Grant Year Awarded 2006
This grant program is intended to support major
institutional initiatives that will have a significant
impact on internationalizing the campus (ITC). The ITC
competition is designed for USG campuses that are prepared
to take major steps forward in building international
perspectives and global competencies into the fabric of
undergraduate education. North Georgia College & State
University was the inaugural recipient for this grant; and
focused on integrating two world regions: Asia and North
Africa/Middle East into the NGCSU core curriculum.
Joined 2009
NGCSU recently joined universities throughout the world
in support of the United Nations Academic Impact Initiative.
The United Nations Academic Impact Initiative will help the
UN build stronger ties with institutions of higher learning
around the world and leverage the resources of the global
higher education sector to promote UN goals. Participants in
the Academic Impact Initiative agree to commit themselves to
tolerance, diversity and dialogue as educational values,
human rights, among them freedom of inquiry, opinion, and
speech, educational opportunity for all people regardless of
gender, race, religion or ethnicity, universal adult
literacy, building capacity in primary and secondary
education systems across the world, building capacity in
higher education systems across the world, encouraging world
citizenship through education, advancing peace and conflict
resolution through education, addressing issues of poverty
and health through education, and promoting sustainable
through education.
Joined 2009
NGCSU recently participated in The Global Learning Forum
which featured the emerging curricular designs from
participating colleges and universities in Shared Futures:
General Education for Global Learning, a three-year project
begun in 2005. This project builds upon previous Shared
Futures programming to expand and extend the role of global
learning in general education curricula, with specific
emphasis on developing science pedagogies that foster global
learning. It currently consists of a network of 16
institutions, supported by the Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the Henry Luce
Foundation.
Joined 2009
The Institute of International
Education (IIE) launched the Get a Passport: Study Abroad
campaign in February 2009 to encourage all college and
university students to get a passport and to use their
passports to study abroad.
Model APEC
First Annual Model APEC held in 2009
The main goal of Model APEC is to educate students
regarding transnational negotiations and cooperation across
divergent cultures. The conference provided students with
real life problems that countries face, and students spent
their time attempting to write a resolution to solve the
problem given to them. Through negotiation and compromise
students were able to construct a resolution that addressed
major issues within the Asian region. Writing a resolution
not only taught students how to solve major issues, but how
to negotiate and handle relations on a global scale. The
students were judged throughout the conference and were
given scores for their preparedness, speaking skills,
negotiation skills, and overall organization.
North Georgia College & State University has developed a
new language center within its School of Education to
capitalize on the ever increasing number of language
programs and partnerships being developed as part of the
university's growing focus on global engagement. Beginning
this summer, the Center for Language Education (CLE) will
provide opportunities for international and regional
students who are future or practicing teachers to develop
language skills by improving their English or learning
another language. The university's goal is to promote the
best teaching practices for educators teaching English as a
Second Language (ESL) and to meet the needs of the state's
diverse public school students. The three areas the CLE will
focus on include ESL, educational endorsements for teachers
working with students speaking other languages, and
certifying teachers who speak other languages fluently so
that they can teach their native language in the education
field.
The institute seeks to immerse selected students in
specially designed academic and experiential programs
intended to provide a solid professional foundation for a
career in state or federal public service, international
business, or science professions. It is specially targeted
to developing future leaders who will be adaptive in nature
and possessing the experiential and academic foundational
skills required to understand strategic issues and acquire
global awareness. The Summer Institute consists of a Foreign
Language and Culture Module that is designed to be
academically challenging, fun and thoroughly rewarding. This
is a residential program. You will live on campus with other
students who are taking the same courses as you. Your
classmates will be students who have similar interests.
International Majors and Minors
Go beyond the United States' borders for a more global
education in major regions of the world! The Bachelor of
Arts degree in International Affairs provides a unique blend
of strong foundational courses and individual flexibility to
design a course of study most suited for different goals.
Through various course offerings, the International Affairs
degree enables students to pursue their individualized
interest in a major region of the world. At the same time,
they establish a strong foundation in theoretical and
analytical approaches to the field of international affairs.
Foreign Language Majors
Students have a choice of three degree programs in French
including the traditional French major, French with Teaching
Certification, and French with Business Emphasis.
The Department maintains three degree programs in
Spanish: the traditional Spanish major, Spanish with
Teaching Certification, and Spanish with Business Emphasis.
Foreign Language Minors
Fall 2007 saw the inception of a new minor in Chinese. In
fall semesters, students can now take an accelerated
sequence of beginning and elementary Chinese language (1001
and 1002). Both courses must be taken concurrently, for a
total of 6 hours credit. In spring semesters, the sequence
of 2001 & 2002 (Intermediate Chinese I and II) are offered
in the same format. CHIN 3001 is offered in the fall,
followed by CHIN 3002 in the spring.
The Department provides on-campus instruction in
beginning, elementary, and intermediate-level German, as
well as 2 courses of advanced-level study.
Other Language Programs
Under the auspices of NASILP (National Association of
Self-Instructional Language Programs), the Department initiated a pilot program in Arabic and Korean in the fall
of 2007. Russian has been added to the curriculum for the
fall of 2009. These programs include coursework at the 1001,
1002, 2001, and 2002 levels (3 hours each), which can be
used to fulfill language requirements for the core and those
majors/minors with additional language requirements.
Students should be aware that this SILP program does not
constitute an offering of classes, but rather a coordinated
system of independent study that is structured by
native-speaker/facilitators and external examiners for each
language. Please contact the Department for details.
