Globally connected courses (GCC) enrich course material by enabling students to examine course material through different cultural lenses. Each of Kenyon’s globally connected courses partners with a course with related content taught at a non-U.S. institution. Through shared readings, discussions and activities, students expand their understanding of class topics and gain more nuanced understandings of how people with different cultural, political, economic, etc. backgrounds might react to, analyze and/or understand the course material.
Recent Globally Connected Courses
Explore the most recent GCCs taught at Kenyon.
This course explores the social world(s) we live in by analyzing what we eat, where it comes from, who produces it and who prepares it and how.
Connected with:
Human Nutrition and Wellbeing, American University in Cairo (Egypt)
Introduction to Global Health, Oberlin College (Ohio, USA)
The fundamentals of composing both solo and group works are presented through the exploration of dance dynamics, improvisation and movement problem-solving.
Connected with:
Choreography, FLAME University (Pune, India)
This course explores the impacts of tourism on local communities and the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political motivations that encourage individuals to participate.
Connected with:
Digital literacies, AI Literacy and Intercultural Learning, American University in Cairo (Egypt)
This course explores the diversity of African art created on the continent and throughout the diaspora, from antiquity to the contemporary period.
Connected with:
Freehand Drawing, Effat University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
This course deals with these issues by examining the social, economic and political forces giving rise to immigration today; the different ways nations have chosen to define citizenship and how those rules affect immigrants; the different strategies nations have used to incorporate immigrants; attempts to control immigration and their consequences; and the implications of immigration for recipient societies.
Connected with:
Social Justice Service Learning, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador