The Faculty Development Team has chosen SEE Your World as the collegetheme. Through this theme, we want to engage students and the collegecommunity in exploration of the following questions:

 

What do we need to know about the world today?
What does it mean to be a citizen in a global sense?
And how should we act in the face of large unsolved global problems?

SEE Your World stands for:

Social
Hunger, poverty, education, disease and health, HIV/Aids, children's health, maternal health, gender equality, war and peace

Environmental
Forests, water quality, sanitation, water availability, bio-diversity,carbon-dioxide emissions, energy use, waste, biotechnology,agriculture, land

Economic
Employment, trade issues, debt, market-access, manufacturing, poverty

Through the SEE Your World theme, the learning outcomes we hope to help students achieve are the following:

• Understand and appreciate the complex and diverse identities in local communities and around the world
• Acquire interdisciplinary knowledge of the world's social, environmental and economic problems
• Develop a heightened sense of local and global interconnections and interdependence
• Explore the historical legacies that have created the dynamics and tensions in the world
• Learn how to engage in deliberative dialog about local and global issues, even when there might be a clash of views
• Understand one’s role in a democracy as both a local and global citizen
  
• Engage in actions to sustain and preserve communities and the environment for future generations

These areas of focus are drawn from Kevin Hovland of AAC&U and author of Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility and from Caryn McTighe Musil of AAC&U and author of Assessing Global Learning: Matching Good Intentions with Good Practice

SEE Your World video