The Douglass Global Village Learning Communities!
About Global Village
The Global Village is a learning community that seeks to develop intercultural appreciation, global awareness and a sense of community among students at Douglass. This unique year-long experience in a themed “house” combines academic and co-curricular activities, including a 1.5 credit course in the fall and spring, designed to enhance each student’s overall experience.
Participating in the Global Village community makes you eligible to join the Global Leaders FUNDED study abroad program in a subsequent year. Open for residents and commuters!
Application
Please contact Leslie Danehy, Leslie.danehy@rutgers.edu, if you are interested in joining the Global Village for 2024-25 school year.
2024-2025 House Themes
Engage with Africana Studies and the African Diaspora in New Brunswick and beyond. Learn about the contemporary issues facing members of the African Diaspora and explore Black feminist thought through cultural manifestations of identity politics. Enhance your academics with local and regional travel opportunities, special events, and local and global activism.
Explore LATINIDAD through critical discussion, and research the difference between what it means to be Latina/o/x both in our country and abroad. Engage with the rich cultural diversity across the Latin and Hispanic diaspora and learn how communities from distinct countries and cultures became portrayed as a single group.
Delve into a variety of practices of medicine designed by and from women and girls in a global context. Explore the field of medicine, public health, and the role women have played in research, and barriers to women in medicine careers. Learn about practical elements of a career in medicine, and engage with guest speakers from local, national, and regional organizations.
This house focuses on the importance of developing and implementing sustainable environmental practices that influence behavior, education, environmental access, bio-terrorism and more. This house is centered on nutrition, both physical and renewable resources and the urgency for answers to climate change.
This course exposes students to concepts and theoretical frameworks exploring race, gender, and other identity markers as societal categories aiding in the marginalization and/or privileging of particular groups and to examine the effect of this on the various global systems with which we interact. Upon completion of the course, students will have developed skills on how to analyze and investigate the complexity of race and gender as well as the global and local processes influencing marginalization.
Accordion Content
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- Become a Douglass student for $75 a semester - Click Here
- Complete a yearlong academic class by registering for a 1.5 credit course in the Fall and the Spring in the house you apply to
- Participate in house service-learning projects and excursions
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- Apply by January 15, 2024 for priority enrollment
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- You don’t have to major in the house theme – in fact, it’s a great way to make you a well-rounded global community member if you decide to live in a community that’s different from your major
- Commuters and transfer students are welcome