One-Book CGCC 2008, Elizabeth Royte's Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

Spring 2008 See Your World Events

The Faculty Development Team has chosen SEE Your World as the college theme. Through this theme, we want to engage students and the college community in exploration of the following questions:

What do we need to know about the world today?
What does it mean to be a citizen in a global sense?
And how should we act in the face of large unsolved global problems?

SEE Your World stands for:

Social
Hunger, poverty, education, disease and health, HIV/Aids, children's health, maternal health, gender equality, war and peace

Environmental
Forests, water quality, sanitation, water availability, bio-diversity, carbon-dioxide emissions, energy use, waste, biotechnology, agriculture, land

Economic
Employment, trade issues, debt, market-access, manufacturing, poverty

Through the SEE Your World theme, the learning outcomes we hope to help students achieve are the following:

• Understand and appreciate the complex and diverse identities around the world
• Acquire interdisciplinary knowledge of the world's social, environmental and economic problems
• Develop a heightened sense of global interconnections and interdependence
• Explore the historical legacies that have created the dynamics and tensions in the world
• Learn how to engage in deliberative dialog about global issues, even when there might be a clash of views
• Engage in actions to sustain and preserve communities and the environment for future generations

These areas of focus are drawn from Kevin Hovland of AAC&U and author of Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility and from Caryn McTighe Musil of AAC&U and author of Assessing Global Learning: Matching Good Intentions with Good Practice.