class at Hope. For example, our Travel and Tourism Marketing class, we only have two assignments which account for our grade. They are both due toward the end of the semester. Homework is expected to be done on your own outside of class but not accounted for until assignments are turned in. We meet twice a week, for one lecture and one seminar. Looking at the module selection, most course grades are based on one essay and an exam. Similar to Hope College, they use moodle to showcase syllabi, power point presentations, and assignment rubrics.

Monday, 3 October 2011

Hope College DEMA students and staff,

We have created this blog to share with you our experience here at York St. John University and our travels in the UK. We hope this blog delivers some insight to what a semester in Yorkshire is like, as well as aid in the decision making process for prospective study abroad students. Please feel free to comment and follow us on our journey. We've only been here for a week and have already fallen in love with the ambiance of York!

Cheers,

Laurenn & Brian