Moving from STEM to STEAM - Broadening an Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program

In order to encourage students to pursue STEM careers, and to broaden the perspectives of students in STEM curricula with an infusion of the humanities in an effort to move toward a STEAM model, a multidisciplinary team of five faculty members created a family of six sixcredit courses for students with a variety of academic interests.Graduate students were integrated with undergraduate.Pedagogical techniques include face-to-face as well as both synchronous and asynchronous distance delivery, in addition to a faculty-led European study tour in each course.Courses in Intercultural Communication and Interpersonal Communication were added to a rotating sequence of four marketing and project based courses: Concepts in Global Logistics, Marketing Italy: Culture and the Italian Tourist Industry, International Project Management, and International Rural Economic Development.The strengths of our traditionally STEM focused curricula were augmented by the deliberate inclusion of the arts and a variety of intercultural exercises and experiences.