Global Learning Certificate
College-approved Certificate
Program Description
The Global Learning Certificate provides students an interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary global issues. Enrolled students, who join a cohort referred to as “Global Scholars,” develop important 21st century skills, including intercultural communication, global awareness, and perspective taking. They then learn to apply these skills to contemporary global contexts. The program provides students with more competitive resumés for the job market, increased scholarship opportunities, and better transfer applications for four-year colleges and universities. All this is accomplished while maintaining adherence to the Core Curriculum and allowing for students to earn a certificate while working toward an associate degree.
Global Awareness
Develop an understanding of the relationships between the self and both local and
global communities. Recognize how ideas, events, and actions in one location have
consequences in areas across the world.
How are we all connected? Who am I? What is/will be my role locally and globally?
Perspective Taking
Recognize ways in which one’s own perspectives and beliefs have been shaped, as well
as acknowledge and respect a diversity of cultural, political, social and economic
perspectives beyond one’s own.
What are my beliefs? How did I get them? What do people in other cultures believe?
What are commonalities and differences among world cultures?
Global and Local Engagement
Recognize complex power structures and inequities among cultures, regions, nations,
and societies. Engage in socially responsible problem solving in global and local
contexts.
What are forces that bring us together and that drive us apart? What are aspects of
global here in my local community? Can I communicate effectively in cross-cultural
environments? What can I do to address global problems responsibly?
An Opportunity to Study Abroad
A key feature of the Global learning Certificate is the study abroad component, a unique opportunity for Massasoit students to spend time with fellow Global Scholars and faculty members outside the United States. Students will spend a week in a host country experiencing its culture, its economic system, and participating in a service-learning project. When international travel is not a part of the course, students will participate in local experiential learning through short domestic field trips.
Global Scholars will leave Massasoit with important 21st century skills which prepare them for increasingly international workplaces, universities, and communities.
Past travel opportunities during Spring Break have included: Morocco, Portugal (the Azores), and Costa Rica.
Students who attended the trip to Morocco in Spring of 2023 talk about their experiences and the benefits of traveling abroad as part of their college experience.
View the Students’ Experiences video >>
View the 2024 Global Studies Seminar page : The Azores, Portugal.
Check out our Global Studies Seminar Ireland page featuring our Spring 2025 course focused on the history, society, and culture of IRELAND. International travel is not part of the course; instead, students will participate in Massachusetts and New England short field trips/experiential learning.
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