Pathway Reflection

First of all, I think the pathway program has great help to my future graduate study, and a lot of abilities have been enhanced, such as learning skill, communication and teamwork skills. The assignments and practices that the professions give us are the ones we will experience later in the graduate program. For example, during the period of pathway program, we have practiced a lot of presentation through various forms, such as individual presentation, group presentation and group poster. These tasks not only exercise our oral speaking skill but also strengthen the cooperation between the team members. To be more specific, every time before preparing presentations, I was afraid, but through these series of presentations, I felt that every experience had made me overcome a little bit of fear. In addition, I know that in the future graduate study many presentations required us to do, so the two semesters pathway program are very helpful for our speaking skill and critical thinking skill because we’ve never done English presentation before.

Secondly, this semester we have a MCP group program. It is a really difficult and helpful task for our future study because it is a comprehensive assignment including written paper and poster, so it requires us a lot of academic knowledges and abilities. At the same time, we also learned some academic paper requirements, such as APA style. During the period of MCP program, we often face all kind of problems. For example, every group was in a dilemma when we chose the object of study because we need more academic and specific, so it is really hard for us. Moreover, when we discussed together, everyone had different ideas, so we needed to discuss and choose that which idea is better for our study. This process not only exercised the tacit understanding between the team members, but also developed the ability of teamwork with group members. These skills and knowledges provide experience and help for our final graduation paper, and many courses will require a variety of group projects. Therefore, I believe that after the exercise of pathway program, I will solve difficulties easily in the future study.