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Learning Outcomes

Global Honors students will:

1. Demonstrate deep engagement with international history, culture, and contemporary challenges, in the core courses; understand connections between the local and the global, in Global Honors coursework and capstone projects
2. Present their learning experiences from study abroad to the UWT community
3. Demonstrate competence in interdisciplinary perspectives and synthesis in completing a senior capstone project, and thus be better prepared for graduate studies and/or careers
4. Demonstrate enhanced skills in research, critical thinking, writing, working cooperatively, and oral communication
5. Articulate their interpretation of global citizenship through a reflection essay
6. Enrich their studies in their majors, with a broad interdisciplinary and international academic curriculum and study abroad experience that emphasizes interconnectedness

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

(Numbers in parentheses correspond to the Learning Outcomes each assesses)

• Papers and projects in Global Honors core seminars, maintaining a 3.5 overall grade point average (1)(4)
• Presentation on study abroad in Fall Quarter (2)
• Completion of a capstone project under the supervision of a faculty adviser, earning a 3.5 minimum grade (Three options for capstone project: thesis, project, or community service with reflection paper) (3)(4)(6)
• Presentation at the annual Spring Global Honors Colloquium (4)
• Developmental assessment: essay written on entering the Global Honors Program on the student's personal definition of global citizenship, and essay on the same topic as student is graduating (5)

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