Broadening Global Learning Opportunities Building Academic Leaders (B-GLOBAL) is a two-year learning community designed to improve the global competencies of first-year students entering with less than 24 academic credits. The program seeks to broaden the undergraduate experience by implementing globally-focused curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that foster self-awareness, global awareness, cultural knowledge, and social responsibility.
Global competence is frequently used to describe a set of skills, values, and behaviors that allow a person to engage with other cultures appropriately, understand significant world issues or events and respond to them with appropriate action. Today’s leaders must be socially responsible agents of change in whatever field they enter. By incorporating globally focused experiences into the undergraduate curriculum, B-GLOBAL will help students use their knowledge and understanding of the world to make connections across cultures, ideas, and peoples to develop innovative solutions to pressing problems.
Key Areas of the Program
- Selected core curriculum or language courses
- A common reading experience
- Participating in a living-learning community during the first year
- Globally-focused programs, opportunities, festivals, field trips, or contests
- A capstone project focusing on improving social responsibility, leading to the attainment of a Global Leadership Certificate
- Faculty and staff development