World Literature

Capstone 4

Capstone 3

Capstone 2

Capstone 1

Global Self-Awareness

Effectively addresses significant issues in the natural and human world based on articulating one’s identity in a

global context.

Evaluates the global impact of one’s own and others’ specific local actions on the natural and human world.

Analyzes ways that human actions influence the natural and human world.

Identifies some connections between an individual’s personal decision-making and certain local and global

issues.

Perspective Taking

Evaluates and applies diverse perspectives to complex subjects within natural and human systems in the face of

multiple and even conflicting positions (i.e. cultural, disciplinary, and ethical.)

Synthesizes other perspectives (such as cultural, disciplinary, and ethical) when investigating subjects

within natural and human systems.

Identifies and explains multiple perspectives (such as cultural, disciplinary, and ethical) when exploring subjects

within natural and human systems.

Identifies multiple perspectives while maintaining a value

preference for own positioning (such as cultural, disciplinary, and ethical).

Cultural Diversity

Adapts and applies a deep understanding of multiple

worldviews, experiences, and power structures while

initiating meaningful interaction with other cultures to

address significant global problems.

Analyzes substantial connections between the worldviews,

power structures, and experiences of multiple cultures historically or in contemporary contexts, incorporating

respectful interactions with other cultures.

Explains and connects two or more cultures historically or in contemporary contexts with some acknowledgement

of power structures, demonstrating respectful interaction

with varied cultures and worldviews.

Describes the experiences of others historically or in

contemporary contexts primarily through one cultural

perspective, demonstrating some openness to varied

cultures and worldviews.

Personal and Social

Responsibility

Takes informed and responsible action to address ethical,

social, and environmental challenges in global systems

and evaluates the local and broader consequences of

individual and collective interventions.

Analyzes the ethical, social, and environmental

consequences of global systems and identifies a range of actions informed by one’s sense of personal and civic responsibility.

Explains the ethical, social, and environmental

consequences of local and national decisions on global

systems.

Identifies basic ethical dimensions of some local or

national decisions that have global impact.

Understanding Global

Systems

Uses deep knowledge of the historic and contemporary

role and differential effects of human organizations and

actions on global systems to develop and advocate for

informed, appropriate action to solve complex problems

in the human and natural worlds.

Analyzes major elements of global systems, including

their historic and contemporary interconnections and the

differential effects of human organizations and actions, to

pose elementary solutions to complex problems in the

human and natural worlds.

Examines the historical and contemporary roles,

interconnections, and differential effects of human

organizations and actions on global systems within the

human and the natural worlds.

Identifies the basic role of some global and local

institutions, ideas, and processes in the human and

natural worlds.

Applying Knowledge to

Contemporary Global

Contexts

Applies knowledge and skills to implement sophisticated,

appropriate, and workable solutions to address complex

global problems using interdisciplinary perspectives

independently or with others.

Plans and evaluates more complex solutions to global

challenges that are appropriate to their contexts using

multiple disciplinary perspectives (such as cultural, historical, and scientific).

Formulates practical yet elementary solutions to global challenges that use at least two disciplinary perspectives

(such as cultural, historical, and scientific).

Defines global challenges in basic ways, including a

limited number of perspectives and solutions.