As part of International Education Week, the World College and the Office of Student Affairs sponsored several events including the Study Abroad Fair and a discussion panel entitled Toward a Global Community. Eastern Michigan University offers a wide variety of Study Abroad programs to meet the needs of interested students. Benita Goldman, a program associate in Academic Programs Abroad, said those programs allow students to experience other cultures and learn about the world while earning EMU credits. Our Foreign Language Intensive Programs offer courses that are challenging and rewarding in an atmosphere of cultural immersion, Goldman said. In addition, another Study Abroad program at EMU is the Cultural History Tours.
Students get the possibility to extensively travel throughout Europe and Asia in a single semester.
This year EMU inaugurates the Latin American Cultural History Tour. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the political and historical issues facing Latin America and travel to Cuba, Goldman said. Heather Reickard, a senior majoring in International Business, took part in the Spanish program to Queretaro, Mexico, in 1997 and the RAMP Program, where she will go to Mexico in January 2000. I think that this is something everybody should do, Reickard said. It grows a person, being in a different culture.