Integrating Study Abroad into the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum: Eight Institutional Case Studies

by Barbara B. Burn

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313277801
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1991
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Education , #44
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

BARBARA B. BURN is Associate Provost for International Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Higher Education in Nine Countries, Higher Education Reform, and Expanding the International Dimension of Higher Education.

Table of Contents

The Articulation Project: Introduction by Barbara B. Burban
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. Burban
Appendix I: Participants in the Project, Project Consultants and Other Workshop Participants
References
Index