Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy falls under the Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship Capacity.

Our world is interlinked socially, economically, culturally, and politically. An ability to orient ourselves when outside our cultural comfort zones (abroad, when speaking a different language, in an unfamiliar neighborhood of Boston, for example) and to work with sensitivity with people from different backgrounds is necessary to success in the workplace and to living a productive, meaningful life.

Courses in this area will have at least one of the first two following learning outcomes, and may also have the third learning outcome.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate, through comparative reflection or analysis, an understanding of global diversity as expressed in at least two different languages, cultures, religions, political systems, or societies.
  2. Students will demonstrate detailed understanding of at least two cultural contexts through language or culture study at BU, participation in a language or culture living-learning community at BU, or study abroad. This will involve reflection and cultivating diverse approaches to linguistic, cultural, religious, political, social, and/or historic factors that have helped produce these cultural contexts.
  3. Students will demonstrate detailed understanding of the ways in which historical and systemic bases of social and racial inequities occur in the world today. This may include awareness of systems of racial inequity (such as in education, employment, health, housing, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the law), the social consequences of such inequities, and antiracist or other activism aimed at creating a more just and equitable society.

Courses

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