College's Semester in Mexico program, which models a dialogic pedagogy as a

response to postmodernity. Augsburg College, which began in 1869 as a

Lutheran seminary and retains its ties to the church, runs a Center for Global

Education which organizes short-term travel seminars for community people

and semester-long terms for undergraduates. Augsburg's international

programs are "grounded in the perspectives of the poor and of others

struggling for justice and human dignity," according to the school's catalogue.

International education has become part of the identity of Saint Olaf's, another

college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. About 65 percent of

Saint Olaf's graduates have taken a course overseas, either through each fall's

Global Semester, Term in the Middle East, or Term in Asia, or through other

multicultural and international offerings. Earlham College, affiliated with the

Society of Friends, has fostered a relationship with Japan since the late 19th

century, and now includes the Institute for Education on Japan among its

international programs. All of Earlham's overseas programs require students

to complete an ethnographic study of their host culture.⁵Scores of other

church-related liberal arts colleges boast study-abroad programs, or formally

encourage students to experience some type of international education before

graduation.

As is obvious from the particular programs mentioned above, as well as

multiple others at colleges and universities and educational consortiums,

formats for international education vary considerably. Occasionally U.S.

students simply enroll at a foreign university with the hope that credits will

be transferred back into their stateside transcript. Usually, students enroll

5_{Fuller descriptions of some of these and 20 other programs can be found in}
Ann Kelleher, Learning from Success:Case Studies in International Program
Development(New York:Peter Lang, 1996).

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