Global Awareness

The purpose of a minor in Global Awareness is to provide the students with the capacity and the inclination to place people, objects, situations and the self in the broader context of our contemporary world.

Project Zero specifies three capabilities at the heart of global awareness: global sensitivity — i.e. sensitivity to local phenomena and experiences as manifestation of broader developments in the planet; global understanding — i.e. the capacity to think in flexible and informed ways about contemporary world issues and developments; and global self — i.e. a perception of self as global actor, a situated sense of planetary belonging and membership in humanity that supplements action and prompts civic commitments.

Course Requirements

Complete twenty-one credit hours from the following:

• ARTS 275: Arts and Culture
• BIOL 102: Environmental Awareness
• BSHS 100: Introduction to Political Science
• BSHS 337: Cross-Cultural Psychology
• BUSA 330: International Business
• COMM 321: Global Media
• ECON 201: Introduction to Economics
• ENGL 307: Studies in World Literature
• HIST 105: World Civilization I
• HIST 106: World Civilization II
• HIST 130*: World Geography
• HIST 350: Making History
• REPH 102: World Religions
• REPH 205: World Philosophies
• SOCI 108: Cultural Anthropology
• SOCI 200: Global Demography
• SOCI 275: Environmental Sociology
• 386: The Wesleyan Journey
• Language Elective (Maximum of 6 Credit Hours)
• Study Abroad Elective (Maximum of 15 Credit Hours)

May choose one of the following:

• CRIM 405: Terrorism
• CRIM 410: Comparative Justice Systems
• CRIM 415: Contemporary Law Enforcement Issues