The Academic Experience

The Honors Global Citizen Scholars Program (GCS) utilizes the timeless rigors of the liberal arts and humanities to confront the most critical challenges of our globalized age. In doing so, it prepares students for personal and professional lives that make positive impacts both in their communities and in our rapidly changing global society. Through strategic institutional, community, and international partnerships as well as innovative academic, experiential, and co-curricular programming, students become effective global citizens who engage meaningfully and effectively with diverse people, places, events, challenges, and opportunities. As part of the GCS program, every student commits to taking part in diversity initiatives and study abroad. The three primary qualities that define a GCS student are: global awareness (understanding the most important challenges facing all humans), global responsibility (exploring one’s ethical role in the world), and global participation (enacting changes that make a positive difference in the world).

The Global Citizen Scholars program features a tailored honors curriculum that offers unique learning opportunities in the liberal arts and humanities, global learning, and U.S. diversity. Honors Global scholars take a three-semester sequence, Human Rights and Global Citizenship, a series of honors critical thinking seminars that use the humanities and project-based learning to cultivate cultural literacy, knowledge of diversity and inclusion, and ethical thinking, while deepening skills of critical thinking and writing. The sequence includes a required study abroad at the end of the first year. Each Global Scholar will also complete an honors capstone project in their field of study, a project informed by the rest of their curriculum.Students in the Global Citizen Scholars Program complete:

The Range Program: 7 credits

A signature series of 1-credit honors courses taken each semester starting the spring of the first year. (UHON 1108, 2108, 3108, 4108)

The Global Citizen Scholars Minor: 18 credits




 
CHNG 1008 - Place as Text: From Exploration to Impact (3 credits)
UHON 1418 - Human Rights and Global Citizenship I (3 credits)
UHON 2418 - Human Rights and Global Citizenship II (3 credits)
UHON 3418 - Human Rights and Global Citizenship III (3 credits)
Global Capstone: Any 4018 Honors Capstone in student major (3 credits)


 
Advisor Approved elective: choose 3 credits from the following:

• UHON 3908 - Honors Internship (1-4 credits)
• UHON 4808 - Honors Study Abroad (1-6 credits)
• Additional 4018 honors capstone in student major (3 credits)

Capstone hours are generally taken in the senior year. The Advisor Approved Elective can be taken any time during sophomore to senior year. The other courses in the minor must be taken as follows:

Apply for the Global Citizen Scholars Program

NOTE: You must apply first to ETSU and use your @etsu.edu email to apply to Honors College Programs

If you don’t know your ETSU email address, contact the Admissions Office to get it.