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| Broadening horizons: Students listen to a briefing on the Disney internship program at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture |
Intern at Disney, get credits
Chunichi Shimbun
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, has launched an overseas program to give its students the opportunity to study in the U.S. and work at Disney World in Florida.
This year, 11 students are set to carry out seven-month internships at the theme park to learn about Disney's culture of hospitality. As such overseas internships help students gain work experience and improve their English-language skills, other universities have been introducing similar programs.
The Disney internship program is aimed at giving students wishing to work in the tourism or service industries work experience at a global company.
"It is not easy to study while working abroad. But this should be a living experience for the students who are going out into the world after their graduation," said professor Akito Ozaki, director of the university's international exchange programs.
The students will study in at the University of California, Riverside, from September and take courses on practical English or the tourism industry through December. They will move to Disney World in Florida next January and work as interns while living in a dormitory.Like other Disney employees, the students will work as guides for attractions, sales staff at souvenir shops, waiters or waitresses at restaurants, or hotel staff.
The credits students earn at UCR will count toward their Nagoya University degrees. Disney will also pay them for their work at the theme park.
Risa Inada, 20, a junior in the Department of English and Contemporary Society who is going to work as a sales clerk, said: "I want to become a flight attendant in the future, so I wish to learn the hospitality of Disney. I am very excited about how much I can grow through this program."
Aichi Shukutoku University, based in the town of Nagakute, launched an overseas internship program several years ago sending students to Washington, D.C. for a month during their spring holiday. While staying with American families, they take care of children at a day care center or work with the elderly at a nursing home in cooperation with a local nonprofit organization. This experience counts as university credits.
Nagoya Institute of Technology also provides an internship program for its students to work at firms in Asia and Europe.
Haruyoshi Nakaya, a study abroad consultant at J.A. Study Abroad Center in Shinjuku, Tokyo, said the number of students seeking internship opportunities overseas has been on the rise in recent years.
"Today it is not that unusual to have language study experience abroad. So it seems a growing number of students are looking for internship opportunities to differentiate themselves from other students," he said.
This section, appearing Saturdays, features topics and issues from the Chubu region covered by local daily Chunichi Shimbun. The original article was published May 28.
The Japan Times: Saturday, June 4, 2011 (C) All rights reserved
I think it is good opportunity for students to do internship because we get information and experience about job information. oversea Internship is much better. It prevents new employees from quitting job soon after joining company.
ReplyDeleteHowever the University should not give students the credit. internship doesn't relate to the study in the University directly. It seems that the University is lazy for me.
Motoki Ono
I agree with the system that the students who do overseas internship are given university credits because this system is good for them to grow.
ReplyDeleteRecently, it is said that Japanese university students tend not to have what they want to do and be interested in going to foreign countries and overseas itself. That is very important thing.
However, if universities enable students who join in internship program to be awarded to credits, they think that it is a merit to join in internship program and they do actually. Besides that, this system would trigger the movement that Japanese students study more and more and they are apt to go abroad and eager to learn many oversea things.
Masashi Yamada
I think it is a good opportunity for students to join the internships and I would like to do something like this Disney program.
ReplyDeleteBut, If I join an internship of Disney program, I will make the curriculum more instructive. First, in the case of Disney program, We will study at foreign university for about four months and work at Disney world for about seven months.I think it is too long to work at Disney world.
As we are students and haven't decided our jobs yet, we should concentrate on studying at the university and debate about working. So, If I join the Disney program, I think that It is better for me to study at foreign university for four months and work at Disney world for three months. After work at Disney world, I shold go back the foreign university and debate about working for the remaing term of the internship.
Kako Furukawa
I want to participate to this internship if I can. This internship gives an opportunity to go abroad for students, so they can improve their English skills and know about society and job at the same time. Moreover, in my case, I ‘m very interested in Disney world because I‘ll try to write a graduation thesis about Disney. I have not decided a theme in detail (now, I want to write about a transition of racism or representation of female on Disney movies.) I think participating to this internship is the best way to understand Disney’s culture and idea.
ReplyDeleteNarumi Tsunashima
I think it is really a good opportunity for university students. I wish Gakushuin Uni also had had that kind of program. That’s because people who take part in that program can learn not only language but Disney hospitality. Disney hospitality is better than other shops and other companies. So everyone should learn what service is from Disney.
ReplyDeleteEven if it is not Disney, to work in shops abroad is a good opportunity because we can practice language. It helps us improving our language more.
YUNA kodama