Integrating Study Abroad into the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum

by Burn, Barbara B.

• ISBN13: 9780313277801
• ISBN10: 031327780X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-06-01
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

This book deals with an issue of increasing concern to college educators--the relationship of study abroad to the home campus curriculum. All too often, American undergraduates find that their study abroad experience has little relation to their home campus studies. The eight case studies presented herein provide the insight necessary to help college educators and administrators successfully internationalize their students' degree programs. The contributors describe activities undertaken at eight colleges and universities as part of the Articulation Project. Launched in January 1987, the project was designed first to identify the factors, circumstances, and attitudes that prevent study abroad from being an important and integral part of the total undergraduate degree program. A second goal was to identify and encourage institutional strategies and policies aimed at eliminating or at least reducing these obstacles. The underlying aim of the project and the goal of this collective work is to strengthen international studies and encourage the internationalization of undergraduate education in the United States by making study abroad more important to and recognized within it. Educators committed to these ideals will find this volume essential reading.

Table of Contents

The Articulation Project: Introduction by Barbara B. Burn

Relevant Results from the Study Abroad Evaluation Project by Jerry S. Carlson

Earlham College: Connecting Off-Campus Learning by Richard Jurasek

Kalamazoo College: Study Abroad and Foreign Language Learning by Joe Fugate

The University of California: Faculty Support, the Needed Link by Theda Shapiro

The University of Colorado at Boulder: The International Affairs Major by Jean Delaney

Pomona College: Factors Influencing Students' Decisions to Study Abroad by Cecilia Cloughly

Georgetown University: The Articulation of Study Abroad Programs and Home Campus Curriculum by William W. Cressey

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Making Connections by Maryelise S. Lamet and Carol J. Lebold

Smith College: Impacts on Home-campus and International Studies Curriculum of Smith's Strong Study Abroad Commitment by Robert C. Davis and Patricia C. Olmsted

Internationalizing Undergraduate Education Through Study Abroad: Issues and Outlook by Barbara B. Burn

Appendix I: Participants in the Project, Project Consultants and Other Workshop Participants

References

Index