MLLC 390 Global Citizenship
UMass Boston
Modern Languages, Literature & Culture
Virtual, Synchronous
16 weeks
About the Course
This course introduces global citizenship as a lens through which students examine various aspects of life in the complex, globalized world of the 21st century, explore the unique challenges of our time and the forces that shape them, and consider how they can take action to improve conditions locally and/or globally. In doing so, it follows the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which proposes global citizenship as a way of framing the exploration of global issues and challenges, with the aim of helping students develop the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary to secure a more just, peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable world. Students will learn how cultural and social identity, bias, discrimination, and inequality shape perspectives, including their own, and explore cultural diversity and the challenges of intercultural communication.
Learning Objectives
• Delivered synchronous instruction to 140 international students from over 35 countries enrolled in MLLC 390 Global Citizenship in the Dept. of Modern Languages, Literature, and Culture
• Prepare students to be social change agents and active citizens in a global society via the implementation of global citizenship principles; commitment to peace, human rights, and sustainable development
• Educate students regarding intercultural communication, cultural diversity, social identity, and globalization in its economic, political, and cultural dimensions
• Teach students the developmental process of skills and values necessary to secure a more just, peaceful, tolerant, and inclusive world
• Instruct students regarding global citizenship as a lens through which students examine various aspects of life in the complex, globalized world of the 21st century
• Promote critical-thinking and the exploration of the contextually unique challenges of our time and the subsequent considerations to improve humanitarian conditions locally and globally
• Utilize online course tools such as Zoom, Breakout Rooms, Polls, and Videos to enhance course lesson plans
Course Dates
May 2020- December 2020
Semester, Year, Course Sections
Summer 2020, Fall 2020 (3 Sections)