CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY Authors Anna Kurumchina - Svetlana Lipatova

Corporate social responsibility of university, Cultural security in the context of cultural security both for students and for local community Cultural adaptation of international student. The problem Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

1) interview of international students and representatives of local community, 2) content analysis of different cultural events aimed at international students and devoted to cultural adaptation, 3) content analysis of curricula. Methods of research Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Corporate Social Responsibility of University According to European Commission Strategy to be socially responsible means to take responsibility for the impact that corporation makes on society. According to the UrFU rector, ‘this university is marketed as scientific and educational, and innovative center that prepares intellectual elite, highly qualified professionals in different spheres. Ural federal university combines many interests and areas and has chosen individual values, values of education and research, principles of academic freedom, professional responsibility, team- spirit and institutional autonomy as its fundamental marks of development’ (Koksharov, 2015). Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Cultural Cultural security anthropological conceptaesthetic approach cultural security explores cultural intelligence and the role of cultural property in international security. problem in correlation with modern threats that change the ways of life Personal culture and ability to adapt Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Research 1229 international students from 60 countries are studying in Ural Federal university. Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Survey Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Expectations about Russians was not justified 99,5% was not justified 99,5% was not justified

Smiling Unsmiling Caring Gloomy Easy Don’t communicating know people English Expectations - Reality Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova Cultural stereotypes Russians are always drunk and do not have churches Smoking and drinking publicly women are prostitutes

Yu-Li Chen, ‘A diversified community demands that students have the adequate cross-cultural competence (CCC) to work and live with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, to become globally competitive, today’s students must possess certain skills to interact successfully with people who are different from themselves’ Cross-cultural competence Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Buddy system of UrFU nturfu

Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova Curricula analysis The only subject that relates to the Russian culture is Russian as a foreign language, that had 8 ECTS for two academic years.

Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova Outputs - Recommendations Language outside the university Misunderstanding of the way of life (some pattern of behavior Lack of curricula components/subjects about Russian culture or Cross-Cultural Competence

Cultural AdaptationAnna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova Thank you. Anna Kurumchina, PhD in Philosophy of Culture, Associate Professor of Ural Federal University