The new mini-grant to globalize your courses…
The Global+ (G+) Boldon Course Development Fund program provides funding to support student engagement in the classroom with global issues, perspectives and language. This fund will prioritize activities that promote and enhance global competencies for students in courses. The purpose of the program is to incentivize adding an engaged global learning component into your course.
Global+ Objectives:
- Integration of themes that connect international studies into disciplinary topics (a significant cross-cultural or comparative approach to understanding global issues trends)
- Integration of foreign languages into disciplinary topics (increase exposure and opportunities to engage in foreign languages) [does not have to require language fluency]
- Builds global competencies in students
GLOBAL+ Objectives:
- Integration of themes that incorporate international studies into disciplinary topics: a significant cross-cultural or comparative approach to understanding global issues
- Integration of foreign languages into disciplinary topics: increase exposure and opportunities to engage in foreign languages (does not have to require language fluency by instructor or students)
- Embedding curriculum and instruction within courses/programs to build global competencies in students
Global Competency:
Global Competency is “Global competence is the capacity to understand and appreciate local and global issues, multiple perspectives and world views and interact appropriately and effectively with people from different cultures and identities”
Student Learning Outcomes:
• Think globally: have an increased knowledge of their relationship to the world; think about issues from a global perspective; gain an appreciation for other world cultures, viewpoints, and perspectives.
• Communicate effectively: improve their foreign language skills and their ability to communicate with people across cultural and language divides.
• Contribute responsibly: use their global knowledge to interact and build relationships with people from other cultures; demonstrate respect, open-mindedness, understanding and flexibility in behavior and thinking; help others to embrace multiple perspectives.
Global+ Course Development Fund Eligibility
- MC faculty/departments/divisions on campus wishing to embed global programming/opportunities into classes (that builds global competencies and achieves Global+ Objectives)
Award Amounts: Up to $500
All recipients will receive up to $500 to cover the costs associated with building in a global component into your course. Each budget request will be considered for its relevance and necessity to support the goals of the proposed project.
*4 grants offered per year*
Acceptable uses of funds (not limited to these):
- Books, and instructional materials
- Fees for global/language-based experiential components (e.g. cultural workshops, project-based learning, etc)
- Guest Speaker honorarium
- Movie licensing fee
- Registration for professional development opportunities directly related to the course project
- Printing/purchasing of activity materials
- Professional development training fee (to support course content)
Selection Process:
Applications may be submitted to the Center for Global Engagement.
Recipients of Global+ Boldon Fund are required to submit
1) A final report at the end of the semester/term of the award activity,
2) A program evaluation (and submit results to the CGE)
**Subject to availability of funds allocated for each year of the grant
Global Engagement Samples
Around the World in 50 Minutes: Around the World in 50 minutes took FYS 110 students around the world participating in exciting and competitive challenges related to language, cultural knowledge and travel skills to build global competency and explore the world. FYS class teams competed against each other for the chance to win a class prize. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Celebrate travel & culture
- Introduce education abroad to students
- Build global competency by exploring elements of culture, cultural knowledge & travel. Expose students to intercultural experiences that are common to all who visit another culture.
Global+ Classroom Speaker: Ms. Mona Haydar spoke in WRC 370 classes. Ms. Haydar is an activist, poet, and musician who speaks on issues relating to Islam, gender, feminism, Arabic culture, art, Islamophobia and being part of a diaspora community.
Global+ First Year Seminar Pilot Program: This pilot program took 7 sections of the Maryville College first year seminar course and focused on a Citizenship, Globalization, and Civic Engagement/Action theme. The Global+ Exploration fund provided resources for the end of semester celebration.
Students began the semester with CREDO content about Citizenship, Globalization, and Civic Engagement/Action. Students read “Seedfolks,” by Paul Fleischman, as part of the citizenship thread. The novella is about a multicultural community in Cleveland, Ohio. Students had focus assignments for the reading – community, stereotypes/generalizations, and civic engagement – for participation in jigsaw discussions, and they researched 8 countries of the immigrant characters. Research partners shared charts with information about Government, Geography, Language(s), Religion, Education, and Food. The reading, discussions, and research provided a cross-cultural look at human communities. Students completed service projects with various agencies that serve marginalized communities. The service projects are intended to provide experience with agencies or organizations that are engaged in breaking down barriers common across cultural differences. The celebration was a time for students to share the following about their experiences:
What agency or program did your group serve?
What is their mission?
What did you do?
What did you enjoy? What surprised you?
What are your takeaways about communities, citizenship, and/or civic engagement?
Global+ Movie Series: Global Movie Nights introduced international cinema to the Maryville College campus. (Language Classes) Two pilot international/second language films were screened to increase exposure to both different styles of filmmaking while also encouraging engagement with non-English language cinema. Following the movie screening, students had the opportunity to discuss the film either with their professor in their class or through a post-screening discussion with Center for Global Engagement staff. These opportunities encouraged students to investigate the world by highlighting cinema that exists outside of the standard Hollywood formula in terms of content and technique. They provided an opportunity for students to view cinema that provides a window into a different culture, and encourage further cultural exploration, from seeking out more international movies to connecting with local international students from these cultures to perhaps traveling to a country through a study abroad program.
Global+ Indigenous Music: The GEF program provided an honorarium for a guest speaker from an Indigenous community who is involved in music to speak to History of Music in the U.S. Class for Music Majors and US Pluralism Core students during the unit on Indigenous Music.
Global+ Training Grant: The GEF grant provided a faculty opportunity to do training in “Cultural humility, Curiosity, and Collaborativeness and Stepping Into a Future Free of Historical Trauma” The training was conducted by a culturalist and Historical Trauma Specialist, with a long career of mediating community misconduct around the world as a descendant of a long line of traditional healers from Benin Republic, West Africa. This curriculum enrich courses taught in the Behavioral Sciences (e.g., PSY 232) that include global competencies.
