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- Title
The Minnesota Intercultural Seminar.
- Authors
Arny, Clara Brown
- Abstract
This article provides information pertaining to the Intercultural Seminar, an education program intended for wives of foreign graduate students initiated at the University of Minnesota. The Intercultural Seminar was offered for the first time in 1962-1963 in the General Extension Department of the university. Short courses were offered which consisted of four weekly units, with two-hour periods. By 1965-1966, in response to student request, each unit was expanded and came to consist of six sessions instead of four. The same four units have continued to be offered namely Family Life in Different Cultures, Child Development, Nutrition, and Family Economics. The Seminar has contributed to the family relationships of the students. It is not yet possible to evaluate the impact of the Seminar so far as what the students will do when they return home. However, many of them have come to recognize social and economic problems in their own cultures and they have begun to think in terms of possible improvements. With new awareness of the potentialities for improved family functioning, the wives are likely to play a leadership role in effecting social change back home both by example and specific efforts in their fields of specialty.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; EDUCATIONAL programs; FOREIGN students' spouses; FAMILY literacy; FAMILIES; EDUCATION; SOCIOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1966, Vol 28, Issue 3, p360
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/349888