GCS Curriculum
The Honors Global Citizen Scholars Program (GCS) utilizes interdisciplinary approaches to explore and confront the most critical challenges of our globalized age. In doing so, it prepares students for personal and professional lives that make positive impacts both in their communities and in our rapidly changing global society. Through strategic institutional, community, and international partnerships as well as innovative academic, experiential, and co-curricular programming, students become effective global citizens who engage meaningfully and effectively with various people, places, events, challenges, and opportunities. The GCS curriculum is embedded in an 18-credit minor.
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CHNG 1008 (3 credits)
Provides structured explorations of places in our region to gain understanding of the complex challenges facing our communities, to recognize the need for changemaking efforts, and to network with local leaders already involved in changemaking. -
UHON 1418 (3 credits)
Provides an introduction to human rights and global citizenship for in the Honors Global Citizen Scholars program. The course provides an overview of the historical development of human rights and basic ethical theory, and introduces the concepts of global awareness, global responsibility, and global participation. Sample Syllabus. -
UHON 2418 (3 credits)
Allows students to see an international perspective on human rights issues as they continue to develop the mindset and skills of a Global Citizen. This is a four-week summer course that includes a study-abroad component. -
UHON 3418 (3 credits)
Serves as a conclusion of the core sequence on Human Rights and Global Citizenship in the Honors Global Citizen Scholars program. Engages more deeply with current human rights issues, expands understanding of the practices of global citizenship, and further articulates identity as a global citizen. -
Other (6 credits)
Required three-credit honors elective course (UHON 3908 Internship, UHON 4808 Study Abroad, UHON 4825 Washington Center, or Honors 4958 Special Topics) and required three-credit honors capstone project course.