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GCU 121 World Geography I Eastern Hemisphere Global Awareness (G) GENERAL STUDIES COURSE PROPOSAL COVER FORM (ONE COURSE PER FORM) 1.) DATE: 10/16/13 2.) COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Maricopa Co. Comm. College District 3.) COURSE PROPOSED: Prefix: GCU Number: 121 Title: World Geography I: Eastern Hemisphere Credits: 3 CROSS LISTED WITH: Prefix: Number: ; Prefix: Number: ; Prefix: Number: ; Prefix: Number: ; Prefix: Number: ; Prefix: Number: 4.) COMMUNITY COLLEGE INITIATOR: JOHN SHAFFER PHONE: 480-423-6032 FAX: 480-423-6298 ELIGIBILITY: Courses must have a current Course Equivalency Guide (CEG) evaluation. Courses evaluated as NT (non-transferable are not eligible for the General Studies Program. MANDATORY REVIEW: The above specified course is undergoing Mandatory Review for the following Core or Awareness Area (only one area is permitted; if a course meets more than one Core or Awareness Area, please submit a separate Mandatory Review Cover Form for each Area). POLICY: The General Studies Council (GSC-T) Policies and Procedures requires the review of previously approved community college courses every five years, to verify that they continue to meet the requirements of Core or Awareness Areas already assigned to these courses. This review is also necessary as the General Studies program evolves. AREA(S) PROPOSED COURSE WILL SERVE: A course may be proposed for more than one core or awareness area. Although a course may satisfy a core area requirement and an awareness area requirement concurrently, a course may not be used to satisfy requirements in two core or awareness areas simultaneously, even if approved for those areas. With departmental consent, an approved General Studies course may be counted toward both the General Studies requirements and the major program of study. 5.) PLEASE SELECT EITHER A CORE AREA OR AN AWARENESS AREA: Core Areas: Select core area... Awareness Areas: Global Awareness (G) 6.) On a separate sheet, please provide a description of how the course meets the specific criteria in the area for which the course is being proposed. 7.) DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED Course Description Course Syllabus Criteria Checklist for the area Table of Contents from the textbook required and/or list or required readings/books Description of how course meets criteria as stated in item 6. 8.) THIS COURSE CURRENTLY TRANSFERS TO ASU AS: DECGCUprefix Elective Current General Studies designation(s): N/a Effective date: 2014 Spring Course Equivalency Guide Is this a multi-section course? yes no Is it governed by a common syllabus? yes no Chair/Director: JOHN SHAFFER Chair/Director Signature: Emailed to J. Holston AGSC Action: Date action taken: Approved Disapproved Effective Date: Arizona State University Criteria Checklist for GLOBAL AWARENESS [G] Rationale and Objectives Human organizations and relationships have evolved from being family and village centered to modern global interdependence. The greatest challenge in the nuclear age is developing and maintaining a global perspective which fosters international cooperation. While the modern world is comprised of politically independent states, people must transcend nationalism and recognize the significant interdependence among peoples of the world. The exposure of students to different cultural systems provides the background of thought necessary to developing a global perspective. Cultural learning is present in many disciplines. Exposure to perspectives on art, business, engineering, music, and the natural and social sciences that lead to an understanding of the contemporary world supports the view that intercultural interaction has become a daily necessity. The complexity of American society forces people to balance regional and national goals with global concerns. Many of the most serious problems are world issues and require solutions which exhibit mutuality and reciprocity. No longer are hunger, ecology, health care delivery, language planning, information exchanges, economic and social developments, law, technology transfer, philosophy, and the arts solely national concerns; they affect all the people of the world. Survival may be dependent on the ability to generate global solutions to some of the most pressing problems. The word university, from universitas, implies that knowledge comes from many sources and is not restricted to local, regional, or national perspectives. The Global Awareness Area recognizes the need for an understanding of the values, elements, and social processes of cultures other than the culture of the United States. Learning which recognizes the nature of others cultures and the relationship of America’s cultural system to generic human goals and welfare will help create the multicultural and global perspective necessary for effective interaction in the human community. Courses which meet the requirement in global awareness are of one or more of the following types: (1) in- depth area studies which are concerned with an examination of culture-specific elements of a region of the world, country, or culture group, (2) the study of contemporary non-English language courses that have a significant cultural component, (3) comparative cultural studies with an emphasis on non-U.S. areas, and (4) in-depth studies of non-U.S. centered cultural interrelationships of global scope such as the global interdependence produced by problems of world ecology, multinational corporations, migration, and the threat of nuclear war. Global Awareness [G] Page 2 Proposer: Please complete the following section and attach appropriate documentation. ASU--[G] CRITERIA GLOBAL AWARENESS [G] Identify YES NO Documentation Submitted Course Competencies, 1. Course Outline, Studies must be composed of subject matter that addresses or Syllabus, Class leads to an understanding of the contemporary world outside the Schedule, Textbook U.S. Outline, See pages 3-6 for more detail. 2. The course must match at least one of the following descriptions: (check all which may apply): a. In-depth area studies concerned with an examination of culture-specific elements of a region, country or culture group. The area or culture studied must be non-U.S. and the study must contribute to an understanding of the contemporary world. b. The course is a language course for a contemporary non- English language, and has a significant cultural component. c. The course is a comparative cultural study in which most, i.e., more than half, of the material is devoted to non-U.S. areas. Course Competencies, d. The course is a study of the cultural significance of a non- Course Outline, U.S.-centered global issue. The course examines the role of Syllabus, Class its target issue within each culture and the interrelatedness of Schedule, Textbook, various global cultures on that issue. It looks at the cultural Examples of Class significance of its issue in various cultures outside the U.S., Assignments. See both examining the issue’s place within each culture and the pages 3-6 for more effects of that issue on world cultures.” detail. Global Awareness [G] Page 3 Page 3 of 7 Course Prefix Number Title Designation GCU 121 World Geography I Eastern Hemisphere Global Awareness (G) Explain in detail which student activities correspond to the specific designation criteria. Please use the following organizer to explain how the criteria are being met. Criteria How course meets spirit Please provide detailed (from checksheet) (contextualize specific examples evidence of how course meets in next column) criteria (i.e., where in syllabus) 1. Studies must be composed of subject As stated in the Official Course 1. Course Competencies & matter that addresses or leads to an Description, this course focuses Course Outline: All of the understanding of the contemporary world on a “description and analysis course competencies and outside the U.S. of spatial variations in social, outline topics focus on subject economic, and political matter meeting Criterion 1. phenomena in major world regions. Emphasis on Europe, 2. Course Syllabus. All of Russia, North Africa, and the the areas listed on the Asian world.” syllabus in green / orange emphasize the course’s focus on subject matter meeting Criterion 1. 3. Class Schedule. All of the areas listed in the syllabus in green / orange (see Class Schedule) emphasize the course’s focus on subject mater meeting Criterion 1. 4. Textbook Table of Contents. The chapters covered in the course (1,2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) focus on subject matter meeting Criterion 1. 5. Map / Culture Quizzes. These are designed to help students understand the geography of location for each realm covered in the class, as well as their cultures. For example, in Quiz #1 students learn about the geographical location of countries; important mountains, rivers, and bodies of water; and most important for Global Awareness, the culture of the realm (e.g., cultural aspects involving agriculture, religion, and Global Awareness [G] Page 4 transportation routes). 2d. The course is a study of the cultural This course will examine: (1) 1. Course Competencies & significance of a non-U.S.-centered global The realms of the world in the Course Outline: The issue. The course examines the role of its eastern hemisphere. Each study following course target issue within each culture and the for the region covers the major competencies emphasize interrelatedness of various global cultures cultural / geographic settings for cultural significance issues on that issue. It looks at the cultural the realm. (2) major global meeting Criterion 2d significance of its issue in various cultures cultural issues (global climate (Competencies 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, outside the U.S., both examining the change, terrorism) and its 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, issue’s place within each culture and the significance for each realm 21, 22, and 23). effects of that issue on world cultures.” covered for this course (Eastern Hemisphere). (3) Cultural 2. Course Syllabus. All of elements of each region in the the areas listed on the eastern hemisphere. While syllabus in blue / orange covering each country/region emphasize the course’s focus there is an in-depth study of the on subject matter meeting cultural phenomena unique to Criterion 2d. that country and the surrounding regions.
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