FYS-Global Learning seminars invite first-year students to explore cultural diversity and global challenges while developing awareness and critical thinking skills that will help them thrive in an interconnected world.
Interested in Teaching? Here's How!
STEP1: Submit a course proposal by the seminar proposal deadline
STEP 3: FYS will promote your Global Learning Seminar to all incoming students at each summer orientation and throughout the academic year!
First-Year Seminars are an exciting program of small, innovative classes that reflect the instructor's intellectual interests. Limited to 19 students each, these unique courses promote intellectual exchange, critical thinking, and community. Global Learning Seminars, a collaboration between UC Davis Global Affairs and First-Year Seminars, provide an occasion for students to explore cultural diversity and/or learn about global challenges and how they are being addressed, while developing awareness and critical thinking skills that will help them thrive in an interconnected world.
Global Learning Seminars aim to enhance students’ sense of identity, community, and ethics, as well as their capacity for problem-solving and perspective-taking, in ways that are at once collaborative, equitable, and sustainable. These seminars are an important way that UC Davis is pursuing Global Education for All—a campus goal to provide 100% of UC Davis students with global learning experiences.
Global Learning Seminars provide important opportunities for students to:
- Build Global Awareness
- Students examine actions and relationships that influence global systems from multiple perspectives, analyzing how complex systems impact themselves and others.
- Embrace Diversity
- Students explore complex dimensions of diversity, equity and inclusion around the world, including language, culture and identity.
- Act Globally
- Students create strategies to apply knowledge, skills, and abilities to collaboratively address global challenges, locally and beyond.
Global Learning Seminar Resource Library
The Global Learning Seminar Resource Library includes:
Resources
To support you in teaching a Global Learning Seminar, Global Affairs has developed a library of resources including Global Learning Outcomes, sample syllabi, scholarly articles, links to news articles and discussions on topics like academic engagement, cultural wealth, and global learning. If you are interested in discussing embedding Global Learning within a FYS, please contact Esther Luna DeLozier (eldelozier@ucdavis.edu).
Ready to Propose a Global Learning Seminar?
More Information Regarding Global Affairs
Esther Luna DeLozier
Coordinator
Global Affairs
(530) 754-1617
eldelozier@ucdavis.edu