Eligibility & Requirements
- First-year students are admitted for the Fall semester of each year. Transfer students with less than 24 credit hours will also be considered
- Open to all majors
- Must have submitted an on-campus housing application.
- Application Deadline: June 1, 2023
- Applications are accepted until September 1, 2023
Learning Community
- B-GLOBAL is a two-year learning community that integrates curricular and co-curricular programming in an intentional way to promote the acquisition of global competence skills.
- Participants will live near other first-year students in a themed housing community and participate in the First-Year Experience activities in the University College (UC) or the Square
- The activities incorporate targeted advising services and other resources to ensure success.
- Participants will take an engaging freshman experience course/lab to help them meet other B-GLOBAL participants, network with engaging speakers, and take field trips. This course is zero credit and at no cost.
Associated Classes
- B-GLOBAL students are encouraged to take at least one African American Studies (AFAM) designated class and two “B-GLOBAL” designated course options, which include foreign languages.
- All B-GLOBAL and AFAM courses fit within the University’s core curriculum or an academic major. For example, many courses fit within the “Global Awareness” and the “Language, Philosophy, and Culture” areas of the core curriculum, which apply to all majors.
- B-Global students receive additional advising support to ensure all courses meet their degree requirements.
Program Highlights
- Student, Staff & Faculty Mentorship
- Living Learning Community
- Common Reading
- Learn a New Language
- Study Abroad
- Field Trips and Cultural Exchanges
- Genealogy Workshop
- International Movie Nights
- Global Reading Experience
- Develop an ePortfolio to Demonstrate Learning
- Earn a Global Leader Certificate/Badges
- CALENDAR OF EVENTS
African American Studies Course Options
- AFAM 1301 Race, Class, and Gender in America
- ARTS 2328 African American Art
- CRIJ 3393Minorities and the Criminal Justice System
- DRAM 2322 African American Theatre II
- ENGL 3306 Studies in African-Amer Lit
- ENGL 3305 Survey of African-American Literature
- ENGL 3306 Studies in African-American Literature
- HDFM 2355 Human Development: Life Span
- HIST 1301 United States History I
- HIST 1302 United States History II
- HIST 2381 African-American History
- HIST 2381 African-American History
- HIST 3350 American Chattel Slavery
- HIST 3375 African Diaspora
- HIST 4381 African-American Hist to 1876
- HIST 4382 African-Amer Hist Since 1876
- HUMA 1305 Mexican-American Culture
- HUMA1301 Introduction to Humanities
- MUSC 2333 Afro-American Music
- MUSC 2333 Afro-American Music
- PHIL 2306 Ethics
- POSC 2305 American Government
- POSC 2306 Texas Government
- POSC 2321 Blacks and the American Political System
- POSC 3341 Gandhi and King
- POSC 3355 African Politics
- POSC 4324 Race, Gender and Public Policy
- SOCG 2302 Black Families
- SOCG 2319 Sociology of Minorities
- SPAN 1302 Elementary Spanish II
B-Global Course Options
- AGRI 1330 Land Grant System and Global Food Security
- AGRI 2322 Food Distribution Systems
- BIOL 3402 Human Physiology and Anatomy
- BIOL 3403 General Microbiology
- CHEM 1306 Introductory Chemistry I
- CHIN 1301 Beginning Chinese I
- CHIN1302 Beginning Chinese II
- COMM 3364 Nonverbal Communication
- COMM 3365 Gender Communication
- CRIJ 2328 Police Systems and Practices
- CRIJ 2345 Introduction to Terrorism
- CUIN 3300 Educational Foundations
- ELEG 3303 Physical Principles of Solid-State Devices
- ELEG 4300 Communication Theory
- ENGL 1302 Freshman Composition II
- ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing
- ENGL 2314 Advanced Composition
- ENGL 2324 Introduction to African Literature
- ENGL 2331 Survey of World Literature
- HIST 2321 World Civilizations I
- HIST 2322 World Civilizations II
- HIST 3318 Medieval Europe
- HIST 3370 Pre-Colonial Africa
- HIST 3371 Post-Colonial African History
- HIST 4344 ST/Global Piracy
- HLTH 1304 Personal Health and Wellness
- HUMA 1301 Introduction to Humanities
- HUMA 1305 Survey of Mexican-American Culture
- KINE 3302 Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology
- KINE 3365 Motor Learning and Control
- MUSC 2334 Survey of World Music
- NURS 3338 Nursing without Borders: Global Health
- NURS 4318 Adult Health Nursing II
- PHSC 1315 Physical Science
- PHIL 3308: Global Social Justice and Ethics
- PHIL 2309: Ethics of Cybersecurity
- PHIL 3306: Bioethics
- PHYS 1302 General Physics II
- POSC 2305 American Government
- POSC 2350 Global Issues
- POSC 2353 Latin American and Caribbean Politics
- SOCG 2319 Sociology of Minorities
- SOCG 1306 Social Problems
- SPAN 1302 Elementary Spanish II
- SPAN 2321 Spanish Composition
Benefits of Participation
Self-Awareness
Ability to identify own cultural rules and biases and begin to question those rules or biases based on a growing global understanding.
Global Awareness
Ability to describe important issues that impact local and international communities and begin to connect his or her local actions to global contexts.
Cultural Knowledge
Ability to demonstrate comparative understanding of another culture’ s history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
Social Responsibility
Take informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in global systems by using interdisciplinary perspectives, knowledge, and skills.