Teaching

Global Citizenship for Study Abroad

The Global Citizenship courses helps students learn competencies needed for effective and appropriate engagement with people and issues in the world. Students use their time abroad to interact with the local community and reflect on cultural encounters. Upon return, students delve deeper into regions and issues of the world, contextualizing their first-hand experiences within historical, geographical, cultural, and religious phenomenon. Special attention is placed on defining global citizenship and personal responsibility in the world, including how to take the competencies developed abroad and apply them in engagement with global issues.

The Global Academy is a unique experience exploring global issues from a variety perspectives. A particular emphasis is placed on examining the tension between competing individual, cultural, and global forces. Prior to departure, students gain foundational information, and while abroad, students to synthesize and apply learning as they engage with people and issues in the world. Solution-based approaches that address environmental, economic, and social sustainability will be explored. Topics may include health, education, clean water, social inequities, wildlife preservation, and economic growth.

Cultures & Subcultures:

This course examines language as a fundamental, although often unconscious, component of our identity and our relationships with others.  Examining how language shapes, and is shaped by our culture, our relationships with others, and our purpose offers insight into our identities.

Gender:

This course examines the role of language in the expression and creation of gender identities. Gender differences in language structure and use, the acquisition of gendered ways of speaking, and sexism in language will be explored.