Zombie Outbreak on GIST Campus!

- GIST college kicks off special “zombie” orientation camp for rookies on Feb. 10

- 143 students admitted by rolling admission process will carry out situational projects to deal with zombie outbreak
- Prepare rookies for English lectures and school life by providing special lectures on humanities, society and basic science

 

 

 

      picture : Cover page of the 2014 GIST college rookies orientation camp textbook

 

□ Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST, President ž Young Joon Kim) will hold a special camp which will have the theme of “zombie” during February 10~26 for rookies who were admitted through the rolling admission process for 2014.

 

○ GIST College which has recruited undergraduates since 2010 has held a rookies orientation camp every February for those who were admitted through the rolling admission process, so that they can improve English skills in preparation for lectures to be given all in English and easily adjust themselves to school life.

 

○ During the 3-week camp, participants will stay at the dormitory of GIST College, attend special lectures on humanities and sociology by professors and English classes by native speaker instructors, and pick up leaning skills on basic science.

 

□ The “GIST College Rookies Orientation Camp” which celebrates its 5^th anniversary departed from its typical format this year. It will be run as an English immersion program under the unique theme of “Zombie Outbreak on GIST Campus” and participants can improve English skills by implementing project assignments.

 

○ “Project-centered English study method” refers to a learning methodology which induces students to actively use English while implementing various project assignments such as presentation, poster and media production, rather than providing them with one-way English lectures.

 

Participants to the camp can improve English communication skills including terminology and grammar while undertaking various projects together with their peers and repeat learning process over and over.

 

□ The rookies orientation camp lasts 3 weeks under the virtual situation of zombie outbreak on campus. Students will be assigned to implement various projects relating to zombies, such as debates, watching movies, movie making, poster presentation, etc.

 

○ For instance, these assignments will include △ produce news articles on the zombie outbreak △ establish strategies to survive the zombie outbreak by using terrains on the campus, △ discuss how to remove zombies △ debate ethics issues concerning the removal of zombies. Implementation of the projects will be done all in English, from sharing information and opinions to drawing up guidelines, with the help of native English instructors.

 

○ The orientation camp is aimed to help rookies to get adjusted to the tradition and academic atmosphere of GIST which has offered major classes in English since its foundation and to learn about facilities and their locations on campus, thereby getting ready to kick start a new school life.

 

□ In particular, the “zombie” orientation camp, which was tried for the first time, was designed to stimulate interest in English communication skills which are one of essential qualities of science technology talents and in school life at GIST college, so that they can develop trouble-shooting skills as scientist and more actively engage themselves in the rookies orientation camp.

 

○ ‘Zombie’ was the right theme to choose so as to let students naturally pick up English expressions and concepts of technology and medicine. While working on survival strategies in the face of zombie outbreak, they will have to explain various test equipment and machines, describe signs of zombies and discuss ethics issues regarding the removal of zombies all in English, thus learning English medical terminologies.

 

□ Dean of GIST College, Noh Do Young, said “This zombies project was actually the benchmark of a successful project-based learning program which was initiated by a geology teacher in the US. Zombie is an interesting subject to many young students, and I expect the orientation camp will help rookies improve English skills and better adjust themselves to GIST University specialized in science and technology.”

 

□ The orientation camp will end on February. 26, with presentations by students and the closing ceremony. The official matriculation ceremony for the new students will be held on March 3.