Strategies for International Student Success

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This course is designed to help international undergraduate students develop the necessary skills to become independent learners and successful MSOE students. The course will present a variety of academic skills and campus resources so that students are better prepared to be successful in their classes. It will also focus on acculturation: what it takes to be successful in an American university and comfortable living in a new culture. Students will also have the chance to share their own culture with the campus community. Through class discussion and weekly activities, they will learn to feel at home in a new academic and social environment.