The aim of this research is to gain insight into how students from the various undergraduate programs at a university think about wood as the full members of society with a focus on understanding young people’s opinions by asking to write a short essay as a term paper on a wood. This article is a subjective qualitative research by making content analysis based on the evaluation of the term papers of the higher education students who have taken the elective course “Importance of Wood in Intercultural Interaction” in fall and spring semesters and summer schools in three years period. Students’ essays were evaluated and analysed on the extent to which they contained the pure definitions about wood in point of the number of words essentially starting with "Wood …". In all, there were a total of 1478 definitions that came from 446 essays after the elimination of identical ones, and the results showed that there were a wide variety of different viewpoints on the same subject.

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