Is it Study Abroad Without Overseas Study?
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The article was originally posted in The Chronicle of Higher Education's Latitudes.
Is it study abroad without overseas study?
Myles Winegrad spent last spring studying in Florence. But the mechanical-engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh didn’t spend all that much time in an Italian classroom.
That’s because Winegrad took several of his classes online through a program by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), a nonprofit study-abroad provider, that allows students to take Arizona State University virtual courses. It enabled him to squeeze in electives needed for his engineering major, along with face-to-face courses on site.
With its sequenced courses and heavy degree requirements, engineering has long had a reputation as a field of study that can make it tricky to go abroad. For Winegrad — who was playing catch-up after changing his major from neuroscience — the availability of online classes was key to what he calls “the best three and a half months of my life.”
“I probably wouldn’t have gone abroad if I didn’t have those ASU courses,” he said. “It’s really what sealed it.”
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