Independent Preparation
What Do You Know About Your Host Country and Culture?
The questions below are intended to enable you to take control and responsibility of your study abroad experience. These questions should get you thinking about your host country and culture. Spending time finding the answers to these questions will prepare you for the challenges you will face abroad and help you get the most out of your experience.
Answers to these questions can be found from a range of resources—written materials, Web sites, former participants, questionnaires in the IP office and current international students at Puget Sound.
This list is not the end all be all of country and culture knowledge… what else do YOU want to know?