Although participation in education abroad programs by U.S. undergraduates has doubled in the past ten years, students majoring in the sciences continue to participate in much smaller numbers than their peers in the arts & humanities, foreign languages and social sciences. At Dickinson College in the 1990s, science majors rarely went abroad despite a high overall level of participation in the college's robust portfolio of programs. The College sought to increase education abroad opportunities for science majors through the creation of a program that specifically met the needs of these students, allowing them to progress in large, hierarchical majors at the host university. This poster describes the current program for science students -including those majoring in chemistry and biochemistry - that Dickinson offers at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom.

Education abroad in the sciences: Dickinson College's Norwich Science Program

245th National Meeting (2013)

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