Curriculum Committee 2015-2016 Summit Course Form
Department Chairs and Program Directors: Please complete this form and email it to the chair of the CC subcommittee (Charlotte
Artese: cartese@agnesscott.edu) by JUNE 1 in order to have an approved 2015-2016 course listed as a Summit course.
Chair or Director:
Course number and title:
Department or Program:
1. Check ONLY one:
Leadership Skills Across the
Liberal Arts
 Activities designed to develop skills in
one of the areas listed below must
constitute at least 20% of the graded
work. If two or more of these skills are
addressed in a course, at least 10% of the
graded work must be devoted to each
skill: teamwork, public speaking,
digital literacy.
 Development of the relevant skill(s)
must be an explicit part of the pedagogy
of the course, not merely tacit.
Leadership Studies Across the
Liberal Arts
 The central focus of the course must be
leadership. (E.g., Women & Leadership,
Adaptive Leadership, Emotionally
Intelligent Leadership, Philosophical
Approaches to Leadership, Social
Movements, Literature and Leadership,
Ethics & Leadership, Leadership in the
Sciences, etc.)
Global Learning Elective
(Criteria listed below.)
 Global Learning Across the
Liberal Arts (GLALA)
 Area studies course
 Global practicum course
 Global awareness (2-4 credits)
 Foreign language course above the
intermediate level
Explain how the course fits the category checked above.
2. If the course is a Leadership Skills or Global Learning Elective course that falls within a Summit
Intellectual Breadth Category, check which category. (See full statement of breadth requirement
below.)
Summit in Arts and Humanities
 Practice or interpret creative expression
or probe fundamental questions of value
and meaning
Summit in STEM
 Interpret quantitative information or
demonstrate the methods of inquiry
appropriate for investigating the natural
world
Summit in Social Sciences
 Analyze human behavior or social
relations
Explain how the course satisfies the criteria for the breadth category checked above.
3. If the course is a Global Learning Elective that falls within a Summit Intellectual Breadth category
AND meets the criteria for a Global Social and Cultural Analysis course, check this box.
Global Social/Cultural Analysis
 a Global Learning Elective whose
central focus is the critical examination
of relationships, interactions and
outcomes among dominant and
marginalized cultures, subcultures or
groups
Explain how the Global Learning Elective/breadth course satisfies the criteria for Global Social and Cultural Analysis
courses.
Global Learning Electives Criteria
GLALA
50% of a course’s content must satisfy at least one of the following 3 criteria. All 50% need not satisfy the same criterion.
Contact: courses that address movement, comparison, or connection of people, information, commodities, ideas,
identities, or culture (e.g., arts, religion, language, technology, etc.) across or transcending national borders.
Power: courses that address how structures or institutions exercise power, or are resisted, in ways that cross, span or
transcend national borders.
Systems: courses that address social, biological, physical, conceptual, or ecological systems that cross, span or transcend
national borders.
Area Studies Courses: Area studies courses that count for the Global Elective are those that include in-depth examination of
some aspect of a particular country or region (for example: history, music, literature, art, culture, religion, geography, etc.).
Foreign language course above the intermediate level: The intermediate level of a foreign language is Chinese 202; French 202;
German 202; Japanese 202; Latin 202; Spanish 202; Greek, two semesters at the 200-level; or other approved languages taken
elsewhere.
Global practicum courses: Global practicum courses will provide students with opportunities to engage with local organizations
that address global issues (as defined in GLALA criteria). Students will apply knowledge and theory from the course to complete a
specific applied project to meet a need identified by the organization. At least 25% of the course meetings will be dedicated to the
practicum project.
Students may request that senior capstone projects and mentored research count as global electives - or that study abroad,
internships, and mentored research count as global experiences - by submitting an essay to the Summit Advisory Group that
describes the experience and explains how it meets the relevant criteria.
Summit Breadth Requirement
3 global electives or leadership skills courses, with at least one leadership skills course and at least one Global Social and Cultural
Analysis course, one from each of three breadth categories:
 Summit in the Arts and Humanities [4 credits]
 Summit in STEM [4 credits]
 Summit in the Social Sciences [4 credits]
Leadership Development & Global Learning Specializations
Leadership Development
Global Learning
LDR 200 [4 credits]
GLALA [4 credits]
Leadership Studies [4 credits]
Global elective [2-4 credits]
Leadership practicum
Global experience
[variable credits]
2 Leadership Development
workshops
Team Global Challenge
Team Global Challenge