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Show PAGE 48 *A*PLUS; ORIENTATION * FALL 2010 Welcome other cultures through the Office of International Students If you're ready to experience another culture without the involved airfare, a world of opportunity stands at your doorstep. More than 1,000 students, scholars, and often, their families, from an average of 82 countries make their journey to the USU campus each year. These students bring to USU the largest pocket of diversity on campus, vast cultural richness (and the willingness to share it), from regions all around the globe. The Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) has always been international students' first point of contact with USU campus life, assisting them with international admissions, immigration issues, housing, cultural and social adjustment, as well as assisting in a variety of personal advising and procedural matters. The OISS is the clearinghouse of information and connections targeted at helping international students adjust to life here. The OISS offers the Peer Mentoring Program and English Conversation Partners program, further extending cross-cultural contact opportunities between American and international students. Other associated OISS organizations include the Community and University Friends of International Students and Scholars (CUFISS), which provides activities for international students and even opportunities for visiting an American home during American holidays. The International Friendship Committee, a group of volunteer women from the community, provides a weekly program for the wives of international students and scholars. In short, the OISS is the resource for connecting international students to all other resources available to them. A variety of other programs and activities are also available through the OISS and the International Student Council (ISC) and other affiliated organizations. In addition to the ISC, students have organized associations representing their own, promoting their own events, which may include national observances or help provide programs/outreach to the community. The ISC, whose umbrella these organizations fall under, sponsors numerous activities/programs such as International Education Week, field trips, the International Banquet, Mr. and Ms. International Pageant, among others. The ISC and other international student organizations under them have offered and presented programs in the Logan area through schools, clubs, churches and community organizations. American students, faculty, and members of the community are invited and encouraged to participate in all the programs and activities offered through our international students. To acclimate international students, the OISS provides orientation sessions each semester to assist them with immigration, registration, advising, housing, health insurance, USU policies, and all of the processes and resources necessary to have a successful academic and cultural experience at USU. Various community and university groups (ASUSU) and the ISC are also generally involved with a welcome party for inclusion of our international students as they enter campus life. All the OISS affiliated organizations and programs are offered to help international students feel welcomed and become involved at USU and in the community, as well as to provide an opportunity for USU faculty, staff and other students to get to know and be involved with our international students. These associations, programs, and events aid in the development of connection, understanding, and friendship with international students, a beautiful stride towards promoting cross-cultural understanding. Faculty,.staff and students reaching out to international students will help them succeed, feel at home, and return to their countries with a positive image of USU and the United States. Crack some heads All whose lives connect or intersect with our international students are enriched for it. The OISS helps international students take their first steps here and their last steps as they complete their academic lives here, moving on to do some wonderful and amazing things, enriching their new locales wherever they go. If you are interested in enriching your life and the lives of our international students by The defensive line of USU lines up against the 'O' of BYU in a 2009 game. This year, USU takes on BYU on Oct. I in USU's Romney Stadium. Statesman photo hosting them in your home during the Holidays, or volunteering to help them while they are at USU and in Logan, please call 797-1124 or visit our web site at: http://www.usu.edu/oiss You can also send an e-mail to oiss@aggiemail.usu. edu. Also, the International Student Council (ISC) can be reached by calling 797-2764 or at iss@aggiemail.usu.edu. Time to learn more about self and others Check out classes in sociology, social work, anthropology Are you interested in Yet we are all aware that "convencrime? Drug use? African t Sociology tional wisdom" is often misleading. cultures? Communities? Rural Sociology probes beneath the Social peoples? Problems of the envisurface of culture to discover the Work, ronment? Law and society? Anthro. basis of society and the reasons Demographics and markets? for both "normal" and "deviant" The Department of Sociology, behaviors in and among human Social Work and Anthropology groups. For further information has all this and much, much more. This is a about Sociology and about employment department with three different majors that opportunities in the field, contact Dr. Eddy can introduce you to a range of topics from Berry, 797-1230, Main 224J. international development to archaeology, to Anthropology is the integrated study of social welfare and minority groups. humans in all their aspects. Straddling the humanities and the sciences, the biologiSociology is an invaluable major for stucal and the cultural, anthropology offers a dents planning careers in criminology, busibroad framework for understandingpeople ness (especially demographics), public administration, gerontology, or community planning. as well as providing a context for many other disciplines. Courses cover subjects in human It provides a useful background for those origins and evolution, human communicaplanning to enter law, business, medicine, tion, origins of civilization, the peopling of the social work, architecture and even politics. New World,the biological and cultural aspects Sociology is the study of human groups and of race, international development, religion, organizations. This discipline includes analysis the archaeology of Utah and other world and understanding of gender roles, social regions, sex and gender, past climate and movements, social change, family patterns, environments, and cross-cultural approaches criminal justice, and relationships of humans to health and disease. Anthropology offers a to the physical environment. Society and major and a minor, and makes an excellent culture are so much a part of our lives that many people take them as "given," and never question, much less try to understand, society. I^More. Page 49 MEET THE CHALLENGE |
