Motivation Letter范文

Motivation Letter

Dear Professor:

I’m a postgraduate student from Peking University in China and I’m now a freshman. My English name is Lily, I choose this name because I want my personality as pure and peaceful as lily. During my undergraduate education, I mainly studied Tourism Management in Sun Yat-sen University, and took Business Communication as my minor. I have published a paper named "A Comparative Study on Two Models of Tourism Area Life Cycle" on Tourism Science as a second writer. When graduating, my dissertation had been honored as “outstanding”, and I was the Excellent Graduate Student of grade 06 in 2010.

Now I’m studying Environmental Planning and Management in the School of Environment and Energy in Peking University, my main interests concentrate on the environmental law and policy. In my opinion, the technological methods are only one aspect to solve the environmental issues, while, sometimes the social science perspective, like law, policy, risk regulation and etc., is the effective way, maybe the only way, to achieve that goal. So if I’m lucky enough to be admitted by University of Kent, I want to learn Environmental Social Science, and I would like to follow the courses like Social science perspectives on environmental issues, Environmental Law and Policy, International Environmental Law, Environmental anthropology, Environmental Politics, Techniques of Data Analysis and so forth. Although I have limited knowledge about environmental law and policy, I have learnt some basic knowledge about data analysis and anthropology, so I feel confident in myself to learn this subject well.

There are two reasons why I want to study abroad: For one reason, In Peking University, my tutor is engaged in the research of environmental law and risk regulation, since I don’t have the background of law and policy, It’s proper for me to take this chance to study environmental social science systematically and to accumulate some research experience, which will makes me competent to do better research in this field in my home university. For another reason, Studying abroad has been a dream since my junior high school, I keenly want to experience foreign education and foreign culture. Imagination and creativity can be stimulated through cross-cultural communication, and my mind will be widened by different training mode s, I think there’s also a responsibility for me to introduce my homeland, China, to the foreign friends, which will results to more understanding for Chinese culture and more exchange of ideas.

University of Kent is my first choice of the host university. Firstly, it has wonderful study program that is perfectly fit for me; Secondly, Canterbury was rated as the safest University city in England in the 2009 Complete University Guide, safety is always important for travel in my parents and my mind; Thirdly, I already have learnt some basic knowledge about English history and culture through studying the course “Intercultural Communication”, I tend to go to the place which I’m familiar with, thus I can quickly adapt to the life in the UK

In the future, I prefer to take a job in environmental protection department in m y homeland, so I need to learn related knowledge both at home and abroad to grasp different but advanced methods, notions, and the ways of thinking. Being an exchange student is an ideal way to help me realizing this dream faster.

Yours sincerely

Lily