{"id":532,"date":"2019-05-24T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/?p=532"},"modified":"2019-05-24T13:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:32:36","slug":"my-experience-with-war-studies-at-kcl-zhinan-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/2019\/05\/24\/my-experience-with-war-studies-at-kcl-zhinan-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"My experience with War studies at KCL &#8211; Zhinan Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-527\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/files\/2019\/05\/zhang-22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/files\/2019\/05\/zhang-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/files\/2019\/05\/zhang-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/files\/2019\/05\/zhang-22-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"color: #201f1e;background: white\">Speaking of the academic benefit of studying at King&#8217;s, I have to mention the prestige of King&#8217;s College London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"color: #201f1e;background: white\">The courses I have taken on at KCL includes War studies and foreign languages. As an international relation major at my home university, War study is something that intrigues me, but I had no idea where even to start. At King&#8217;s, I was able to learn interesting topics like &#8220;Military strategy&#8221;, \u00a0&#8220;War and global conflict,&#8221; and &#8220;War and society.&#8221; The contents of the courses span from actual battlefield strategic planning, global war history, to war philosophy. I have sat in the classroom with my classmates listens to the experience of war from British war veterans. I have also learned a lot more about the conflicts in the Middle East from our Israeli professor. But comparing to all this, what I&#8217;ve gained the most is changing to a different way of thinking as a war study student, which is quite a refreshing experience for someone passionate about topics on International relations and human rights. In regards to the foreign language module, I was able to learn Japanese from the caring professor and speaking tutor from the modern language department, which boosted my confidence in speaking Japanese. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"color: #201f1e;background: white\">All in all, the academic experience at King&#8217;s was able to help me learn more about what I&#8217;m passionate about, from a completely different viewpoint. As an international relations major, looking at the world as a global citizen is what matters. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the academic benefit of studying at King&#8217;s, I have to mention the prestige of King&#8217;s College London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,4],"tags":[121,120,131,122,112,128,117,114,159,170,190,149],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excellence-scholarships","category-inbound","category-incomingstudents","tag-academia","tag-city-life","tag-class","tag-classes","tag-excellence-scholarship","tag-excellence-scholarships","tag-kings-college-london","tag-london","tag-london-life","tag-modules","tag-university-of-southern-california","tag-why-kings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}