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In this session, we discuss the conceptual and practical aspects of leading Travel Abroad courses and creating community in a global setting. These courses transform individual students’ lives in deep and lasting ways and create natural learning communities. By immersing students in another culture with their peers, Travel Abroad courses facilitate students’ openness to experience while enhancing their cultural competence. Students are empowered to “see” their own culture through a new lens and appreciate better their critical role in the global community. With faculty leaders as guides, they make the oft-thrilling discovery that their personal limits are greater than imagined.
Author(s):
Lucy Arendt
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
United States
Robin Sronce
Drury University
United States
