Global Smarts Internship

Catalog description

Global Smarts is a service-learning internship offered every spring in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia (WACP). For the semester, SJU students serve as mentors of middle-school children from under-resourced Philadelphia-area schools who are participating in the WACP’s annual Junior Model UN (JMUN) conference. WACP prepares SJU mentors to teach their mentees to act as national diplomats in a mock General Assembly session. At SJU, mentors learn about the UN, its constraints and accomplishments in global politics, and the complexity of constructing peace globally and locally. Because this is a Faith-Justice Service-Learning internship, we consistently process mentors’ experiences using key concepts (violence, peace, charity, justice, solidarity, and power) while also developing professional and personal skills.