TUJ undergraduate who studied abroad on Main Campus for the 2018–19 academic year Senior international business studies major “There’s definitely a lot of inspiration to draw from here.” “I’ve pretty much taken my camera everywhere and just taken video and photos,” Intoccia said of Tokyo. She said taking art classes in Tokyo, a global fashion hub, will round out her preparation for a career in art direction well. “I was really just amazed by how I could use my skills from class and apply them to this internship,” she said. Intoccia credits her courses with preparing her well for her internship. Her internship experience was so successful that the company offered her a full-time position soon thereafter. During summer 2019, before she traveled to Japan to study abroad, Intoccia interned at the headquarters. “So that’s why I decided to come here.”Īfter she graduates, Intoccia will move to Minneapolis to work as an art director at Target headquarters. “Japan is so far away, and it’s such a different culture, and I just thought it would be an amazing opportunity,” Intoccia said. Having completed the majority of the classes required for her major and securing a job offer for after her May 2020 graduation, Intoccia decided that she’d study at TUJ the first semester of her senior year. Michelle Intoccia, an advertising major focusing on art direction, didn’t think studying abroad was in the cards for her until she started to plan for her senior year and realized she had the time and the freedom to pursue a semester away. Main Campus student studying abroad at TUJ I really appreciate, because I know if I stayed in Canada and … did an international affairs program there, it wouldn’t be as diverse.” “Working in international affairs, it’s always good to understand the people you’re talking to so you don’t offend anyone. “I really enjoy socializing with people from different parts of the world, and I think TUJ is such a diverse campus,” Nyack said. She said that TUJ’s new campus has helped to increase participation in clubs and given her and other students more opportunities to connect and socialize, which is particularly important for her career goals. Nyack is heavily involved on campus, participating in the basketball club, drama club and student government, as well as working as a note-taker and escort for a student who is blind in her job with Disability Resource Services. “It’s made TUJ feel more like a university,” Nyack said of the move. TUJ’s diversity and its Tokyo location drew her in, and with its recent move to a new campus in Sangen-jaya, Nyack’s experience there has become even more rewarding. Nyack participated in a summer program for high schoolers at TUJ in 2015 and looked no further once she saw the school and Tokyo. “I thought that would be cool to be Canadian going to an American school in Japan.”

“I always wanted to work in an embassy or be a diplomat or work with an international organization,” said Nyack, who grew up in Alberta, Canada and is now a sophomore studying international affairs at TUJ.

And with her dream of working in the realm of international affairs, TUJ seemed like the perfect fit when she began searching for a college. Meet three of TUJ’s notable students, who all came to study on the campus for vastly different reasons, but who’ve found similar community and excitement in their courses and activities there.Īs a high-school student, Rebekkah Nyack found herself fascinated with Japanese culture and language, and she spent much of her time watching anime and reading manga-two well-known cultural phenomena in Japan. Students are drawn to the branch campus-the only place in Japan where students can earn an accredited four-year degree from an American university-for a wide variety of majors and to study alongside peers from myriad countries and cultures. Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) is home to a diverse student body that draws from Japan, the United States, and more than 60 countries around the world.

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