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This web page is being reviewed and is expected to be updated for the Fall 2009 semester. In the meantime, please contact the department's administrative office for updates about academic requirements.
The idea of an LGS concentration is to focus LGS scholars' work on a specific topic during the remaining two years of their LGS studies, including their LGS junior and senior seminars, the internships or study abroad programs undertaken in the 3rd or 4th years of studies.
LGS concentration is viewed as the hub-point of the LGS learning experience.
Elements of the LGS concentration
- a general theme;
- special topics that relate to a general theme and are linked to students' majors or minors;
- a trans-disciplinary link that connects all special topics.
Concentration Groups
Beginning the Spring semester of Sophomore year, LGS scholars taking the LGS global issues II class form concentration groups of two to four students around a general theme. Within this general theme each scholar selects his or her own special topic that is linked to a student major or minor. Once group work within a concentration progresses, students are asked to focus on a trans-disciplinary link between their special themes. This trans-disciplinary link will bring different special topics together and give a concentration group greater thematic cohesiveness. Trans-disciplinary link could be, for example, based on:
- "levels of analysis:” global or local;
- "actors:” state, and non-state;
- "issues:” poverty, justice; freedom;
- "institutions" and "processes:” international organizations, national structures, standard operating procedures, norms, decision making processes.
The LGS Global Capstone course and the LGS concentration
LGS scholars will be expected to finalize their group work on concentrations during the LGS Global Capstone course, taken during the Spring semester of their senior year. LGS Scholars will be expected to deliver a major group presentation, ideally in the form of an action, hands-on oriented project: as a public presentation, whether on or off-campus, as an initiative, exhibition, or campaign.
Examples of Concentrations
This is not an all-inclusive list. LGS scholars are encouraged to come up with and work on the topics that match their own interests and experience.
What Is It to Be a Human?
Special Topics:
- biology: human mind
- sociology: human behavior
- political science: homo politicus
Transdisciplinary Link:
- transdisciplinarity: explaining genocide/holocaust
Nuclear Energy
- Political science/international studies major: nuclear proliferation; Iran's nuclear program
- Physics major: nuclear reaction and production
- Environmental studies major: nuclear waste and the environment
- Trans-disciplinary link: work and role of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Biofuel:
- Political science/international studies: food shortage/prices and conflicts
- Environment: impact of bio-fuels on global warming
- Biology/chemistry: genetically modified crops and fuel technology
- Trans-disciplinary link: work and role of the United Nations
Social responsibility, and corruption:
- Business: social entrepreneurship, ENRON case, mortgage crisis
- Political science: corruption and economic development
- Trans-disciplinary link: work and role of the World Bank/ IMF
Conflict:
- Performing arts (Dance, Design, Theatre, Music): roles and responsibilities of artists in a world wrecked by war
- Art: recovering artifacts stolen during the conflicts
- Trans-disciplinary link: war
Globalization:
- Art: global consumer culture in art
- Economics/political science: Role of Multi-National Corporations
- English: English as a tool of western imperialism?
- Trans-disciplinary link: money
Democracy:
- Communication: free speech, media and democracy
- International studies: multiculturalism and democracy
- Philosophy: fairness and justice in democracy
- Trans-disciplinary link: countries
Poverty:
- Studio art: photography in service of humanity: raising awareness about poverty/hunger
- Theater: play that illustrates the issue of poverty and puts it in the political, social or cultural context
- Trans-disciplinary link: poverty
Global warming:
- Environmental studies: causes, historical development and effects of global warming
- Political Science/international studies: negotiations of international treaties curbing greenhouse gases
- Economics: trading in "pollution", impact of global warming on economy
- Sociology: role and impact of social environmental movements
- Trans-disciplinary link: United Nations, international environmental cooperation and regimes
Immigration/migration:
- History: historical migration patterns and social/political tensions
- Political science/international studies: migrants and politics
- Economics: migration as economic benefit or a curse for the host country?
- Sociology: assimilation of migrants in the host countries
- Trans-disciplinary link: global migration patterns
Health:
- Economics: economics behind health
- Political Science/international studies: international cooperation on global infectious diseases
- Biology: human health and environment
- Nursing: health professionals versus medical professionals
- Trans-disciplinary link: global public health and the work of the World Bank, and the World Health Organization
Children
- Psychology/Sociology: Reintegration of Child Soldiers into the Post-Conflict Society
- Political Science: Child Labor
- Journalism: Child Abuse
- Trans-disciplinary link: Rights of Children: international conventions/international organizations
Global and local voluntarism and community service
- Social Welfare: voluntarism and community activism: what determines its raise and decline?
- Political Science/Sociology: role of the World Social Forum
- Trans-disciplinary link: war/natural catastrophes/human rights abuse around the world
Internet
- Computer Science: development and future of internet technology,
- Political Science: censorship on internet (e.g. China),
- Communication studies: media and internet
- Trans-disciplinary link: information revolution and its impact on humanity
Human Rights
- Criminal Justice: International tribunals and genocide/crimes against humanity
- Political Science/international studies: humanitarian interventions
- Gender Studies Program: violence/ discrimination against women
- Education: education as a right not a privilege
- Trans-disciplinary link: universalism versus relativism in human rights
Race/ethnicity
- African American and Ethnic Studies: racial profiling in crimes
- French: racism and riots on French Streets and in the world
- Political Science/International studies: ethnic conflicts
- Art: arts as means to discover, reinforce, recreate ethnic identities
- Trans-disciplinary link: developed and developing states
Contact
Download the flyer (PDF 148KB) about the Levermore Global Scholars Program. For more information, please contact:
Levermore Global Scholars Program
p - 516.877.4183
f - 516.237.8522
e - levermorescholars@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on March 26, 2009.
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