Seeking Global Citizenship at Home and Abroad

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Climate, health, racial equity, human rights: most of the challenges we face require global analysis and location action, but initiatives for global citizenship across educational institutions are frequently under-theorized or marginalized. The ideals of active and analytically robust global citizenship, rooted in common human dignity, inclusion, justice, and sustainability, require simultaneous engagement with local civic entities and the capacity to support global education and critical analysis. In addition to conducting a thorough review of the literature, this course will integrate understandings of emplaced global civic practices, and how the central challenge of building a more just, inclusive, sustainable world is enacted through ethical community-campus partnerships and civil society actions. While local engagement with global issues will be a clear theme, the course will also include voices and perspectives from the Global South and from community partners around the world. Students will gain deeper understanding regarding theoretically robust practices for supporting critical global citizenship education and community-campus partnerships. The Wednesday meeting of this course may occur off-campus in Philadelphia, with rotating community organizations.