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This article features the Semester at Sea Program, a program originated as a University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania program which takes an interdisciplinary approach to multicultural global education, enabling students to integrate their studies in language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and the arts. In this program college students spend a full semester traveling around the globe and studying aboard the S. S. Universe, an 18,000 ton oceanliner. The Semester at Sea Program is guided by clearly defined educational goals. It provides its participants with experiences that are consistent with the five interdisciplinary dimensions of global education established in Hanvey's classic definition. According to the authors, the most influential and potentially harmful situations for multicultural studies are those in which quasi-experts, who are unconsciously incompetent, determine what should constitute global education in the schools in the U.S. The Semester at Sea Program provides current, accurate information and opportunities to clarify cultural concepts and global understanding through authentic learning experiences. It simultaneously takes the classroom out into the real world and brings the world into the classroom. |
