gls freshmen presentation: passport to a global future
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Overview and framework of the GLS freshmen presentation from 9/21/2010; includes discussion of cosmopolitanism; overview of the sites; and a key issues in determining which site to select.TRANSCRIPT
- 1.Passport to a Global Future
GLS, the GNU, and Your Life
as a Student of the World
2. The Global Core: Heart and Foundation
Great Works Curriculum
Study in and of the city/world: Use of Local and global
resources
Foundation for future work
"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several
ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into
philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is
by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
--Isaac Newton, in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke in 1676
3. There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the
beginning of it.Charles Dudley Warner
4. Cosmopolitanism
The question was put to him what country he was from, and he
replied, I am a citizen of the world.
Diogenes (404-423 BC) as reported in Diogenes Laertius The Lives
and Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers 3rd Century AD
Cosmopolitas: Cosmos (world) + Politas (city)
Twin Impulses:
Recognizes that we are responsible for one another
Recognizes that we each hold a multiplicity of cultural heritages,
languages, and perspectives
Not cultural relativism: a shared dialogue about and responsibility
for whats right and wrong
5. 6. Definition: Cosmopolitanism, the Antonym of
7. GLS, the GNU, and Glocalism
Global and Local
In and of the city, in and of the world
Creating a community of micro-communities without
homogenizing
Find home abroad, finding abroad home
NYC as model: 40% born outside of the US; Global to its core
8. Looking Ahead: The Junior Year
- Paris
9. Shanghai 10. Tel Aviv 11. Berlin 12. Buenos Aires 13.
Florence 14. MadridStudents spend the full year at each site to
most deeply immerse themselves in local language and culture, as
well as to best explore the resources in these global idea capitals
for their research.
15. Plotting Your Route: Junior Year Site Selection
- Academic/Subject Area
16. Individual Subject Areas of Interest 17. Site Areas of Expertise/Specialization 18. Local Academic and Cultural Resources (Museums, Libraries Performance spaces) 19. Language/Culture 20. Area of Regional Specialization/Inquiry 21. Interest in cultural influence of one region on another (diasporas) either historically or now 22. Professional Goals 23. Experiential Learning: An improvement on and refinement of the Internship 24. Where you want to work when you graduate: both in what industry and in what country