(Unila): Internationalization of the campus has been set by the University of Lampung (Unila). Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) made that happen by conducting a Short Course International program entitled “Introduction to Unila, Lampung, Indonesia, Culture, Business and Industry”.
The event was officially ianugurated by the Vice Rector for Administration and Financial Affairs, Prof. Muhammad Kamal, accompanied by Dean of FEB, Prof. Satria Bangsawan, in Building D FEB Unila, Monday (04/03/2019).
Kamal said that one of Unila’s targets has been prioritizing the internationalization of campus programs in the past few years. The advantage of this program is that Unila provides a chance to the development of the quality and encourage graduates’ competitiveness by stimulating various types of similar activities.
“This program provides a chance to bring up individual skills between Unila students and Aoyama Gakuin students. I hope that by this program, participants may bring valuable experience,” he said.
Meanwhile, Dean of FEB, Prof. Satria Bangsawan, explained that Aoyama Gakuin students, would contribute a beneficial input regarding the efforts to increase our campus internationalization besides studying at SMEs in Lampung.
In addition, Satria said, FEB Unila, which focuses on research and learning, also seeks to take part in the development of the economy of Lampung Province by producing competitive human resources.
Participants in this program, however, consisted of 15 Aoyama Gakuin University students and numbers of Unila students. They enrolled in international classes that use English in their daily lives. The activity lasted approximately for a couple of weeks by using the Active Learning.
“Active Learning, however, means direct interaction between both speaker/ lecturer and the students. Besides being interactive, the active learning pattern enables direct practice so that it will form a language literacy,” Satria added.
On the other side, Prof. Hitomi Lizaka as a student assistant revealed that they are very interested in learning experiences in Lampung.
According to Hitomi, Aoyama Gakuin students will receive a lot of worthwhiles experience through exchanging cultural insight as to enrich and broaden their knowledge regarding both Indonesia and the University of Lampung. [PR Team]
