Global Learning Experience

The Honors co-curriculum requirements focus on global learning and leadership opportunities such as faculty-led Honors trips and place-based projects that aim to foster intercultural knowledge, cultural humility, social responsibility, and global interconnectivity.

The Global Learning Experience is an immersive educational experience that exposes students to another culture in order to allow for a meaningful engagement with diverse others and critical analysis of complex global challenges. Honors students are encouraged to participate in the co-curricular trips that the Honors Program offers or any DUC short-term faculty led, study abroad program. Campus Ministry trips that have a significant multicultural component will also be accepted. We do not accept experiences that are limited to students traveling on their own with family members or friends.

If you would like to propose a Global Learning Experience, please speak with the Honors Program Director at least four weeks prior to the planned trip.

1. Experiences should be a minimum of four days and involve an immersive and continuous experience.
2. Can be verified with documentation from a third-party facilitator and/or accepted with advanced approval by the Honors Program Director.
3. Experiences should entail opportunities that lead to
   1. Intercultural Knowledge: The student will identify and connect two or more cultures, demonstrating respectful interaction with varied worldviews
   2. Global Interconnectivity: An articulation of one’s role as a global citizen and recognition of diverse and potentially conflicting positions vis-à-vis complex social problems. Students will identify ways that human actions influence the natural and human world.
   3. Global Social Responsibility: an ability to initiate meaningful interaction with people from other cultures and take informed and responsible actions to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges. Students will identify basic ethical dimensions local or national decisions that have a global impact.
   4. Theory to Practice: Students will identify how academic theory applies to global experience.

All experiences must be followed up with:

1. A completed Global Learning Experience Assessment Form
2. A dedicated page in your dportfolio