The Global Communities Living-Learning program is a cornerstone of the University’s vision. We seek to provide an intellectually engaging and socially active community for students to learn about globalization, and develop skills and attitudes to empower them to take advantage of its opportunities. We value diversity—cultural, intellectual, and ideological—and seek to provide a tolerant place where differences are celebrated. Participants in the program are part of a network of relationships beyond campus and outside the country.
Through coursework, intercultural/ international events, and an active intellectual and social environment, we aim to help students develop the global perspective that will enable them to navigate an ever more interdependent and diverse world.
MISSION
The Global Communities Living-Learning Program combines academic coursework and participation in a residential community in pursuit of three student learning goals: understanding globalization and the issues it raises, developing cultural competencies, and preparing for life and work in an interconnected world.
VALUES
Self-Reflection: Students are encouraged to explore dimensions of their identities and understand the place of their culture within a global context.
Community: Students become invested members of a welcoming, tolerant, diverse, open-minded community of scholars.
Scholarship: Students are exposed to theories and concepts that help them make sense of global interconnectivity, exchange, and interdependence, as well as the causes and consequences of major global issues.
Experience: Students are regularly provided opportunities to experience first-hand cultural differences and the influence of globalization in their everyday lives through excursions beyond campus, particularly in Washington, DC.
