Student Tribune

Need Summer Credits? SUNY COIL Global Commons Summer Program Registration is Open!

The SUNY COIL Global Commons is back for 2021! This unique program includes two, 3-credit online courses and collaborative storytelling-based projects between students and international community-based, Non-Governmental Organizations. Many of these organizations are small, with few resources, working hard to improve circumstances in their local communities. Students will help these organizations to raise awareness of their work through the storytelling projects.

The Intercultural Storytelling course focuses on how stories shape the way people understand complicated issues. The second course, International Perspectives on a selected UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), provides an overview of the issues related to each of the SDGs and an in-depth examination of one aspect.

Students apply what they learn in their courses to help an international organization craft the story of its work. Throughout, students also learn about another culture, how it views the problems framed by the SDG, and how people around the world are working to address these challenges.

The feedback we have received from many students and faculty from the first running of this program last summer is that the experience was transformative for them. The same will be true this summer as well, please share this opportunity widely.

Deadline to sign up is this coming Monday, May 10th! See our website for full program details: bit.ly/sunyglobalcommons

Lee, Christina
Global Education & International Services
05/06/2021