Perhaps hosting study-breaks or other social functions that would allow current foreign students at Rice and American students at Rice to discuss their experiences in foreign cultures. A. Substituting the foreign language requirement with study abroad in a non-English speaking country. We would like to perhaps clarify and simplify the means by which this substitution is made so that more students understand that spending time in a non-English speaking country can satisfy their language requirement. We would also like to further investigate making a similar substitution to those students who work or volunteer abroad in a non-English speaking country for an extensive amount of time, perhaps more than a month. B. Lowering total hours required to graduate for those students who study abroad for one semester or more.
Many students feel they are unable to study abroad because of total hours required to graduate.
Rice should encourage students to study abroad and enable them to do so by making concessions with regard to total hours. Understandably, we are not asking for a significant decrease, but just enough to enable engineers to go abroad for a semester or two without having to take on a fifth year. Dr. Regina Kecht Consider introducing a system that gives credit for classes not offered exactly as listed in the Rice catalog. D. Increase publicity of the CSL sponsored UNIV courses on cross-cultural awareness. Improve Rice's resources for international opportunities.