Global Engagement Initiative

The Global Engagement Initiative has helped faculty to develop or revise many courses. While our goal is to thread global issues across the curriculum, the GEI has also itself developed a few course addressing particular needs in the curriculum. Chief among those are: 

Special GEI-sponsored courses (2016-17):

CCST 208 International Coffee and News Have you just returned from Asia, Africa, Europe, or South America? This course is an excellent way to keep in touch with the culture (and, when appropriate, the language) you left behind. Relying on magazines and newspapers around the world, students will discuss common topics and themes representing a wide array of regions. You may choose to read the press in the local language, or read English-language media about your region, meeting once each week for conversational exchange. (Language of conversation is English.) Prerequisite: Students must have participated in an off-campus study program (Carleton or non-Carleton). 2 credits; S/CR/NC; HI, IS; Fall, Winter, Spring

CCST 270 Creative Travel Writing Workshop Travelers write. Whether it be in the form of postcards, text messages, blogs, or articles, writing serves to anchor memory and process difference, making foreign experience understandable to us and accessible to others. While examining key examples of the genre, you will draw on your experiences off-campus for your own work. Student essays will be critiqued in a workshop setting, and all work will be revised before final submission. Some use of blended media is also possible. Prerequisite: Students must have participated in an off-campus study program (Carleton or non-Carleton). 6 credits; S/CR/NC; ARP, WR2; Winter

IDSC 398 Team-Based Global Issues Research Seminar How can we understand a refugee crisis in Europe, the health and environmental effects of a sulfide-ore mine in Minnesota, or destruction of archeological sites in the Middle East? Complex topics like these require multiple specialists working across disciplines. IDSC 398 invites students with advanced (typically Comps-level) skills to develop a team-based project dealing with a regional, national, or international issue that has global significance. Projects are shaped in consultation with the seminar leaders, but are largely independent. Typically separate from departmental Comps. Normally done over three consecutive terms starting in the Fall. 2 credits per term; S/CR/NC; NE, IS; Fall, Winter, Spring