Global Honors College

Partner(s): Kevin Griffin Global Honors College Access: Columbia only Released: June 2010 VIEW PROJECT

CCNMTL played a key role in the design, development, and implementation of the 2010 Global Seminar hosted by the Global Honors College, an inter-institutional program organized by Waseda University (Tokyo) that convenes faculty and undergraduate students from leading universities worldwide to conduct joint, structured, and sustained investigations of enduring and emerging global issues. The Global Honors College selects highly motivated undergraduate students from nine universities--including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Peking, Korea, and Waseda, and others--to participate in the Global Seminar, an annual, summer-long intensive course in which participants collaboratively research, debate, and document a specific topic; the 2010 Global Seminar focused on the subject of "sustainability." The seminar began with a two-month online phase followed by an "onsite" phase in Tokyo in which students and faculty met for a rigorous three-week period.

The Global Honors College is a Global Learning Initiative project.

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