From February 15thto March 29th, 2021,Campus Asia Pilot Online Course of Okayama University was successfully held. Twelve students fromSchool of Philosophy and Sociology,College of Foreign Languages,School of Economics,School of Law,College of Public Administration,Business School, Hospital of Stomatology, andCollege of Animal Scienceof Jilin University,along withtwelvestudents from Okayama UniversityinJapanandfour students fromSungkyunkwan Universityin ROK, participated in the online modules ofIntroduction to JapanologyandIntroduction to Comparative Education.
Students completed this English-taught program through both online courses and offline independent learning. Four JLU students learned about the employment status, pop culture, gender and racial differences in Japan in the eight sessions of theIntroduction to Japanologymodule. This module enabled students to learn about Japanese society. It also improved their understanding of the social causes underlying the cultural differences between China and Japan, and enhanced their cross-cultural communication capability. Over the 9 sessions of theIntroduction to Comparative Educationmodule, eight JLU students systematically learned aboutthe mainstream education models and theories around the world, and the development of the modern education system, from micro to macro levels, from developed to developing countries, and from elementary to higher education. Thismodule enabled students to have a deeper understanding of the present and future of education systems around the world. At the end of the program, students made presentations on the topics of interest.
“CAMPUS ASIA”, which is short for “Collective Action of Mobility Program of University Students in Asia”, was jointly organized by the Ministry of Education of China;Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science,and Technology of Japan;Ministry of Education oftheROK;andtheROK Council for University Education. The goal of“CAMPUS ASIA”, from its founding, has been to promoteacademic exchanges among students from the three countries. Jilin University from China, Sungkyunkwan University fromtheROK, and Okayama University from Japan were approved to implement the pilot project of “CAMPUS ASIA”in2012, and the official program began in 2016. Up to now, more than 1,000 students from China, Japan, andtheROK have participated in and benefited from JLU-Sungkyunkwan-Okayama project.
