Global Citizenship
Prepare to be a global citizen who is educated, compassionate, and ready to serve in your community and world! This class will have both a learning and service component.
Learning: Our first semester we will examine digital media and free speech in a rapidly changing modern world. We will discuss democracy, local engagement, and elections while following the American elections. During our second semester, we will dig deep into the history and context of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and global politics, specifically China/US relations.
Service: An essential component of our class will be the opportunity to personally engage in world events by becoming an English conversation buddy with a Ukrainian teenager. You and your partner will meet once a week for an hour. We hope over the course of our class you will develop a friendship with your buddy and learn firsthand what life is like for teens living in through the Russia/Ukrainian war. We will be volunteering through an organization called EnGIN that will provide you with plenty of support, training, and discussion materials to help you and your new friend have a great experience. And every minute of your volunteer time is counted as homework time for our class!
Time 12:30 - 2:30 | Ages 16+ | Level Master |
Mentors Heather Hamberger | Tuition TBD Winter Semester |
Class Schedule
Prerequisites
Materials Required
All students must have an internet enabled device or computer to bring to class. Students must be able to access email, slack, kahoot, and search the internet in class. Students must be able to readily receive approval for access to websites necessary for class activities.
Homework
1-1.5 hours volunteering time, 1.5-3 hours homework. We will try to keep it close to three hours total as possible.
Notes
This is a high-level geopolitics class that will be discussing current events and their historical context. As such, class content may have challenging topics and materials such as: violence (war), profanity (in real-life events) and upsetting content (authoritarianism is ugly!) We will do our best to provide you with age-appropriate materials, but by the nature of the content this will be a challenging, more adult level class. You are always free to skip or adjust or request substitutions for any class content.
Books Students Provide
Title: Freedom: This Is Our Constitution
Required: yes
Own or share with sibling? can share
Notes: Purchase here from Amazon
Title: Freedom: How We Lose it and How We Fight Back
Required: yes
Own or share with sibling? can share
Notes: Purchase here from Amazon
NOTE: More books will be required for Winter Semester, TBD.