The integration rituals of mobility students in Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Ana Filipa Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/13197
• topic: Globalizations; Internationalization; Culture; Intercultural communication; Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Integration; Cultural shock; Mobility programmesds; Globalização; Choque cultural; Internacionalização; Cultura; Faculdade de Letras; Comunicação intercultural; Programas de mobilidade; Integração; Gestão

As globalization has grown, cultural boundaries have shrunk. Intercultural encounters are a reality to the world, and the rise of outside countries experiences have almost become a must have. The competitive world demands that people are acquaintance with others’ reality –that is, different cultural backgrounds. To have an insight on others’ cultural reality can be an advantage. Nowadays, this experience is lived mainly by college students. It is due to this demand that mobility programmes are created. In this context, higher institutions have internationalized to follow the globalized world needs. However, an open world with more prepared and openminded people, does not stop the culture shock when confronted with other reality, which means it is crucial to have an adaption and integration process. It happens especially in student mobility context, where young people have a short period of time to have a full experience and live the whole process. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto was founded in 1919, and is nowadays University of Porto’s institution which receives more foreign people per year. Therefore, there is the need to develop its reception and integration process to compete with the number of people that arrive each year. In this internship report, we shall focus on the globalization and internationalization, the mobility programmes and its emergence, and the activities planned for the academic year 2018/2019.