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LIU Brooklyn LIU GLOBAL LIU Global offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Global Studies. Students complete the Global Studies degree through four years of coursework and integrated field experience undertaken as they travel eastward around the world--from Latin America, to Europe, to Austral- Asia, and finally to the United States. They begin with the Global Studies foundation year in Central America. They then move in their second and third years to Europe and then to China or Australia/Asia Pacific. In the first semester of their senior year they are placed in an international internship with a leading organization dedicated to addressing a chosen global issue and carry out independent research; in the final Capstone Semester in New York City, they complete their senior thesis and enroll in a second senior internship. As students move around the world, they acquire the knowledge, skills and perspectives necessary to provide leadership in the Global Age. The Global Studies curriculum is made up of three kinds of coursework: Area Studies courses and fieldwork delivered at each LIU Global Center or Program. Drawing on LIU Global’s decades of engagement with partners and communities around the world, these courses deepen students’ knowledge of the countries, languages and cultures of the region in which the center or program is located. The area studies courses combine classroom work with integrated field experiences and travel. (Consult http://liu.edu/Global/Academics for details of each program.) Global Studies. Core courses and field work that build academic knowledge and skills across the program’s four years. This sequence of required courses, distributed systematically around the world, equips students with disciplinary lenses to explore the world’s interdependent cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems, as well as critical thinking, communication and research skills. Students also examine local manifestations of the world’s most pressing global issues and explore approaches of addressing these in each of the regional contexts. The sequence culminates in a set of upper division courses in the last four semesters that include two senior-year internships and the completion of a senior thesis. Minors in International Relations, Entrepreneurship, Arts and Communications, and Foreign Languages. LIU Global students have the opportunity to pursue one or more minor of their choice in Entrepreneurship, International Relations, Arts and Communications, and Foreign Languages. All minors require the completion of a minimum of 15 credits from the approved courses listed on the website which should be taken into consideration in students' academic planning. Page 1 LIU Brooklyn Undergraduate Bulletin 2019 - 2020 Bulletin 2019 - 2020 For information, please contact the LIU Global office at 516-299-3401, email us at [email protected] or visit the website at www.liu.edu/Global. New York Center Rick Nader Chief Research and International Officer Acting Dean, LIU Global College [email protected] Carlett Thomas Director of Student Affairs & Administrative Services [email protected] Jocelyn Lieu Senior Thesis Coordinator [email protected] Costa Rica Center Sarah Moran Assistant Dean Director of Costa Rica Center [email protected] Europe Center Logan Sparks Director of Europe Center [email protected] China Center Difei "Vivian" Hu Director of China Center [email protected] Asia-Pacific Australia Soenke Biermann Director of Asia-Pacific Australia Center [email protected] LIU Brooklyn Undergraduate Bulletin 2019 - 2020 Page 2 LIU Brooklyn B.A. in Global Studies Overview which they will live and will apply the center include experiential programming that takes program’s goals to any future professional local reality as the curriculum’s living textbook. and Curriculum endeavors. The world-wide program is designed to build 4. Through its own practice, LIU Global intends students' capacity and confidence to carry out Faculty: Rick Nader (Acting Dean), Sarah Moran, to model the principles it hopes to teach, that of independent work. Logan Sparks, Vivian Hu, Soenke Biermann, creating a global community that promotes In the over 50 years of its existence, LIU Global Jocelyn Lieu individual respect and collective responsibility, has developed a full range of experiential Adjunct Faculty: 14 ecological sustainability, solidarity and service programs that take full advantage of local to others, and support of local efforts to address opportunities. Description and Mission locally identified needs. Although the specific details for each program are included in each location’s individual web page, LIU Global Mission and Vision Overview of the Four-Year each program combines several elements from the list below to deliver a powerful set of experiences. Mission Curriculum • Field excursions, lasting up to a day and usually It is the mission of LIU Global to provide its linked to a specific course. Program Sequence students with the knowledge, experiences, and • Extended study travel, regional travel lasting (Note: Study locations are subject to change). skills that will enable them to become socially from several days up to two weeks with Year Fall Semester Spring Semester responsible, engaged leaders in a richly diverse itineraries often integrated into several courses. Year One Costa Rica Costa Rica and increasingly complex world. Through an • Short- and long-term home stays, periods of (excursions to S. (excursion to innovative, inquiry-driven, experientially-focused residence with local families in which students Caribbean and Panama City and curriculum, LIU Global is committed to offering learn local languages and ways of life. Bocas del Toro, Guna Yala) life-changing educational opportunities to students • Community engagement projects linked to a Panama) that expose them to the direct effects of global global issue or service opportunity carried out issues on local communities. Year Two Spain (excursionItaly (excursions with a local partner. LIU Global considers the world as its campus to Morocco) to Austria, • Field Experiences engaging with Non- and sees engagement with people of different Hungary and Governmental Organizations (NGOs), local cultures as integral to the learning process. An LIU Bosnia- enterprises, and institutions whose mission is Global education is a transformative educational Herzegovina) related to either a course topic or a student's experience that combines rigorous academics, Year Three China or Asia- China field research. career development, and individualized learning in Pacific (Fiji, (excursions to • IRIS and Capstone Internships, semester-long the world’s dynamic regions. Australia and Hong Kong and placements carried out in both semesters of the New Zealand) Taiwan) OR senior year, first abroad and then in New York Vision Australia City. As a program within Long Island University, (excursion to • Senior Thesis Field Research, carried out LIU Global seeks to support the LIU mission and Bali) during the first semester of the senior year in a vision (see below) by promoting the development Year Four International New York City field placement co-designed by the student and of a learning community that actively contributes Research & (excursions to advisor. to a global dialogue addressing the world’s most Internship Washington pressing issues. Semester D.C. and Learning Goals 1. LIU Global aspires to become a leader in the (Australia, National field of global studies through an innovative, China, Costa Conference on LIU Global Goals and Outcomes experiential, and globally-based curriculum Rica, and Undergraduate guided by local scholars that integrates Europe) Research coursework with community engagement in the (NCUR) Learning Goal 1: Global Solutions search for greater understanding, cooperation, and collective action in the interests of the Why Choose LIU Global? Global College graduates are committed to world community. engaging with humanity’s collective challenges. 2. LIU Global aspires to develop a superior The LIU Global undergraduate program couples Through multi-disciplinary inquiry, as well as student-centered experience that will enhance innovative classroom work, research, and direct through experience of several world regions, they an appreciation of diversity, cultivate engagement with people, places, communities, and comparatively articulate local manifestations of sensitivity towards the human and ecological organizations throughout the world. Rather than global problems, and identify and contribute to impact of examined issues, and inspire presenting students with abstract fragments of the solutions to them. creativity and commitment to explore a world divorced from reality, the LIU Global peaceful and sustainable future for all peoples classroom is a place where students prepare and the world. themselves for field work and study travel through Outcome 1: Use scholarly research and field 3. LIU Global’s future is guided by the reading and research. The LIU Global classroom is experiences to identify pressing global issues, understanding, belief, and commitment that our also a place, after students return from the field, local and global responses to those issues, and graduates will have the skills, knowledge, where students reflect and write about their productive paths toward addressing them. awareness, and cross-cultural competencies that experiences, transforming them into useful will prepare them for a personal and knowledge. professional life of committed action in