1. MSU GLOBAL
CITIZENSHIP
PROGRAM
The concepts forming the definition of global citizen:
Awareness, responsibility, participation, cross-cultural empathy, personal
achievement, and international mobility.
Hans Schattle, The Practices of Global Citizenship

2. EXPLANATION
 Two year program with team teaching and advisory components
 Globally –focused, curriculum integrated program using service
learning, civic engagement, ethnography and education abroad
 Focused on conditionally admitted freshman
 Special designation as a Global Citizen on transcripts

3. STUDY ABROAD PARTICIPATION RATES
2009-10 ACADEMIC YEAR
MSU
Development
U.S. Kentucky Murray State al Students
• 262,416 • 2,913 • 319 students 11 students
students students abroad (approx. 3.5%)
abroad abroad • 11% of total who
• 1.1% of total Kentucky successfully
U.S. students students completed
abroad abroad developmental
coursework at
Murray State
studied abroad

4. REACHING GOALS
MSU 5/5/50 Senate Bill 1
 Increase of study abroad  3% increase in college
participation through completion rates of students
integration of study abroad entering without being
programs into the existing prepared for credit-bearing
curricula at MSU in each
undergraduate major field of coursework
study
 Attained goal of 5% of the
MSU student body annually
who have studied abroad

5. Existing Structures to
Foster Global Citizenship
o Earlham College (Indiana),
the ethnography project
o Kalamazoo College
(Michigan), the Integrative
Cultural Research Project
(ICRP)
o HECUA (Higher Education
Consortium for Urban Affairs)

6. FIRST SEMESTER
 Fulfill developmental  Review MAP Report for
requirements: English, math, completion of any University
and/or reading
Studies electives completed
 Course load limit of no more
than 16 hours a semester this semester
until the required  Begin recruiting students for
developmental courses are the Global Citizenship
completed
program
 Must maintain a minimum University Studies Electives
cumulative GPA of 3.00 (4.00 Oral and Written Communication
scale)
Global Awareness, Cultural
 FYE 098, New Student Diversity, and the World’s Artistic
Orientation. Course designed Traditions
to assist students admitted Scientific Inquiry, Methodologies,
with conditions and Quantitative Skills
Social and Self-Awareness and
Responsible Citizenship
World’s Historical, Literary, and
Philosophical Traditions
Writing Intensive and Technology-
Intensive Electives

7. SECOND SEMESTER
 ENG 105
 ENG 111
 ANT 140, fulfills one Global
Awareness, Cultural
Diversity, and the World’s
Artistic Traditions
 COM 131, fulfills one Oral University Studies Electives
Oral and Written Communication
and Written Communication
Global Awareness, Cultural
 Scientific inquiry, Diversity, and the World’s Artistic
Traditions
Methodologies, and
Scientific Inquiry, Methodologies,
Quantitative Skills suggested and Quantitative Skills
Social and Self-Awareness and
Responsible Citizenship
World’s Historical, Literary, and
Philosophical Traditions
Writing Intensive and Technology-
Intensive Electives

8. THIRD SEMESTER
 Study Abroad Summer
Program
 HUM 205, ethnography
Language
 Foreign language course
and
Culture
 Culture course
Ethnography
Global Citizenship
University Studies Electives
Oral and Written Communication
2nd Global Awareness, Cultural
Diversity, and the World’s Artistic
Traditions
2nd Scientific Inquiry, Methodologies,
and Quantitative Skills
Social and Self-Awareness and
Responsible Citizenship
World’s Historical, Literary, and
Philosophical Traditions
Writing Intensive and Technology-
Intensive Electives

9. FOURTH SEMESTER
Integrate service learning and
civic engagement:
 YNL 290, fulfills 1 of the
Ethics, Social Responsibility
and Civic Responsibility
requirments
 SOC 231, fulfills 1 of the University Studies Electives
Social Sciences 2/ Oral and Written Communication
 Fulfill requirements specific 3
to degree 2nd Global Awareness, Cultural
Diversity, and the World’s Artistic
Traditions
2nd Scientific Inquiry, Methodologies,
and Quantitative Skills
Social and Self-Awareness and
Responsible Citizenship
3rd World’s Historical, Literary, and
Philosophical Traditions