Semester Summary and Future Plan As the semester draws to a close, it’s time to summarize progress and plan for the next phase. For the proof of concept, I received valuable feedback from classmates. There was widespread agreement that the film’s sensory narrative perspective is unique, and I will continue to retain my “collage” style …
Monthly Archives: November 2025
Blog#12
1. Summary of the article The article examines how professors’ everyday behaviors signal inclusion or exclusion to international students and how these signals shape students’ academic goal pursuits and sense of belonging. Drawing on in-depth interviews with international students at two large U.S. research universities, the authors use a belongingness framework and resilience-based models of …
Blog#11
1. Strange Encounters reframes “the stranger or other” not as a stable identity but as a relational position produced in concrete encounters. For Ahmed, everyday meetings like yielding a doorway, exchanging greetings, returning a gaze, pronouncing a name, producing documents, etc. They are never neutral, they are pre-scripted by histories, state policies, media narratives, and ordinary etiquettes. Therefore, …
BLog#10
1. The article that I read this week, it examines global student mobility trends, the status of the U.S. as a study destination, and the challenges it faces. The article notes that while the U.S. remains the largest host country for international students due to its excellent academic system, diverse institutions, and cultural and economic …