First Year Experience Global Learning


Instructor/Program Director: Dr. Jerry Daday jdaday@iu.edu
Length: Semester
Achievement category: Global Engagement
Compensation: Uncompensated
Additional details: Credit Bearing, Communicator, Community Contributor, Fully On-Campus

IU Indianapolis is committed to preparing all students to be citizens of the world through global learning. Demonstrating that commitment, the IU Indianapolis Dimensions of Global Learning (DGL) were approved in Spring 2020 to help faculty, staff, and administrators develop more intentionally global and intercultural learning experiences across the curriculum and co-curriculum. In an effort to introduce freshmen and transfer students to global skills and competencies, global engagement content has been added to the First-Year Experience (FYE), embedding social identities, critical self-awareness, cultural humility, and global citizenship into the traditional college transition curriculum. Instructors of the global engagement curriculum incorporate international, intercultural, and/or global component(s) into the content of their Bridge and/or first-year seminars, providing students with opportunities to reflect on their learning and assessing their reflections. Students in the global engagement first-year seminar engage in at least one structured activity and assignment that makes them more aware of their identities and worldview, the different aspects of the cultures they identify with, and, importantly, how culture and other social, political, economic, and spiritual elements of their worldview affect their beliefs, values, behaviors, and sense of self. The activity or assignment should help them better understand and articulate their identities, as well as dominant and marginalized norms and beliefs of their home culture(s). They will write a reflection about what they learned that will be assessed by the instructor according to a rubric and included in the final grade calculation for the course.