ABSTRACT
This chapter is a case study detailing how the University of Minnesota (UofM) broadened and strengthened a curriculum integration strategy by focusing on career readiness for students while abroad and more effectively linking back to the university upon return. It discusses the project, the shift that consequently occurred within the institution, the alumni study, and the new methods devised for guiding students towards deeper competency gains, articulation, and understanding of skill transference from abroad to workplace. The central education abroad office at the UofM, the Learning Abroad Center, initiated and sustained a project called Curriculum Integration as a response to the university's ambitious goal. Education abroad research has shown that properly facilitated time spent studying abroad increases students’ intercultural competence. Beginning in September 2012, the Learning Abroad Center leadership and committee agreed to apply the methodology of curriculum integration to a set of specific career related goals.
