A research on joining clubs among aep students

NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ENG100 COURSE *** A RESEARCH ON JOINING CLUBS AMONG AEP STUDENTS Class Advanced Finance 59B Group WE BARE BEARS Nguyễn Phương Thảo Nguyễn Thù[.]

NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ENG100 COURSE *** A RESEARCH ON JOINING CLUBS AMONG AEP STUDENTS Class: Advanced Finance 59B Group: WE BARE BEARS Nguyễn Phương Thảo Nguyễn Thùy Trang Hoàng Phạm Tuấn Dũng Instructor: Ms Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen M.A Ha Noi, 2018 Joining clubs among AEP students LIST OF ABBREVIATION NEU: National Economics University AEP: Advanced Educational Program GYC: Generation of Youth Club BSK: Event Management Department of AEP (Ban kiện AEP) AEPW: AEP World Magazine ETS: English Club for Talented Students DES: Debate Empowering Sociality We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.1 Figure The categories of AEP’s students intakes Joining in AEP’s club of students doing the survey 4.2 Figure The awareness of AEP’s students about AEP’s clubs 4.3 Figure Percentages of member of AEP’s clubs in students doing the 4.4 survey Figure The reason why AEP’s students joined clubs 4.5 Figure The soft skills brought by AEP’s clubs 4.6 Figure The usefulness of soft skills brought by AEP’s clubs 4.7 Figure The influence of joining AEP’s clubs to future career 4.8 Figure 4.9 Figure The impact of joining AEP’s clubs on students’ networking The factors result in stress among members of the AEP’s clubs 4.10 Figure The influence of joining AEP’s clubs on students’ daily 4.11 We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students routine Figure The impact of joining AEP’s clubs upon study concentration 4.12 Figure 4.13 Figure The effect of AEP’s clubs to school work Type of expenses of AEP’s students when being in a club 4.14 Figure Monthly expenditure of AEP’s students when being in a club 4.15 Figure 4.16 The reasons why AEP’s students did not join a club Figure The soft skills AEP’s students may achieve without joining 4.17 clubs Figure The solutions to negative influences from AEP club 4.18 members’ perspective Figure The methods to manage time more effectively from AEP club 4.19 members’ perspective Figure The time management ways AEP’s non-club members 4.20 suggest to members of AEP club’s members Figure The frequency of “withdrawal” thought among members of 4.21 AEP’s clubs We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Abbreviation i List of Figures ii Table of contents iii I Introduction Title Background Rationale and purposes Research questions Scope Research methodology Research outline II Literature review Some basic definitions Positive effects of joining in student club Negative effects of joining in student club III Research design IV Findings A Perception of AEP’s students B Positive effects of being a member in AEP clubs C Negative effects of being a member in AEP clubs D Some possible solutions V Conclusion References iv Appendix v We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students I INTRODUCTION Title: Joining clubs among AEP students Background: Clubs and organizations are a big part of college life A club is “a group of students organized with a similar interest for a social, literary, athletic, political, or other common purpose; while an organization is a group of students organized for and acting toward a particular cause” (Channel Islands California State University, 2013) Students have the opportunity and choose to join these groups for many reasons including: pursuit of individual interests; career networking opportunities; social camaraderie; and political activisms Most colleges and universities have a very active student club and organizational system that can be accessed by visiting on-campus offices and individual websites Attending college club brings many new aspects and transition in a student’s life, including a new level of independence and responsibility Nowadays, in most universities in Vietnam, the activities of students clubs are increasingly organized, attracting many students to participate with the aim of giving students the ability to improve their knowledge and help them become more active and confident; training soft skills The number of clubs in high schools or universities are increasing sharply In NEU, there are 36 clubs and organizations including volunteering, academic, cultural, art, economic, sports, event-organizing for students In AEP, there are clubs with a lot of purposes, causing confusion for the student to make a decision Therefore, this research will deeply analyze about AEP students’ motivation to participate in a club, as well as positive and negative effects of involving in a student organization Rationale and purposes: This research’s objects are AEP students of NEU, especially freshmen Being supposed as proactive and possess-opportunity ones, students of AEP differ from students from standard program in three main aspect: educational environment, studying curriculum, and outdoor activities Joining a club when entering university become an important issue for every AEP students Many researchs have been We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students conducted with the topic related to how student club affects the students, the effects of extra activities on students’ academic performances, as well as the advantages and the disadvantages of university clubs in general… The topic of our group’s research is rather different When study, we not only point out the two-side feature of university clubs to the students, but also focus on analyzing the perception of AEP students to these issue The main beneficiary of our research is students in AEP, especially freshman who have a special concern about joining a club during university time, so that we care much about their thoughts and opinions as well as concentrate on analyzing all things according to their demands and expectations From those reasons above, this research is carried out to investigate the motivation of AEP students to join clubs, examine the negative side of joining clubs and suggest some solutions that could help to improve the situation Thence, lessons will be given to AEP students in particular and to NEU students in general Research questions: These questions below will be answered in this research: 1) What are the motivations of AEP students to join a club? 2) What are the negative effects of participating in the clubs during university time? 3) What are some possible solutions for AEP students to balance between academic life and club tasks? Scope: The target of this study are students intake 57 to 60 from Advanced Educational Program of the National Economics University (NEU), especially on AEP students who are freshmen We focus on the motivation of them to join a club and some positive as well as negative effects they gained while being in those clubs so as to answer the research questions We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students Research methodology: 6.1 Research tool: Survey method  Questionnaires  Interview 6.2 Data collection Sample: This research will be made on 260 people who are freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior in NEU Primary data  Questionnaires A list of questions will be made to gain a deeper understanding of some aspects of AEP students who joining clubs such as the motivation, the reasons, the positive and negative sides, … The survey would use Google form as a platform and it will be conducted on 200 students  Interview The interview will be conducted with members of some clubs in AEP program The main purposes of the interview are to figure out the interviewees’ expectations, reasons, motivation, opportunities and challenges relating to joining club Initial questions will be based on the guiding questions Further interviewing will be took place if responses need further clarification and information In order to elicit this depth of response from the informants, two crucial elements of interview technique will be adopted First of all, each interview will be long enough to give the interviewees as much comforts as possible Equally important, the interviewers should allow informants the freedom to recall and share their mind about joining clubs The interview will be recorded Secondary data: documents from the Internet We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students 6.3 Data analysis Document analysis is something that will happen concurrently with interviews as they will provide the basis for refining interview questions Document analysis: We analyze the data from documents in order to get more information of the definition, purposes and activities of university clubs 6.4 Interview analysis: The first analysis will involve noting significant patterns in the “subjective” data  The next step involves getting the participants to comment on subsequent interview questions Thus, the data becomes available for comments and reinterpretation Another stage of data analysis involves developing the issue from the process of drawing conclusions and verifying Collectively, the interviews and document study will provide detailed accounts of the definition, purposes, activities of university clubs and opportunities as well as difficulties of working in these clubs, particularly event-organizing ones Research outline/ Structure: This research is about university club problems, we divided our research into parts The first part will be the introduction of our research topic: a brief background about ‘student clubs’ in Vietnam, purpose of this report, scope of the survey and the research methods were used in order to gather figures and approach the targets Secondly, the literature review will enrich knowledge of university clubs in general by showing the facts and the benefits and drawbacks that students have to face with while involving in a student organization Next is the research design in which describe our method of research tools After collecting the answers from AEP students, we will show the results through Findings part All the numbers and answers will be presented through charts, this will help us to answer the research question which has been made in the introduction Furthermore, lessons will be suggested for AEP students as well as We bare bears group Joining clubs among AEP students NEU students so as to improve the situation Finally, the conclusion will summarize the process and result of this report, list down some limitation of the report and propose some further studies We bare bears group .. .Joining clubs among AEP students LIST OF ABBREVIATION NEU: National Economics University AEP: Advanced Educational Program GYC: Generation of Youth Club BSK: Event Management Department of AEP. .. Joining clubs among AEP students I INTRODUCTION Title: Joining clubs among AEP students Background: Clubs and organizations are a big part of college life A club is ? ?a group of students organized... data, there are nine active clubs in AEP at this time, which are: BSK AEP, The Generation of Youth Club (GYC), AEP We bare bears group 90 Joining clubs among AEP students World Magazine, Debate