As a student of Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI), will I have opportunities to travel?

Plenty! The courses that are offered at WKWSCI may go beyond the classroom in pursuit of knowledge, but some even go beyond borders, which is something invaluable in widening our undergraduates’ perspectives.

Here are just some of the exciting overseas opportunities that the School has to offer to their students:

SOJOURN

Fully funded by the Wee Kim Wee Legacy Fund, the Short Overseas Journalism (SOJOURN) practicum exposes students to the challenge of reporting in an overseas setting.

During pre-departure meetings, students learn about the destination, plan their stories and assist in making arrangements for their trip. The field trip of 4 to 7 days involves intensive reporting, briefings and site visits.

Students on the SOJOURN programme travel, see, taste, and experience for the reader rather than for themselves, while empathizing with and understanding the people and the culture of the country they visit – countries as diverse as Vietnam and North Korea.

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT (ISCM)

In this course, students craft a comprehensive destination marketing plan for clients from tourism boards of countries like Sri Lanka and Spain.

At the start of the programme, students are broken into groups and put into real-world agency situations, creating competing pitches. They are flown to and immersed in the destinations they are about to market, briefed by the client in their offices. They then conduct market research, strategic thinking, media planning, creative execution and consumer testing, right up to the final closed-door client presentation.

GLOBAL IMMERSION PROGRAMME (GIP)

Aimed at promoting active experiential learning through overseas attachments to work and study in rising economies abroad, the Global Immersion Programme enables students to gain the cultural intelligence to lead people of different backgrounds and provides them with a broader perspective of their field of study.

Students going to China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam have the chance to be professionally attached to leading multinational companies and start-ups in well-known tech parks.

p/s I've to be honest. This blog post was copied and pasted from the copy I was given. Didn't have any input in it. So sorry! Am very very tired. I wonder why. 

But anyways, yes a lot of travel opportunities.

Look at where I am now! New Zealand for exchange! In general, almost the whole school in WKWSCI goes on exchange. So somehow you'll feel like you need to go on exchange too. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing coz it's good pressure in a way? Coz I'm really opening my eyes to a lot of things here. I've learnt plenty of things I wouldn't be able to, back in Singapore. So yes! Exchange is something you'll probably go for when you're a student in WKW. 

I really gotta sleep now. Updates soon I promise!