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CATEGORY 8: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

(requires one course, 3 or more credits)

Goal: To increase students' understanding of the growing interdependence of nations and peoples and develop their ability to apply a comparative perspective to cross-cultural social, economic and political experiences.

Student Competencies:

Students will be able to

• practice the critical thinking skills associated with possessing a global perspective, including ability to gather and apply factual information, skill at identifying alternative perceptions, recognition and articulation of value assumptions, analysis of connections between facts and assumptions, etc.
• describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
• demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.
• analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution.
• understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.

Courses which satisfy this category include

ANTH 1110: Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)

BUAD 3750*: International Business (3 credits)

CHIN 1111: Elementary Chinese I (4 credits)

CHIN 1112: Elementary Chinese II (4 credits)

ENGL 2360: English Literature I (3 credits)

ENGL 2365: English Literature II (3 credits)

ENGL 2370: World Literature I (3 credits)

ENGL 2375: World Literature II (3 credits)

ENGL 2410: Mythology, Legends, and Folktales (3 credits)

GEOG 1400: World Regional Geography (3 credits)

GEOG 2200: Introduction to Human Geography (3 credits)

GEOG 3820*: Geography of East Asia (3 credits)

GER 1111: Elementary German I (4 credits)

GER 1112: Elementary German II (4 credits)

GER 2211: Intermediate German I (3 credits)

GER 2212: Intermediate German II (3 credits)

GER 3311*: Conversation and Composition (3 credits)

GER 3312*: Introduction to the Study of German Culture and Literature (3 credits)

HST 1304: World History I, Prehistory-1500 (3 credits)

HST 1305: World History II, 1500-Present (3 credits)

HST 2500: Canada (3 credits)

HST 2580: Russia (3 credits)

HST 2660: Women and History (3 credits)

HST 3309*: World Religions (3 credits)

HST 3409*: Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)

HST 3419*: China (3 credits)

HUM 2100: European Culture and Civilization (3 credits)

HUM 2130: Non-Western Cultures and Civilization (3 credits)

HUM 2140: The African-American Experience: 1492 to the Present (3 credits)

INST 2207: First Nations of Canada (3 credits)

INTL 1160: Focus on. . . (1 credit)

INTL 2100: Instructed International Tour (1-3 credits)

INTL 2200: International Study Experience: Humanities (1-3 credits)

INTL 2300: Comparative International Study Project (1-3 credits)

INTL 2400: International Study Experience: Social Science (1-3 credits)

MASC 2190: International Communication (3 credits)

MUS 3110*: World Music (2 credits)

OJIB 1111: Elementary Ojibwe I (4 credits)

OJIB 1112: Elementary Ojibwe II (4 credits)

OJIB 2211: Intermediate Ojibwe I (4 credits)

OJIB 2212: Intermediate Ojibwe II (4 credits)

OJIB 3311*: Advanced Ojibwe I (4 credits)

OJIB 3312*: Advanced Ojibwe II (4 credits)

PHIL 3310*: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (3 credits)

PHIL 3360*: Asian Philosophy (3 credits)

PHIL 3390*: Marxist Philosophy (3 credits)

POL 1300: Introduction to International Relations (3 credits)

POL 1400: Introduction to Comparative Politics (3 credits)

PSY 3210*: Death and Culture (3 credits)

REL 2000: Religion in the Modern World (3 credits)

SOC 1105: Contemporary Social Problems (3 credits)

SOWK 2110: Intercultural Communication (3 credits)

SPAN 1111: Elementary Spanish I (4 credits)

SPAN 1112: Elementary Spanish II (4 credits)

SPAN 2211: Intermediate Spanish I (3 credits)

SPAN 2212: Intermediate Spanish II (3 credits)

SPAN 3311*: Composition and Conversation (3 credits)

SPAN 3312*: Advanced Readings and Conversation (3 credits)

VSAR 2551: Art History Survey I (4 credits)

VSAR 2552: Art History Survey II (4 credits)

OTHERS:

*This course will satisfy Liberal Education at BSU, but does not qualify for inclusion in the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum as currently interpreted by MnSCU, and may not be accepted as a Liberal Education course at other MnSCU institutions or the University of Minnesota.