HUM 221 Global Leadership

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 3
Credits: 4

Provides a methodology to assess leadership skills and style. Develops personal leadership skills and applies them to a global perspective. Examines global perspectives and builds consciousness about issues of poverty in the United States and provides direct global experience by living and working in the community, with emphasis on the unequal distribution of wealth and power evident both locally and globally. Develops a broad understanding and critical thinking about global forces and culture through the integration of works of literature, contemporary multicultural readings, exercises and films. Creates an immersive, intercultural, and global service learning experience.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Explain social construction theories of the communities of focus for the course and be able to defend opinions through citation of relevant research and practitioners.
Integrate discrimination, power, and privilege vocabulary into assignments.
Critically analyze personal awareness and critical consciousness of the philosophy, attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes for the communities of focus.
Develop and apply a personal vision statement as practical guide for development of personal and global leadership.
Identify, examine, and articulate personal discomfort and sensitivity when learning about and experiencing cultural similarities and differences.
Trace the history of the communities of focus and summarize current progress or regress.
Demonstrate knowledge of major socio-economic factors and issues facing the communities of focus.
Develop intercultural competence through course content and a culturally immersive domestic service-learning experience.

Statewide General Education Outcomes:

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life; and
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Cultural Literacy Outcomes:

Identify and analyze complex practices, values, and beliefs and the culturally and historically defined meanings of difference.

Content Outline

Introduction to Social “ISM”s and Theories
- Critical race theory
- Gender theory
- Intersectionality
Intercultural Competency Development
- Exploration through literature of cultural respect and ignorance
- Cross-cultural understanding of social class and social power differentials
- Cross-cultural understanding of prejudice and active discrimination
- Cross-cultural understanding of attitude and superiority complex
- Developing intercultural competence through applied methodologies
- Developing an ongoing discrimination, power and resistance vocabulary
Historical Perspectives of Communities of Focus.
- Local and regional history
- National and international history
Current Issues for Communities of Focus, including, but Not Limited to, Social, Environmental and Political Issues
Capstone Service-Learning Experience Living and Working in the Communities of Focus