EGI: Global Interdependence Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

•  Ask complex questions about other cultures or international processes

• Interpret intellectual and emotional dimensions of more than one worldview

• Describe how the lives, values, and experiences of people are affected by factors or processes outside of their own countries or localities

• Envision alternative strategies to address challenges rooted in interactions with people and societies outside the United States.

• Reflect on how personal choices and local actions affect and are affected by events or processes beyond national borders

University Core Learning Outcomes

Equity and Global Identities: Global Interdependence courses must be directed toward achievement of their Core component learning outcomes in order to introduce, develop, and achieve the relevant Core SLOs connected to this course in the overall Core design.

• SLO 6: All SLU graduates will be able to recognize transnational or global interdependence.

  • Global Interdependence courses must introduce students to and ensure that students develop and achieve the ability to recognize transnational or global interdependence. 

• Courses in this category EITHER examine at least one global or transnational process or system and its varying impacts on different populations OR explore environmental, epidemiological, social, cultural, economic, political, or other factors in a country or countries other than the U.S.

• May be taught from a historical perspective but must help students understand how historical developments affect the contemporary world

•  Engage students in reflection on how their choices and actions affect and are affected by events or processes beyond national borders

• Require students to produce an artifact or artifacts that can be used to assess student achievement of the required course learning outcomes