Very serious changes need to be made to this exchange program... I found out today precisely how many classes I need to take to satisfy Tohoku's requirements for my exchange program.
Zero.
There are no requirements whatsoever... not even any guidelines. I am free to take any classes I choose, and have the option of either auditing classes or taking the assessment. Taking the assessment would mean that as far as Tohoku are concerned I get credit for the class based on work done, but ANU will not recognise any of it. Simply auditing classes would mean Tohoku would grant me a pass/fail result of pass, and as far as they are concerned I get credit for the class... but once again ANU will not recognise any of it.
If I wanted to take twenty hours of class a week and do the assessment for all of it, they are happy to let me. They are equally happy for me to sit at the back of one class a week, so long as I show up enough that the lecturer notices I am there often.
But because of ANU's setup, no matter what I do here they will not let me credit anything toward my real degree. Its as though this year is a black hole to be covered under the blanket description 'Year In Japan'.
Oh well.
At least this farce of being made to come two months before theres a place to stay will end here - theres a new ANU student coming over in October and from next year the program will only run in October.
Heading to the station now to catch the shinkansen back to Saitama.
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