Form a working group to recommend ways to promote student awareness and perspectives on global topics and challenges.
This item supports sub-objective H1
Expand opportunities to increase awareness of global issues and cultures
Goals Supported
Goal 3 - Enrich the student experience by embracing opportunities for community involvement
Goal 4 - Educate future leaders to be global citizens meeting global challenges
Sub-Objective Timeline
2017/2018
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Form a working group to recommend ways to promote student awareness and perspectives on global topics and challenges.This item supports sub-objective H1Working group formed
A UTM working group was created (as a division-specific entity of the Global U scholars’ program), with the aim to undertake consultations on ways to promote student awareness and perspective on global topics and challenges.
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Identify how to better communicate and promote ways in which UTM courses and programs provide awareness of global issues and cultures.This item supports sub-objective H1
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Identify how to better communicate and promote ways in which UTM courses and programs provide awareness of global issues and cultures.This item supports sub-objective H1Certificate in Global Perspectives drafted
A proposal for a Certificate in Global Perspectives was drafted by the working group and presented by the Chair of Language Studies at all three divisional curriculum committee meetings (Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities). The proposed goal of the Certificate is to develop intercultural fluency through multiple perspectives, and expertise on a specific region of the world. Courses will cover development, history, politics, culture, geography, and gender studies in a global or region-specific context. The Certificate requirements include completion of 1.0 full course equivalents (FCE) from an approved list of global perspective electives, as well as 1.0 FCE from an approved list of specific “Area Studies” electives established by all participating academic units.
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Continued development of curriculum involving international experiences (ROP, Study Abroad, integrated trips).This item supports sub-objective H2
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Continued development of curriculum involving international experiences (ROP, Study Abroad, integrated trips).This item supports sub-objective H2Development of International Experiences
The Office of the Dean, in collaboration with the International Education Centre (IEC), is continuing the development of curriculum involving international experiences (ROP, Study Abroad, integrated trips. We have developed 11 unique course integrated short term academic experiences across 7 different departments including Biology, Language Studies, and Sociology in 13 different locations including Peru, Italy, Cambodia and China. Visit the UTM Abroad website for more details.
2018/2019
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Implement recommendations to promote student awareness and perspectives of global topics and challenges.This item supports sub-objective H1
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Implement recommendations to promote student awareness and perspectives of global topics and challenges.This item supports sub-objective H1Certificate in Global Perspectives proposed to UTM Academic Affairs Committee
The Proposed Certificate in Global Perspectives was submitted to the UTM Academic Affairs Committee (ACC) in Fall 2018, and was approved on January 15th 2019. The Certificate will be housed and managed by Language Studies. Units across the three divisions (Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Historical Studies, Language Studies, Philosophy and Psychology, among others) proposed both Global perspective gateway elective courses and Area Study courses to enrich the options available to students within their programs. After a full year of operation, Language Studies reported 174 students who enrolled and completed the Certificate program requirements.
International Education Centre activities
- An intercultural development role and programming was introduced to support student awareness and perspectives of global topics and challenges.
- Feedback was also collected from students to determine better approaches to communicating and promoting global learning.
- The Centre also implemented a new virtual platform to facilitate student engagement with global opportunities.
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Seek financial support for expansions of international experiences open to UTM students.This item supports sub-objective H2
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Seek financial support for expansions of international experiences open to UTM students.This item supports sub-objective H2Expansion of integrated international experiences
In 2019-20, UTM experienced an expansion of integrated international experiences across multiple faculties through UTM Abroad. Examples of experiences include:
- Students in BIO210 (now BIO209) travelled to Peru to learn about Health Care and Traditional Medicine and how it relates to Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Students in FAH287 travelled to London and Paris to learn about European Art of the Nineteenth Century
- Students in UTM290 (now JBH417) travelled to the Dominican Republic to learn about the History and Ecology of Exploration, Contact, and Exchange
Virtual global learning opportunities
In 2020-2021, in response to the ongoing pandemic situation, the International Education Centre (IEC) implemented virtual global learning opportunities to enhance participation and access to global learning.
2020/2021
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Evaluate and report on status of student awareness and knowledge regarding global perspectives and challenges.This item supports sub-objective H1
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Evaluate and report on status of student awareness and knowledge regarding global perspectives and challenges.This item supports sub-objective H1Global Leaders Minor program
The Global U scholars working group introduced the proposal for a free-standing tri-campus Global Leaders Minor program. The UTM Representatives on this working group are Vice-Dean, Academic Experience and Professor Michael Lettieri, and Professor Emmanuel Nikiema. The Chair of Language Studies, as Chair of the academic unit housing and managing the Global perspectives Certificate, consulted with interested Chairs and partners in other units across UTM, and a Curriculum Planning Group was created to discuss and propose the content of the core course GLB201 assigned to UTM by the Tri-campus working group. Work is still in progress for the Minor program still in its development stage within the tri-campus group and the content of the course (GLB201H) assigned to UTM. The planning of GLB201 is coordinated by a local UTM curriculum working group.
International Education Week
The International Education Centre (IEC) introduced an International Education Week at UTM to promote student awareness and perspectives on global challenges. The Centre also introduced one-to-one peer led appointments and social media campaigns in addition to tailored presentations, information sessions and the annual Study Abroad Fair, to raise awareness of existing International Education opportunities. Emphasis was placed on showcasing the student experience of previous program participants. As a result of these efforts, there was an increase in participation in the number of UTM students engaging in learning abroad opportunities (outbound mobility) by 64% compared with 2017-18.