{"id":473,"date":"2022-01-15T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/projects\/global-immersion-program\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:35:13","slug":"global-immersion-program","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/projects\/global-immersion-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Immersion Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/global-immersian.jpeg\" alt=\"BU Digital Learning &amp; Innovation\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1882 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/global-immersian.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/global-immersian-500x318.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/global-immersian-166x106.jpeg 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each year, BU\u2019s College of Communication (COM) welcomes a growing number of accomplished graduate students from all over the globe. Despite extraordinary GPAs, TOEFL\/IELTS scores and years of coursework in English, many of these students struggle to adjust to the sometimes-subtle expectations and demands of English language-centric classrooms, internships, and employment in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful pilot phase with a select incoming class, the Global Immersion Program was offered to all international students from COM during 2014-2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This COM course was aimed at helping international graduate students to adjust to the sometimes-subtle expectations and demands of English language-centric classrooms, internships, and employment in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18026,"featured_media":1882,"template":"","meta":[],"projects_status":[123],"projects_dates":[227],"projects_topics":[137],"projects_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13162,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/473\/revisions\/13162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"projects_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_status?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"projects_dates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_dates?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"projects_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_topics?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"projects_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}