Bulletin Course Description:
IN 350. Global Studies (3) Junior year. Global studies courses contain a substantial dimension of cultural and social structural comparison. Students will gain substantive understanding of how the diversity of the world affects their everyday lives. A significant component of these courses that reach beyond the United States and students are exposed to primary sources from multiple cultures. Global studies courses contain a significant research component, which encourage students to explore culturally diverse points of view.
Global Studies Student Learning Outcome Goals
Millikin University’s Global Studies courses explore the fundamental diversity and interconnectedness of the world beyond the ethnocentric paradigms of dominant cultures. Global studies courses include a substantial comparative dimension so that students gain an understanding of how the diversity of the world affects their everyday lives. Students are exposed to primary sources (texts, music, artifacts) coming from multiple cultures and conduct research to explore culturally diverse points of view. The course helps students step outside their pre-conceived cultural perspectives and stereotypes and to look at the world from other perspectives as well as to see the interconnected nature of the contemporary world.
The learning goals in Global Studies courses are that students will able to:
1. compare cultural and social structures by examining primary sources from multiple cultures beyond the United States,
2. gain substantive understanding of how the diversity of the world affects their everyday lives, and
3. further develop their abilities to conduct research, which encourages students to explore culturally diverse points of view.
IN350 Connections to Millikin University’s Mission
These learning goals are related to all three Millikin University-Wide Goals in substantial and meaningful ways, particularly in the area of Democratic Citizenship in Globally Diverse Communities. As part of the MPSL GE Sequential Program, Global Studies courses offer students a final step in their ever-broadening views of the world.
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