I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Global Studies Capstone
2. Course Prefix & Number:
GLST 2401
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits - Variable: 1-3
Lecture Hours: 1
4. Course Description:
This course serves as the culminating academic experience for the Global Studies Certificate. Students expand, sharpen, and coordinate their comprehension by reviewing and discussing selected advanced readings in the field of Global Studies. Interdisciplinary perspectives and contemporary problems will be stressed. Students will be expected to draw upon and synthesize the knowledge they have acquired from their global experience. In addition, students in the capstone course will complete a research project using primary-source material. This research project will serve as the capstone experience project required of all students completing the Global Studies Certificate. These projects should address the principal factual data, historical events, problems, and ongoing challenges and concerns relevant to the subject selected. Students are also required to prepare and present a portfolio of their experience and research to CLC faculty, staff, students, friends, and family.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Next Gen Reading |
Score: |
237 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
GLST 2401 - Global Studies Capstone
All Course(s) from the following...
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| GLST 1401 | Introduction to Global Studies | 3 cr. |
7. Other Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
9. Co-requisite Courses:
GLST 2401 - Global Studies Capstone
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
GLST 201 Global Studies Capstone, Riverland Community College, 1 credit
GLST 495: Senior Seminar in Global Studies, SCSU, 3 credits
Global Studies 201 – Global Studies Capstone, Ridgewater, 1 credit
3. Prior Learning - the following prior learning methods are acceptable for this course:
- Written
- Demonstration
- Portfolio
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Global Studies Certificate
2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:
Goal 8 – Global Perspective
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
Liberal Arts Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Communicate ideas to connect and collaborate across boundaries. |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Investigate the world to produce new global knowledge. |
| Discuss/compare characteristics of diverse cultures and environments |
Recognize and weigh perspectives to apply cross-cultural understanding. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Develop informed judgments about global issues (MnTC Goal 8);
- Demonstrate critical awareness that problem-solving in the global community requires the integration of a variety of perspectives (MnTC Goal 8);
- Integrate international knowledge, intercultural skills, and personal growth achieved during global experience with previous and current academic work by completing a significant capstone project (MnTC Goal 8);
- Discuss their intercultural competencies, and knowledge gained about peoples, ethnic groups, nations, academic areas of interest, regions of the world, and global or international topics (MnTC Goal 8);
- Demonstrate how their understandings of the complexities of international political economic, social, and cultural issues, as well as their perceptions of their own identity (as a member of an ethnic group or citizen of their own country and even as a budding “global citizen” have been transformed (MnTC Goal 8); and
- Present results of significant research, critical thinking, and the evidence for and against an interesting claim or observation of their devising that reflects their personal, professional, and international interests (MnTC Goal 8).
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Introduction and orientation
- Syllabus
- Types of acceptable projects
- Domestic intercultural immersion experience
- Travel study experience
- Cultural and historical learning experience
- Capstone project requirements
- Field research and service learning
- Diversity of community and cultures
- Civic identity and commitment
- Civic communication
- Civic action and reflection
- Civic context and structures
- Universal human rights
- Prior knowledge assessment
- Declaration of Universal Human Rights
- Current global issues
- Project milestones and checkpoints
- Thesis plan
- Weekly progress
- Final presentation
- Project debrief/reflection