2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog

Global Foundations

Global Foundations

Global Foundations

All students must complete a global foundations course or experience. Either a global foundations course or an approved global experience will meet the graduation requirement. Greenville offers many courses during the academic year that meet the global foundations requirement. Students may also fulfill their global foundations requirement through participation in off-campus programs such as those offered by the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.

The Diversity Committee must approve all courses that seek to fulfill the global foundations requirement.

In global foundations classes, the following three learning objectives must be incorporated. 

Students will be able to:

  1. Articulate a Christian call to unity that supports a greater good and extends respect and understanding to all humankind, as all are created in God’s image.
  2. Explain ethnocentrism and its role in the development of perceptions and reality.
  3. Demonstrate an expanded knowledge base about another culture(s), including cultural beliefs, values, customs, language, non-verbal communication and accomplishments. (International students may study U.S. culture.) 

Additional Criteria: Faculty must include at least one of these additional learning objectives in the course:

Students will be able to:

  1. Explain the issues of cultures in conflict between or within nations.
  2. Articulate an understanding of social and cultural change. 
  3. Relate the importance of cultural and ethnic self-identification.

Further, faculty must incorporate these components into their global foundations classes:

  1. Administer pre- and post- assessments that measure students’ learning with regard to global and cultural knowledge. 
  2. Travel courses must include coursework (readings, reflection, assessments, etc.) about the culture being studied. Courses taught from our home campus must include an experiential component that engages students in the culture being studied. Experiential learning may be done through service learning and/or collaborations with local and regional institutions.
 
BUSN 351International Business

3

CRJS 304Criminal Justice Community Relations

3

EDUC 202Cultural Awareness in the Classroom

3

ENGL 243Global Literature

3

ENGL 246Contemporary Cross-Cultural Literature

3

HIST 110/HIST 310/SPAN 310Latin America

3

HIST 202Eastern Civilization

3

HIST 225History of Slavery in the United States

3

HIST 226Long Civil Rights Movement

3

HIST 230World Religions

3

HIST 248History of Mexico

3

HIST 310Latin America

3

HIST 315Judaism, Christianity, Islam

3

HIST 325History of Slavery in the United States

3

HIST 326Long Civil Rights Movement

3

HIST 345History of Judaism

3

HIST 348History of Mexico

3

LEAD 310Cultural Influences in the Workplace

3

MUSG 304Music for Multicultural Worship

1

PSYC 235Cultural Psychology

3

SOCI 112Intro to Anthropology

3

SPAN 232Spanish Cultural Immersion

3

SPAN 310Latinoamerica y Su Civilizacion

3

SPAN 345Cultura por Pelicula

3

SPAN 355Cultura e Idioma

3

SPAN 370Literatura Latinoamericana

3

THEO 230World Religions

3

THEO 315Judaism, Christianity, Islam

3

THEO 325Rabbinic Interpretation - Scripture

3

THEO 345History of Judaism

3

THEO 453The Gospel and Politics of Race

3

Total Credit Hours:3

Other non-catalog courses that have been approved to meet the Global Foundations requirement include:

  • BIBL 172 Reading the New Testament in Honduras
  • BIBL 173 Interpreting the City: Reading the New Testament in Spain
  • BIBL 373 Interpreting the City: Reading the New Testament in Spain
  • GNRL 175 Cuisine and Culture
  • PHIL 375 Philosophy of Race and Christian Witness
  • POLS 172 Immigration in the United States
  • POLS 372 Immigration in the United States
  • SCWK 399 Gender Issues
  • SPAN 174 Riviera Maya Cultures and People

 

Students who wish to transfer a course from another institution should present the course syllabus to the Faculty Diversity Committee for review.

 

International students and children of missionaries who have spent several years living outside of the United States may take advantage of the University's PLA process to demonstrate that the Global Foundations learning objectives have been met.