By my experience in the study here in St. Norbert College
and Saudi Arabia. I will explain the similarities and differences between the education here and there. First, there are things in similar but very few compared to different things.
Things that may resemble with St. Norbert College is a method of student assessment like, tests and the participation and interaction. Professor has a particular way of assessing students see their similarity to some extent here. There are also similarities in between, such as the visit of Dr. in office hours, you can meet with the professor and ask him questions.
On another hand, there are some differences. First of all, a distinction in the number of years of study for undergraduates. In Saudi Arabia, the number of years of study bachelor stage is five years. The first year is the hardest step in the bachelor study because the choice of your major after the first year depends on your grades and work in the first year for you in the college.
The last thing that I think it is different is changing your major after the second year. For example, here at St. Norbert College, you can change your major, and you can quickly equality your hours and change your major, but in Saudi Arabia is very hard to do this.
Thank you for your insights, Talal! We need to make the best of what we have, right? All the best to you!
ReplyDeleteGood comparison! what does it take to change one's major in Saudi Arabia?
ReplyDeleteGood job, Tala. I surprised that in Saudi Arabia college the major is depend at the grades. I also amazed that changing major is the hard thing for Saudi Arabia students. In my country, it is difference than Saudi Arabia. We usually don't study at first years because of several reasons. But changing major is the common situation and it is easy to change it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Talal for sharing with us the differences between here and Saudi Arabia. As too Saudi Student I agree with you, there is a different. such as the ways of teaching. also our universities in Saudi Arabia is not the common to have students lives inside the campus. the way the students lives in there is much different from here. thank you
ReplyDeleteWell done Talal. I ever knew that in Saudi Arabia the choice of your major depended on your grades and work in the first year of college. That must be really tough because your first year would be more work and less fun. On the bright side, the method of student assessments, tests and the participation and interaction in Saudi Arabia is similar to colleges here in America. Well,thank you for your
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