DEPARTMENTS
SCHOOLS
SCHOOLS
Global Studies:
What is Global
Studies?
The Global
Studies program enriches the standard curriculum with age-appropriate activities that
expand children's personal knowledge of the world. Highlights include:
- STUDY OF WORLD CULTURES: WHO? A focus on people
and their cultures that leads to an awareness of the diversity of ideas
and practices found in human societies, and a search for commonalties and
universal human traits.
- STUDY OF GLOBAL ISSUES: WHAT? An awareness of
persistent and emerging problems and issues such as environmental
pollution, depletion of natural resources, and cross cultural conflicts
and a concern for human rights.
- STUDY OF GLOBAL SYSTEMS: WHY? An awareness of
the interdependent nature of world economic, political, technological and
ecological systems.
- STUDY OF GLOBAL HISTORY: WHEN? The study of history
with attention to the origin and development of cultures and values and
the contact and borrowing among societies.
- STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY: WHERE? The study of geography with
attention to developing an awareness of the role it plays in shaping all
the other areas of Global Studies.