Part I Introduction 11 Connecting Beyond the Classroom: Why You Should Be Globally Connecting Your Courses and How It Benefits You and Your Students 3Deirdre Johnston and Irene López2 How Can I Do A Globally-Connected Course? A Short Primer Based on Past Globally-Connected Courses 18Simon J.M. Gray3 Assessment of Globally-Connected Courses: How Successful Global Course Connections Can Make Your Students Less Anxious, Smarter, and More Culturally Competent 36Irene López and Deirdre JohnstonPart II Case Histories 53Development of Global Self-Awareness 554 Yearning Toward Community: Gaining Global Awareness Through Conversations on Literature 57Patricia Bloem5 In Between Dreaming and Insomnia: A Cyber-Dialogue Dance Project 76Julie Brodie and Laura DavidPerspective-Taking 936 I Am Because We Are: Discovering Self and Others Through Study of Global Conflict 95Deirdre Johnston and Dagmar Kusa7 Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Others: Learning Perspective-Taking Through Storytelling 117Emilienne Idorenyin Akpan and Joshua Searle-White8 Cross-Training and Perspective-Taking: The Development of an Oral History Project in the Sciences and Humanities 128Taylor Allen and Kim FoxUnderstanding Cultural Diversity 1399 What Do These Students Think of Us? Managing Intergroup Anxiety in a Virtually-Connected Course 141Irene López and Wejdan Felmban10 Physical Embodiment of Culture Through Movement 161Balinda Craig-Quijada and Priya JoshiDevelopment of Personal and Social Responsibility 17711 Beyond Grades: Advancing Global Learning Through Personal and Social Responsibility in A Globally-Connected Peace Journalism Course 179Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob and Wajiha Raza Rizvi12 Developing a Global Mindset in Business Education: Supporting Personal and Social Responsibility 195Vicki L. Baker and Antonis KlidasKnowledge of Global Systems and Global Contexts 21113 Service-Learning as a Catalyst for Global Learning and Civic Engagement: A Collaborative Pedagogical Experiment 213Gina Annunziato Dow and Karla Díaz14 Nurturing Global Problem Solvers: An Action Research Approach to Instructional Design 230Chong Xiao and Wing Fung ChanPart III Future Directions 24715 Best Practices for Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement 249Irene López and Deirdre Johnston16 Expanding Our View of Global Learning Outcomes 264Deirdre Johnston and Irene López17 Making Global Course Connections an Institutional Priority 294Deirdre Johnston and Irene LópezAppendix 1: Global Learning VALUE Rubric 305Appendix 2: Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric 309Appendix 3: Example of Travel Seminar Connected to Global Course Partnership 313Appendix 4: Examples of Memoranda of Understanding for Institutional Global Partnerships 357Index 372
DEIRDRE JOHNSTON is Senior Director of Global Education and Professor of Communication Studies at Hope College, Michigan, USA. She is the author of The Art and Science of Persuasion, and co-author of Research Methods for Everyday Life and Understanding Human Communication.IRENE LÓPEZ is Associate Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA. She the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and a former Fulbright scholar in Budapest, Hungary.