Becoming Global Citizens: A Handbook for International Media and Communication

Becoming Global Citizens: A Handbook for International Media and Communications is a turn-key customizable online course package that introduces students to the global media environment and provides them with opportunities for expanding their own views and perspectives on the world and their role in it. The course package assists students in becoming more informed, highly engaged global citizens – members of the “global village”.

Students using Becoming Global Citizens will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of historical trends and foundations for mass communication and the world.
• Compare and critique current theories, paradigms and social movements in world communication.
• Develop intercultural communication competencies to include awareness, effectiveness and mindfulness. 
• Display knowledge of the relationship between news media, music and film, communication technologies and trends (digital, AI, etc.), and international communication.
• Evaluate and apply communication techniques from a variety of global perspectives.  
• Identify areas of future research/application of new communication paradigms, technologies, and platforms in the global marketplace.
• Transfer knowledge gained to the professional communication arena in individual areas of study and/or interest. 
• Identify areas of bias, discrimination and inequality in global media as points for improvement.
• Develop your own hypotheses about the future of global communication systems.
• Become more culturally and internationally minded concerning the mass media.

Becoming Global Citizens: A Handbook for International Media and Communications fuses readings, brief lecture videos with embedded discussion questions, short answer questions, quizzes, and interactive media. Additional resources and readings are also linked throughout the materials providing students an opportunity to learn beyond the bounds of course requirements. Let’s begin our exploration of global communication!