Sierra Nevada College
Global Scholars Program
TO:
All Sierra Nevada Students
FROM:
Richard S. Normington – Business Department Chair
RE:
You can be more than just an SNC student…You can be a Global Scholar!
Have you ever wanted to study or travel abroad?
Learn about other cultures, religions, languages, or
people? Complete a service-learning project? Make
your degree stand out from the other graduates? If so,
the GLOBAL SCHOLAR PROGRAM is for you!
The goal of the Global Scholar program is to create
global citizens who are “culturally sensitive and politically, socially, and intellectually motivated and engaged” (CISLA).
The program opens up opportunities for individual growth; recognizes the increasingly diversified country and world in
which we live; and gives students the opportunity to study, live, and work abroad.
In January 2009, SNC approved a unique interdisciplinary program in which you can integrate an international studies
component into any major offered by SNC. Do you want to learn about sustainable community-based resource
management around the game parks of South Africa, work on digital media campaigns for the World Cup, study the
music of West Africa or the history of Ankor Wat in Cambodia or Shakespeare’s sonnets and life in England, or have the
opportunity to care for animals orphaned at the hands of poachers? If so, the GLOBAL SCHOLAR program is the way
to do it all.
To earn the Global Scholar designation, you will need to complete a prescribed set of courses totaling at least 18
credits. You will also have to complete a senior project (thesis, show, major capstone, etc.) that integrates your
international studies with your major. Ideally, you will intern, travel, or study abroad for at least three weeks allowing
you to integrate this learning experience into your senior project.
The Global Scholar program is open to all SNC students who have an interest in learning more about the increasingly
globalized world in which they live. To ensure everyone that is interested has the opportunity to participate, you will be
asked to formally apply to the program and indicate how you plan to link this Global Scholar studies with your major.
The application for the Program is attached. Ideally, students will begin thinking about adding a Global Scholar
component to their major in their freshmen/sophomore years and would begin taking the required courses early in their
junior year.
An introductory briefing on the Global Scholar Program will be held on March 30 at 6:30 pm in Patterson Hall. If you
have any questions before then, please contact Global Scholar Program Chair Mary Lewellen
(mlewellen@sierranevada.edu or mllafrica@aol.com) or David Astles (dastles@sierranevada.edu).
So take a look, ask questions, and make your degree stand out from the other graduates…become a Global Scholar!
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GLOBAL SCHOLAR COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students declaring their intention to pursue the Global Scholar’s certification must complete an application (see
attachment), including a proposed course plan, in consultation with their academic major advisor and the Global
Scholar program chair.
Course Plan requirements
1. Students must complete the following required courses:
i.
INTL 350 – Foreign Policy, or INTB 365 – Foreign Affairs
ii.
INTB 480 – Global Issues (requires upper division standing)
iii.
Any Regional Study course (INTL 480-486)
iv.
Any 3 credit foreign travel, study abroad, or internship experience or, International Travel Abroad
Research (INTL 381) or Independent Research in International Studies (INTL 401)
2. In addition, students must complete a minimum of six credits from the following list (or from any other Art,
Humanities, or Business course with an international or multi-cultural emphasis - subject to Program Chair and
Major Advisor approval).
i.
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iii.
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vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.
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xii.
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ARTH 110 – World Art
ARTH 327 – Pre-Columbian Art Meso-America
BIOL 420 – Tropical Field Biology (subject to prerequisites)
ENGL 330 – Multicultural Literature
ENGL 381 – Language, Thought and Culture
ENGL 400 – Universal Themes in Literature
ENGL 455 – Masterpieces of World Literature
HIST 322 – History of the Third World
HIST 370 – African Civilization
HUMN 437 – World Indigenous Peoples
Any INTB or INTL course
MUSC 110 – Survey of World Music
PHIL 210 – Exploring World Religions
PSYC 340 – Social Psychology
Any Foreign Language or Introduction to Foreign Languages and Culture
3. Senior Project – Students must complete a senior project as part of their normal major or capstone course
requirement and this project must include an international or “global” element as approved by both their senior
project advisor (or capstone instructor) and the International Studies program chair.
4. NOTE: At least half of the courses must be upper division courses and must be taken from at least two different
disciplines. Courses applied to the Global Scholars program may not be counted as part of another academic
major or minor.
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Application for Global Scholar Program
Name: _______________________________________
Date:____________________
Student ID:____________________________________
Major:___________________
Class Standing (Circle 1): FR SO JR SR
Cumulative GPA:_________________
Rationale (Briefly describe how you plan to link your global scholar studies with your major concentration):
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Course Plan (Identify the elective Global Studies courses you plan on taking and why you think they will enhance
the value of your major concentration:
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Student Name (Printed)
______________________________________
Student Signature
Approval
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Major Advisor
______________________________________
Global Scholar Program Chair
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