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Swampscott High School Global Competency Program

Swampscott High School Global Competency Program. The Swampscott High Global Competency Program seeks to challenge students to see beyond the horizon of Swampscott and recognize the importance of comprehensive and interdisciplinary studies.

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Swampscott High School Global Competency Program

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  1. Swampscott High SchoolGlobal Competency Program

  2. The Swampscott High Global Competency Program seeks to challenge students to see beyond the horizon of Swampscott and recognize the importance of comprehensive and interdisciplinary studies. • Our goal is to guide students in a broad, multi-cultural education to make them thoughtful contributors in the world.

  3. The core component of the program is international awareness. • Students will be geographically, politically, historically and culturally aware. • Swampscott High School has added several new electives that support and promote the Global Competency Program.

  4. REQUIREMENTS: • Students must complete a sequence of a spoken language other than English. • Students will perform a prescribed amount of community service with a global theme. • Students will participate in international travel and/or locally global events, or host an international student. • Students will take a minimum of 10 credits of globally focused electives in several academic areas.

  5. Students may begin to work towards their Global Competency certificate in their freshmen year. • Student will create a Global Project showcasing the sum of their experiences from their global education. They will also formally present their project to the school and community.

  6. Upon completion of the Global Competency Program, graduating seniors will have notation on their transcripts and receive a GCP certificate.

  7. Global Competency Program Checklist • A sequence of spoken language study other than English. • 10 credits of global based electives. • Community service with a global theme. • Foreign Travel or hosting foreign student. • Global Competency Project and presentation.

  8. Global Electives: • Video, Television & Media: • Media Literacy I & II • Foreign Films and Global Media English: Film Studies, Pop Literature, The Graphic Novel, Crime Literature, Journalism Social Studies: International Relations, Humanities, Universal Human Rights, Economics, China & the World, Turbulent Sixties

  9. Electives cont. • Mathematics: • AP Statistics, Probability & Statistics Foreign Languages: All offerings in the language department Science: Environmental Science, Astronomy, Science Art & Technology

  10. Electives, cont. • Career Technology Education • Entrepreneurship &Business Management, Marketing I & II, Sports & Entertainment Marketing, Selected Virtual High School Classes • All STEM courses • Visual & Performing Arts • Studio Art, Drawing, Sculpture, Painting, Cultural Art, Piano Lab, Mixed Chorus, Jazz & Rock Ensemble, Theater.

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