Seventh Annual Global Citizenship Symposium
2015-2016
For the seventh consecutive year, Santa Monica College is proud to present our students' finest work investigating and celebrating the ideas and practices of global citizenship and its annual theme.
All SMC students are invited to submit their work from the 2015-16 academic year with the best examples receivingprizes as well as campus wide recognition for their achievement.
Application Deadline: April 1, 2015, by 5:00pm
Please complete the online application and email your project to Janet Wolf (). Make sure to include your name, group members (if applicable), and SMC ID in your emails. Both the online application and project submission need to be completed by the application deadline to participate in the Symposium.
*If you submit an application, you must be available to attend the symposium ceremony from 10:30am to 3:30pm on May 6, 2016. Selected applications will be invited to present their project on May 6 at the Symposium ceremony.
What is Global Citizenship?
To be a global citizen, one is knowledgeable of peoples, customs and cultures in regions of the world beyond one's own; understands the interdependence that holds both promise and peril for the future of the global community; and is committed to combining one’s learning with a dedication to foster a livable, sustainable world.
Annual Theme
Gender Equity: Is Equity Enough? is this year’s Global Citizenship theme. It centralizes on the idea that “A person’s gender greatly impacts one’s opportunities and constraints in all aspects of life. Globally whether we are discussing inadequate access to education, a lack of access to health care, the achievement gap between boys and girls, forced early marriages in some countries, or unequal employment opportunities, gender inequities remain shockingly persistent. One of United Nations 2015 Millennial Development Goals is the promotion of gender equity and the empowerment of women.”
Who Can Apply to Enter this Competition
1. Anyone student enrolled in a class at Santa Monica College during the 2015-16 academic year is eligible to enter work derived from that class, or from another project done this academic year under the supervision of an SMC faculty member. Students are welcome to submit revised or expanded versions of their course work, but the project must be rooted in something they produced at SMC.
2. You must be available to present on the day of the Symposium, May 6th 2016* to qualify.
Projects Which Qualify for Submission
1. Submitted Projects must be related to Global Citizenship physically, literally and/or figuratively;
2. Although not required, participants are strongly encouraged to submit projects that relate to the annual theme of gender equity;
3. Any Class Project that relates to Global Citizenship;
4. Any Non-class Project that relates to Global Citizenship that is completed for the competition while enrolled in the 2015-2016 school year and under the guidance of an SMC instructor.
5. Projects can be of any type including but not limited to research papers, speeches, films, artwork, dance, theater, athletic, essays, computer design, etc.
6. Questions to consider in developing your project: What does global citizenship look like in your discipline? How does your project address/relate to gender equity? In what way does your project empower people to impact that problem for the better?
FAQs
Who is eligible to enter their work?
Anyone enrolled in a class at Santa Monica College during the 2015 – 2016 academic year is eligible to enter work derived from that class, or from another project done this year under the supervision of an SMC faculty member. This includes works completed during the most recent summer and winter intersessions, as well as the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 semesters. Students are welcome to submit revised or expanded versions of their course work, but the project must be rooted in something they produced at SMC.
Can group projects be entered?
Yes. Students can enter their work individually or as part of a group that worked together on a project.
Does the work have to be a formal "research" project?
No. We invite submissions of any original student work that is connected to global citizenship and derives from an SMC course or under the supervision of a faculty member. This could be a project that investigates a specific global issue, or it could be a celebration or critical reflection on what it means to be a citizen of planet Earth. The presented work can take any number of forms, including written prose or poetry, works of art, live speeches and performances, film, and poster and multimedia presentations.
What is "global citizenship"?
Good question.Here is how the college's Global Council currently articulates the concept, but this symposium provides students with an opportunity to lay out an alternative vision of global citizenship as well. For more information please see the SMC Global Citizenship website atwww.smc.edu/GlobalCitizenship.
Must entries relate to the annual Global Citizenship theme?
No. We have chosen an annual theme since 2009-10 in order to provide the college community with a more focused set of issues that might facilitate interdisciplinary discussion better than the abstract idea of global citizenship itself. This year’s theme isGender Equity: Is Equity Enough?, and we certainly would welcome entries that relate to the theme and its attention to local and global inequalities. We also have recognized each year the single best theme-related entry with a special President's Award. However, it is not required that work entered be related to this year's theme; anything of relevance to some aspect of global citizenship is welcome.
Do selected entries need to be present during the Symposium Event day (May 6)?
Yes. As a symposium/showcase, the main purpose of this event is to provide students with a forum for sharing their work with the larger college community. More than just display their paper, poster, film, dance, speech, sculpture, etc., this event invites students to share and discuss their work, along with the ideas and motivations that lie behind it, with an audience of fellow students and teachers from a variety of the college's departments and programs. It is a relatively rare opportunity for artists to share their work with non-artists, scientists with non-scientists, and so on, as part of an interdisciplinary conversation about global citizenship.