Global Perspective/World View

NYIT Global Competence: Students can identify interdependencies among cultures and are able to collaborate effectively, participating in social and business settings globally.

Upon graduation, students will be able to:

• Recognize the impact of the global interconnectedness of issues, processes, trends, and systems on their academic specializations and worldviews.
• Practice well-researched oral, written, visual, and digital communication in its diverse cross-cultural forms.
• Describe a complex global issue from multiple cultural perspectives and explain how those perspectives affect the treatment of the issue.
• Employ effective and appropriate interaction and teamwork with people of different nationalities and cultures, demonstrating respect for social, cultural, and linguistic diversity.

Resources in Supporting Global Learning and Assessment

Readings:

1. How Colleges Can Influence the Development of a Global Perspective
2. Global Competence: Paper from the Asian Society
3. Got Global Competency: W.Hunter-Leigh University
4. How to Build a Rubric for Global Competency in Engineering
5. The Case for Contamination (New York Times) by K.A. Appiah-Princeton

Assessment Tasks and/or Rubrics:

1. AAC&U Value Rubric for Global Learning & Assessment
2. Global Perspective Inventory: A student Survey Instrument
3. AAC&U Shared Future Assessment Matrices Samples
4. Rubric for Global Competency in Engineering
5. Engineering Example: Purdue University
6. The Problem with Hoodia: Assessment Task & Rubric FIU