Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU)

The courses are very repetitive, i.e. numerous courses that are listed as "Asia Pacific Studies" but all cover the same basics. There are a select few teachers that are good, however by and large most of the instructors are very sub-par and the teaching style is through power-points with little analysis. Again there are some good teachers here but most are quite bad.

The manner of assesment at APU is very very sub-par. It amounts to putting in input and then getting a grade back with no comments on performance. In a graduate level course I expect a lot of feedback and comments to aid in producing a sound thesis. This did not happen. I would suggest a complete overhaul of the academic program, one that focused on having a sound rational growth of classes and one that focused on sources rather than emotions, which is what many of the courses reflect. Grading needs to be more open and classes need to have a logical progression (not simply a series of identical introduction courses).

Chose carefully as some of the professors are pretty tuff!

There needs to be more discussion in classes, because most of the professors lecture and most people don't end up listening, and because of language barriers, it is always hard to follow

Establish your own study group, not only can have more chance to intercourse with local and foreign students, and very efficient as well. It is so much fun!

so much depends on professors... want good course? go for good the professors..

ninguno

too asia

emm more studies than social activities