Glenside-based Global Connections Experiences
Students can participate in Glenside-based courses that have an experiential component in order to fulfill the Global Connections Experience. If a student participates in a course-based experience, he or she are is expected to complete 15 additional experiential hours either in the same community as the course-based experience or in a context or organization that addresses the same issue or topic the student is exploring. Some of the courses currently available that include this experiential component include:
CJ 325: Inside/Outside Program
A dozen "outside" students from Arcadia join a similar number of inmates ("inside" students) in a weekly criminal justice seminar held in a Philadelphia County prison, part of a national network of such courses. Enrollment is limited to those who will be juniors and seniors in Fall 2009 and is by permission only from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. Interested students must contact Dr. John Noakes for an application form. Applications are due by March 30, 2009. Please note that tudents can have this course serve as a Global Connections Intellectual Practice course or as the foundation for a Global Connections Experience, but not both.
SP 270: Hispanic Experience in Philadelphia
Prerequisite: Students must have had at least 1 semester of college Spanish prior to taking this course.
The purpose of Spanish 270 is to utilize Spanish learned in a classroom in a practical setting, the Latino community. Students will hone their language skills while simultaneously learning about the Hispanic community in Philadelphia. A principal component of the course is two hours per week teaching elderly immigrants English, in conjunction with Project Shine, a service learning program based at Temple University. With Project Shine, students provide literacy and citizenship tutoring to elderly immigrants and refugees at senior centers and residencies, community centers, cultural associations and churches across the city. In the classroom, students will combine their practical experience with their previous knowledge of literature, history, and linguistics.
SO 207: Introduction to Social Welfare and Community
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the synergy of governmental entities and organizations that fund and provide social services in the United States, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. The course includes 30 hours of community service. The course includes an overview of how social problems and social needs have been regarded in past eras and examines various historical responses to social problems. It also compares how social problems and needs are regarded in the United States in comparison to how they are regarded in a sample of developing countries.
Individualized Experience
It is also possible to design an individualized Global Connections Experience in consultation with the Director of Global Connections. The University is in the process of designing opportunities that combine short-term study away with a local or online sustained experience.
GCR 101: Global Connections Reflection
(2 credits, fall, spring) This course is the companion course to the Global Connections Experience. This is a key Curricular Experience in Arcadia’s Undergraduate Curriculum. All students complete this course while engaging in an experience in a cultural context different from the one in which they grew up (locally, nationally or internationally). This course assists students in reflecting on the interconnections, interdependence, and inequality they encounter during the experience in working to understand the world and their place in it. Co-requisites: While taking this course, students must be involved in an approved Global Connections Experience. There are no prerequisites.
