海外留学する人は日本では年々増加しています。アメリカではどうでしょうか。この記事ではメリーランドの小さな大学の例が紹介されています。確認してみましょう。
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Some of my students go abroad to study or for sightseeing. They all say it is a great experience. Recently, a college friend of mine wrote me with some interesting news. He is the president of a small college in Maryland, Goucher. He decided last year to require all Goucher students to go abroad for study. The minimum stay is three weeks, but many students decide to stay for up to a year. They receive credit for their study.
My friend said that a college education is not complete without exposure to a foreign culture. College students need to learn how different nationalities think about and deal with problems common to all human beings.
Nationally, the number of American students studying abroad has more than doubled over the past decade. There were 175,000 of them studying abroad last year. Still, this is only one percent of the total college population in America.
