Community Building: Study Abroad and the Small German Program

Abstract

Study abroad is often treated in terms of individual student outcomes, and has recently been discussed as potentially detrimental to smaller language programs—in that student participation in semester‐ or year‐long programs subtracts from enrollments in upper‐level courses. In this article, the promotion of study abroad in a small German program is presented as community‐building that can help to enhance and sustain small college programs by strengthening the community of German‐speakers and others interested in German on campus and abroad.

The Post-Sojourn in Study Abroad Research—Another Frontier

“…It also suggests that academic and social or emotional support be provided before, during, and after the sojourn and that critical guided reflection or self-examination of perspectives and learning be integrated not only in-, but also postsojourn. 5 In addition to those re-listed in footnote 2, there are: Adler (1981), Allen (2010Allen ( , 2013, Anderson, Lawton, Rexeisen, and Hubbard (2006), Armstrong (1984), Arouca (2013), Cagle (2011), Campbell (2015), Carlson, Burn, Useem, and Yachimovicz (1990), Chieffo and Griffiths (2004), Citron (2002), Coffey and Street (2008), Coleman and Chafer (2011), DeGraaf, Slagter, Larsen, and Ditta (2013), Dolby (2004), Fischer (2009), Franklin (2010), Gaw (2000), Guardino, Becker, Cannon, and Bustos (2015), Hadis (2005aHadis ( , 2005b, Holm (1990), Jackson (2006aJackson ( , 2006bJackson ( , 2008Jackson ( , 2009Jackson ( , 2010Jackson ( , 2013, Jiménez Jiménez (2003), Kauffman, Martin, Weaver, and Weaver (1992), Konstantinovskii and Voznesenskaia (2009), Llanes (2016), Malewski and Phillion (2009), Malmgren and Galvin (2008), Marx and Moss (2011), McGarrity (2014), Mendelson and Citron (2006), Mistretta (2008), Murphy, Sahakyan, Yong-Yi, and Magnan (2014)…”