34 - Wednesday, April 1, 1987 - North Shore News

COLLEGE COURSE TARGETS BUSINESS

Pacific Rim studies start at Cap

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Cooperative program is a new
program at Capilano College that
focuses attention on business op-
portunities in the Pacific Rim

**B.C.’s future clearly lies in the
Pacific Rim,"’ said Capilano Col-
lege president Dr. Douglas Jar-
dine. ‘‘And we must prepare for
that future now.”’

The program has two compo-

Students
arrive
from Japan

THE FRIENDSHIP be-
tween a West Vancouver
teacher and a Japanese in-
dustrialist has now grown
into a yearly exchange for
Grade 8 and 9 West Van-
couver students.

By ANNELIES RAVENSBERGEN
Contributing Writer

Teacher Kit Krieger, who has
taught at West Van's Sentinel Sec-
ondary School for 15 years, initi-
ated the program. It grew out of
his friendship with Yoshiro Goto,
a Japanese industrialist, whose son
lived in Canada for seven years,
Krieger said.

“He believes the Japanese will
benefit by becoming more
cosmopolitan,’’ he said, adding
that the Japanese society is very
homogenous,

In 1981, the first exchange took
place, and was repeated in 1985
and 1986. The West Vancouver
students visit Japan in the fall,
while the Japanese pay their return
visit in the spring. The students
‘stay with each others’ families to
experience the other lifestyle.

The Japanese students arrived in
Vancouver March 22 for their
two-week visit.

“The Japanese students seem
pleased to be here and re-establish
the friendships,’’ Krieger said. He
said they comment on the scenic
beauty and spaciousness.

-The Japanese students attend
school at Sentinel for a few days,
then visit the legislature in Vic-
toria, tour the city and visit
museums.

Krieger said the language can be
a problem. ‘‘The Japanese learn
English the way we learn French,”’
Krieger said, adding that the stu-
dents communicate in international
sign language.

Krieger said the Canadian stu-
dents ‘‘loved the home-stay pro-
gram’ in Japan. To quatify the
Sentinel students need to meet the
academic requirements and attend
40 hours of pre-departure prepara-
tion, Krieger said. ‘‘They have an
expectation when they go, we
don’t throw them cold turkey,’’ he
said.

The primary goal of the pro-
gram is to highlight the Japanese
culture, and to become intimate
with the Japanese lifestyle, Krieger
said, Last year’s trip included a
visit to Tokyo and Hiroshima.

The program aiso aims at long-
term exchanges. Fifteen-year-old
Masatka Taki will be the first
full-year student to attend Sen-
tinel. He will arrive chis fall and
board with a local family.

Taki has visited the North Shore
on a previous exchange and has a
good command of the English lan-
guage, Krieger said.

The exchange program is
spreading to other West Vancouver
schools. ‘‘West Vancouver Sec-
ondary will send its first group this
fall’

nents, an eight-month segment of
intensive courses in Pacific and
Asian Studies which includes lan-
guage and culture, and a four-to-
12 month cooperative work term
to provide on-the-job experience in
Canada or overseas.

Career targets include such areas
as finance, international marketi-
ng, development, applied techno-
logy, education, planning and
government and non-government

agencies.

Canadian export is shifting to
the west. In 1985 Canada’s exports
to the Asia Pacific region were
valued at $10 billion, of which $4
billion was generated by B.C. That
same year, $8 billion was exoorted
to Europe, with only $1.3 billion
of that total from B.C., statistics
show.

“We have had this program in
the planning stages for five years

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see it get Off the ground,” Jardine
said. Education about the
economics, politics, geography,
cultures and social and business
aspects of the Pacific Basin is
needed, he said.

“We expect to see the program
launch a number of successful new
careers, but even more important,
we feel that we will be contributing
to Canada’s development hy in-

creasing the effectiveness of the
people who represent Our country’s
interests overseas,’’ he said.

The one-year program is aimed
at university graduates and
business people who are looking at
an international career. The pro-
gram will start this fall and is
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