Become a Global Citizen
The Center for Global Humanities Seminar Series (GLS 490) enables you to deepen your understanding of past and present world issues, hones your abilities of cultural analysis, and encourages you to apply your developing global perspective to your chosen discipline. Through the course, you interact directly with thought leaders who visit campus to share their scholarship.
The class meets weekly on the Biddeford Campus and travels monthly to the Portland Campus for the Health Sciences for public lectures. Prior to each lecture, you read and discuss a relevant text, while conducting further research into the speaker’s topic. In the hour preceding each lecture, you get to chat informally with the speaker. And following each lecture, you participate in the public Q&A session with our guest.
You may take the CGH course for one semester, or may enroll for a second semester and be designated a CGH Scholar.
What Will You Learn?
In the CGH Global Humanities Seminar Series course students learn to:
- Apply a range of relevant theoretical and/or explanatory perspectives using appropriate investigative and analytical methods to interpret and critically analyze source material.
- Identify, describe, and interpret diverse forms of human cultural production and assess how they shape and are shaped by global, cultural, and historical contexts.
- Read and interpret scholarly works representing a range of disciplines outside their primary area(s) of study.
- Express the relevance of course texts to their lives, communities to which they belong, and intended future professions.
- Demonstrate the intellectual curiosity and openness to new ideas and cultures necessary to be a responsible global citizen.
- Develop the intellectual confidence and maturity to discuss their ideas with classmates, visiting scholars, and members of the general public.
Commitment to a broad perspective
Twice a year, the center honors students who have completed two (or more) semesters of the course, thus earning CGH Scholar designation.
Awardees are called to the front of the lecture hall at the start of our final public events in December and April and commended for dedicating themselves to becoming informed global citizens through their engagement with the course. They are presented with a framed certificate, signed by the UNE president and CGH director, honoring their achievement.
Earning this distinction indicates to graduate programs and future employers that CGH Scholars are well-rounded individuals committed to carrying into their future lives the broad perspective they’ve worked hard to cultivate during their time in the center.
CGH Scholars
The following students have successfully completed two semesters of the CGH Seminar Series course. Names that appear in bold are students who have completed three or more semesters.
2023
Fall
- Radfar Zohori
Spring
- Matthew A. Demers
- Ana Clara D. Fernandes
- Emily M. Greenleaf
- Mohamed H. Shaikh
- Paige B. Weatherbee
- Natalie J. Gray
2022
Fall
- Jordan R. Hendricks
- Courtney E. Lamphere
- Emily N. Taylor
Spring
- Danielle K. Bairrington
- Isabella C. Freitas
- Alexa L. Gresian
- Rachel Kaplan
- Kate A. Moore
- Julia M. Popson
2021
Fall
- Emilee Soucie
Spring
- Jacob D. Audet
- Sherina M. Balaparya
- Rachel A. Bryson
- Tyler J. Goy
- Kayla M. Gray
- Augustus F. Mendoza
- Gabrielle G. Sechio
- Hannah S. Storman
- Afnan S. Yahya
2020
Spring
- Derek K. DeMartinis
- Christina R. Ellis
- Alexander J. Martin
- Madeleine B. Morrison
2019
Spring
- Alec Beveridge
- Maeve Campbell
- Monica Dell’Aquila
- Amber Jenkins
- Brian Merz
- Emma Tobin
- Nicolas Yousse
- Kyleigh Bechard (3)
- Brittany Morrison (3)
2018
Fall
- Kyleigh M. Bechard
- Andrea L. Call
- Ray M. Gjelsvik
- Brittany Morrison
- Melissa Sprague
Spring
- Courtney Gautreau
- Quinn Lawrence
- Megan Stevens
- Mary Elizabeth Warlick
- Jessica White
2017
Fall
- Casey Woodward
Spring
- Robert Rizkalla Hanna
- Joseph Oliver
- Vincent Seroussi
2016
Spring
- Sara Drury
- Mirisa Klick
2015
Fall
- Steven Carroll
- Brittney Lashier
- Thanh Nguyen
Spring
- Taxiarhia Arabatzis
- Stevie Magnan
- Michelle Pham
2014
Spring
- Valerie Motter
2013
Spring
- Amanda Brathwaite
- Kathleen Collins
- Lauren D'Ascanio
- Katie McDermott
- Sharra Paquereau
- Christopher Veinotte
2012
Fall 2012
- Kayla Carr
- Katherine Warren (3)
Spring 2012
- Michelle Forbes
- Marissa Hammond
- Chloe Maiers
- Colleen Nickerson
- Tristian Rowe
- Katherine Warren
- Michelle Williams
2011
Spring
- Brianni Frazier
- Nicholas Gredin
- Brandon Hotham
- Katelyn Kaulback
- Brittany Mayou
- John Miller (4)
- Whitney Underwood
2010
Fall
- John Miller (3)
Spring
- John Miller
- Shannon Stevens
- Mary Taddia