Throughout my time at FIU I participated in globally engaging activities, workshops, and seminars. According to FIU, "every undergraduate course and campus activity that is part of Global Learning for Global Citizenship empowers students to achieve the following learning outcomes:

• Global Perspective: Ability to conduct a multi-perspective analysis of local, global, international, and intercultural problems.

• Global Awareness:  Knowledge of the interconnectedness of local, global, international, and intercultural issues, trends, and systems

• Global Engagement: Willingness to engage in local, global, international, and intercultural problem solving."

 

I attended a handful of the Tuesday Times Roundtable discussions, offered by the Global Learning Office, which each brought different speakers to address different topics. These discussions provided a nice breakaway from my day but still kept my mind engaged and thoughts provoked.

 

I attended a StartUP FIU presentation that was called "Sea Level Rise 101." I found this discussion to be particularly engaging due to the relevance of the effects of sea level rise in the South Florida area. The speaker, Alec Bogdanoff, shed some light to the current situation of sea level rise and how it will directly affect us. He informed us that if we as a society continue at the same rate we are currently going, then sea level will rise two feet in the next 50 years. Therefore we need to take action now to help slow the process and one day maybe reverse or improve the climate.

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I also took part in the Student Leadership Summit offered by FIU. This was a day full of workshops set forth to improve upon yourself and the way you lead others. My favorite part of the Summit was listening to Alex Chacon, the modern motorcycle diaries guy, tell his story and give us advice on how to follow our dreams and be our own leaders. Getting to meet and speak with Alex was incredibly motivational as he urged us to get out into the world, make it our own, and stop holding ourselves back.

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Global Learning courses focus on providing a global perspective on the particular discipline of study. The following are the GL courses that I took during my time at FIU.

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• -Studies in World Religion (REL3308)

• -Modern American Civilization (AMH2042)

• -Western Civilizations: Early European Civilization (EUH2011)

• -Intro to Environmental Science & Lab (EVR1001 & EVR1001L)

• -Intro to Marketing (MAR3023)

• -Hospitality Law (HFT3603)

• -Hospitality Facilities Environmental Systems Management (HFT4323)

• -Sustainable Tourism Practices (HFT3701)