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1 online resource (26 min.) |
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Australasian video online |
| Summary |
It's the first day of semester and new students are arriving at one of Queensland's oldest universities about to embark on their studies, an experience that may well change them forever. What are their expectations and what will they discover? Some students are local and some have travelled many thousands of miles and their first priority is to find a place to live. Twenty-four year old journalism masters student Wei Wei has come to Australia from China to learn more about Western thinking and improve her English. First she has to find somewhere to live and figure out just what her teachers are saying. In the course of her studies however she has her lucky breaks. She arranges an interview with now Federal opposition leader Kevin Rudd, and is nervous about her ability to converse in English, only to find that he is fluent in Mandarin. But can she write up the interview in English? American exchange student Emily Laird is to spend one semester in Australia studying psychology. She is hoping to make some Australian friends, as well as enjoy Australia as a visitor. She discovers that 95 per cent of American exchange students through her program fail to make Australian friends. Will her experience be the same? First-year engineering student Gurteaj Atwal Singh from regional Queensland will be staying in on-campus accommodation at International House. His farming family is covering the cost of his studies and living expenses as he undertakes a degree notorious for its high drop-out rate. Not only does he have to deal with his studies, but the additional financial pressures of university life, particularly as a cyclone destroys his family's annual banana crop |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed November 3, 2014) |
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In English |
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College students -- Australia
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Students, Foreign -- Australia
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College students -- Australia -- Attitudes
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College students -- Australia -- Social conditions
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College students -- Australia -- Economic conditions
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Universities and colleges -- Australia
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College students.
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College students -- Attitudes.
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College students -- Economic conditions.
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College students -- Social conditions.
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Students, Foreign.
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Universities and colleges.
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Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Wood, Randall (Director)
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Hart, Phoebe (Filmmaker)
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Mailman, Deborah.
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