Overview
The Core Integration Seminar (CIS) engages the Year Four Question: “Imagining the possible: What is our role in the world?” by offering students a culminating seminar experience in which students integrate the principles of Jesuit education, prior components of the Core, and their disciplinary expertise. Each section of the course will focus on a problem or issue raised by the contemporary world that encourages integration, collaboration, and problem solving. The topic for each section of the course will be proposed and developed by each faculty member in a way that clearly connects to the Jesuit Mission, to multiple disciplinary perspectives, and to our students’ future role in the world.
Applying the logic of Gonzaga's Core Curriculum to this course, the Global Citizenship CIS seeks to answer the question: what is our role AS CITIZENS in the world? Answering this question entails the following steps:
1.Exploring the origins and historical understandings of citizenship, especially those that have most strongly influenced American notions of citizenship;
2. Identifying the political values and ideals growing out of each student's civic biography and individuality;
3. Engaging in civic conversations with others;
3. Mapping opportunities for civic-minded behavior from individual to global scales.