Citizen Scholars

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Program Director:

Stacia Rigney

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Participate in 3 Global Issue-oriented Events

These event should engage with a significant global issue that shapes lived conditions, practices, values, or interactions of people across localities (focus may be on conditions, policies, practices, debates, discussion of artistic or creative interventions, local/global dynamics, etc.)

Like the cross-cultural experiences requirement, this accomplishment asks you to attend 3 events and take notes about them, then to provide an overarching account of the key issues, debates, and questions each event covered, as well as the solutions or strategies for engaging that were suggested. It is particularly important in this reflection to consider how these global issues have consequences for our local, regional, and national contexts. Global understanding means recognizing the connections, complicities, and interrelationships between contexts and conditions near and far, and that understanding should be evident in your final reflection.

This reflection provides an opportunity to identify and discuss larger global themes and issues as they are reflected in the three events you have attended. It is important here to offer some specifics about each event, and what questions or issues it addressed, as well as articulating how the three are related in terms of the nature of the problems or concerns they dealt with. You may want to consider how these specific problems or issues reveal larger, more systemic and global relationships, and also how they show us the connection between local and global contexts and conditions.

Global Issue-oriented Event 1

In choosing events for this requirement, you should focus on contexts and issues that are of interest to you, that will help you to understand your own position and goals in relation to larger world issues and the relationship between local, regional, national and global contexts. In preparation for writing a longer reflection that connects these 3 experiences, please document the details of the event as well as the key questions and issues addressed, and any comments or reactions you will wish to draw on in writing that reflection.

Global Issue-oriented Event 2

In choosing events for this requirement, you should focus on contexts and issues that are of interest to you, that will help you to understand your own position and goals in relation to larger world issues and the relationship between local, regional, national and global contexts. In preparation for writing a longer reflection that connects these 3 experiences, please document the details of the event as well as the key questions and issues addressed, and any comments or reactions you will wish to draw on in writing that reflection.

Global Issue-oriented Event 3

In choosing events for this requirement, you should focus on contexts and issues that are of interest to you, that will help you to understand your own position and goals in relation to larger world issues and the relationship between local, regional, national and global contexts. In preparation for writing a longer reflection that connects these 3 experiences, please document the details fo the event as well as the key questions and issues addressed, and any comments or reactions you will wish to draw on in writing that reflection.