CRPS - Field Trip to Thailand (PhotoBlog)

Photo Blog: Our Community and Regional Policy Studies (CRPS) Major, International Student Ambassador, Sakshi, shares her photos on this research field trip to Thailand as part of her studies. Ritsumeikan University students on our single-degree programs focus their studies in Japan, also have opportunities to go abroad to deepen their studies in their respective majors.

Community and Regional Policy Studies is a unique major that blend Social Sciences with Sciences to find policy solutions to problems.

Photo Gallery follows after introduction and explanation from Sakshi. Be sure to scroll down.

The College of Policy Science provides us students a platform to extend critical thinking skills and gain an in-depth insight into the subject area in order to adopt a problem-solving mindset and work towards resolving societal issues. One of the major highlights of this program is the preeminent On-site Research Project, which facilitates to find practical and creative solutions for community issues transcending spatial boundaries.

After the successful approval of the Research Proposal by the faculty, I, along with my other fellow classmates had the opportunity to visit Thailand during the summer break, in the early September 2019. This field trip has by far, been one of the most influential means of learning.

Working in groups as small research teams enabled us to check the ground reality of the issue providing a hands on experience of working together and finding effective and not superficial prospects of solution to the issue.

Apart from that, there was a lot of meaning involved in this trip for me. Visiting the research sites, interacting with the respondents amplified human interaction which made me realize that we, as a global society, are all dealing with the same problems surpassing national borders. People, communities, and societies might be way too different from each other in the exterior, but comprehending that the challenges that each faces is same at the core, thus verified the fact that we indeed all come from the same source.

This On-site Research Project facilitated me in building friendships across borders, helped me in enhancing my critical reasoning by broadening my mind and left teaching me the importance of the basic of all values - mutual respect for each other.

This blog is an experience, opinion and thought provided by an individual student.