Global Studies and Service Diploma
Our Mission
The Global Studies and Service Diploma program challenges students to engage locally and globally as agents of social change. A Global Studies and Service student engages with the world on a variety of levels— compassionate, creative, intuitive, analytical—in advancing causes of equity, justice, and sustainability. Students who earn the Global Studies and Service Diploma will demonstrate active citizenship: the capacity to appreciate the global dimension of everyday, local life and to catalyze social change within an increasingly complex and international world.
Our Goals
A student who earns the Global Studies and Service Diploma will demonstrate the ability to:
- Understand and work fluently in a range of cultures
- Understand and analyze biases, norms, privileges
- Express a wide range of perspectives through writing and other narrative and creative forms
- Foster a sense of empathy, compassion, and an appreciation for our common humanity
- Effect change as an active citizen
- Act as a steward of the environment
Our Requirements
- Cross-cultural experience: On campus
- Cross-cultural experience: In the community
- Cross-cultural experience: Global
- Service
- Language proficiency
- Course Work
- Culminating Project
- In-Person Reflection