My daughter is planning to spend a semester abroad in Japan and I’m trying to get a sense of her 2 program options, Temple University Japan and Sophia University. She’s a creative writing major who has never studied Japanese but plans to take one semester before going.
Is anyone familiar with the predominant teaching style at Sophia University? Japanese schools used to have a reputation in the US for being heavy on rote learning and memorization at the expense of critical thinking and analysis. As an American college, I expect that TUJ’s teaching will be similar to that of smaller US liberal arts schools, but I haven’t located anything about the teaching at Sophia.
Of course, there’s more to an experience abroad that academics, so feel free to weigh in with anything else you think would be helpful.