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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
American and Global Perspectives
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John A. Scherpereel, American and Global Perspectives Coordinator
Courses in American and Global Perspectives require students to think critically about their own society and its relationship to the larger global community. These courses develop responsible and enlightened global citizenship by examining a wide variety of the processes that shape the human experience. Students will complete one course that focuses on the American experience and one course that examines the global experience.
American and Global Perspectives Learning Outcomes
The American Experience
After completing an American Experience course students will be able to identify, conceptualize and evaluate:
- Social and political processes and structures using quantitative and qualitative data.
- Primary sources relating to American history, political institutions and society.
- The evolution of intellectual concepts shaping American democratic institutions, including issues involving power, inequity and justice.
- The complexity and diversity of American politics, society and culture.
- Intentions and consequences of America’s engagement in global affairs.
- How the historical exclusion of various social identities influences political, social, cultural and economic development.
The Global Experience
After completing a Global Experience course students will be able to identify, conceptualize and evaluate:
- Basic global problems.
- Global political, social, cultural and economic systems that shape societies.
- Issues involved in analyzing societies different from one’s own.
- Strategies to achieve diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and access both locally and globally.
- The value and complexity of global diversity in all its forms.
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American and Global Perspectives Structure
American and Global Perspectives consists of seven credits distributed across two program requirements: The American Experience and The Global Experience. Students will choose one course to satisfy each of these two requirements. American and Global Perspectives requirements may be completed concurrently or individually, in any order. Students may not take both POSC 200 and POSC 225 to complete the American and Global Perspectives requirements.
The American Experience
Each American Experience course provides students with an understanding of the major themes and concepts that structure American life today. HIST 225 does so through a contextual and document-based study of the American historical experience that emphasizes the interaction of people, ideas and social movements. JUST 225 frames questions regarding historic and contemporary events in terms of issues of justice, highlighting how societal structures interact with individual lives and vice versa. POSC 225 focuses on the evolution and contemporary operation of the American political system by examining its fundamental principles and current dynamics.
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The Global Experience
Each of the courses in the Global Experience is an investigation into a series of global issues that are of great importance to the human community. Topics discussed will vary from course to course. Issues are examined in a systemic context that allows students to see connections between disciplines. The unifying theme is an analysis of overarching structures at the global level that condition people’s behavior and which are shaped by that behavior. From this perspective the study of global issues requires more than studying current events; it involves placing these global issues in a systemic context.
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