Building a Global Engagement Curriculum

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-04-10 10:31:00 UTC
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GES2009: Megha Agrawal - Content Director from Nathaniel Whittemore on Vimeo.
GES Content Co-Director Megha Agrawal discussing the first day of the GES curriculum

The core of the Global Engagement Summit is a curriculum that helps students move their projects progressively along the path from idea to implementation. The curriculum includes core curriculum that everyone participants in, and then blocks with themes like "Communication," "Innovations in Social Change," and more. In each block, students have five or six choices and choose the workshop that best fits their projects and interests.

During the day yesterday, all delegates had a core curriculum that included four workshops including

For the rest of the event, thethey had a workshop block focused on Communication (with topics ranging from Healthy Working Groups to NGO/Government Relations), a small group discussion focused on motivations, and then the opening of the OpenShutter Project exhibit, a responsible media collaboration.

To learn more about all of the workshops, check out this link to the notes from each session: GES2009 Workshop Notes or check out the notes from Professor Paul Arntson's Community Consulting workshop about how to maximize the relationships between insiders and outsiders in the context of international development.

Community Consulting

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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