Global Citizenship

1. Key Concepts of Global Citizenship  

a. Globalization

• Definitions 
• Support and critiques 

b. Global Citizenship 

•  Definitions 
•  Competencies 
•  Support and critiques  

2. Worldviews and Intercultural understanding

a. Key concepts and definitions: 

• Worldviews and paradigms – definitions 
• Culture and intercultural definitions and models for understanding 
• Perspective-taking  
• Unlearning and reframing experience 

 b. Cultural self-awareness  

• Identifying our own cultural lenses and worldview  
• Linking behavior and judgement to cultural lenses  
• Challenging one’s worldview via perspective-taking and experience.  

c. Intercultural communication 

• Basic frameworks for understanding intercultural communication differences (e.g. high context, low context, in-between, direct, indirect)
• Identifying our own communication preferences 

 3.  Global Issues and Institutions: Knowledge to Action  

a. Introduction to select global issues

b. Critical perspectives on the role and purpose of international governmental and non governmental organizations (i.e. Foundations, UN, UNESCO, Red Cross, etc.) 

 c. Local/global relationship 

• Identifying organizational positions 
• Linking local action to global issues 

 d. Taking action 

• Localizing global citizenship to your context 
• Planning for action  
• Critical perspectives (for example performative global citizenship; volunteerism and voluntourism; soft vs critical global citizenship)   

 4. Sustainability global citizenship 

a. Definitions 

b. Sustainability Frameworks: mainstream and critical (e.g. anthropological, Indigenous, UN sustainable development goals)  

c. Selected topics in sustainability 

• Environmental 
• Economic 
• Social (cultural) 
• Political