GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES HEALING THE WORLD PEACE BY PEACE
WHO KNEW THAT THE INFLUENCE OF A SMALL COLLEGE IN THE MIDDLE OF AMERICA COULD REACH THE ENDS OF THE EARTH?
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GOSHEN IS A PRIVATE, CO-EDUCATIONAL, RESIDENTIAL, CHRISTIAN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE. OUR STUDENTS COME FROM MORE THAN AND COUNTRIES. OUR DOORS ARE OPEN TO EVERYONE.
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Goshen College has graduated an extraordinary number of students who have gone on to careers in diplomatic service and international relief efforts. One of our alumni, Orie B. Gerig ’17, even played a key role in creating the United Nations.
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MORE THAN A CENTURY OF
ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORLD. AT GOSHEN COLLEGE, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP IS SIMPLY PART OF OUR EDUCATIONAL AND SPIRITUAL DNA. As early as 1898, our students were packing their bags and heading halfway around the world for mission and famine relief work. In 1903, the college officially adopted the motto “Culture for Service” to proclaim the importance of a college education being used to serve others. And in 1968, Goshen College broke even more new ground, becoming one of the first colleges in the country to include an international education requirement in its core curriculum. As a student here, you’ll find out that “global awareness” isn’t a course you take, or a club you join. It’s how you live. Since 1968, we’ve sent more than 7,600 students to learn and serve in 24 countries worldwide. Our students and faculty are at home any place on the planet. With hope and service, we are striving to heal the world, peace by peace.
Goshen College is home to Study-Service Term (SST), one of the top-ranked study abroad programs in the country, and one of the few that emphasizes service and complete cultural immersion. Eighty percent of our students participate in SST.
A PASSION FOR CONNECTING
Lizzy Diaz CLASS OF 2013 SOCIOLOGY MAJOR GOSHEN, IND. WHY GOSHEN: I really liked the atmosphere and friendliness of people on campus. I appreciated the Christ-centered and service-leadership values of Goshen. I first thought I wanted to go to a big university, but Goshen is such a welcoming and diverse community. I wouldn’t have been challenged to go outside my comfort zone the way I was here. I had an awesome experience.
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE: I spent a semester in Egypt for my StudyService Term. It was so completely different from what I’d been exposed to. Seeing the interactions and friendships between Christian and Muslim students was inspiring and gave me hope for peace. We are really not that different.
I’M HOPEFUL: That I can use the things I’ve learned to promote good health, which brings peace within a person, within a family, within a community. I would like to see peace. I hope to see countries and cultures find common ground, so they can reach agreements rather than fight.
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Current SST locations include: CAMBODIA CHINA PERU SENEGAL TANZANIA
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45 YEARS. 14,000 HOST FAMILIES. 134,600,000 MILES AND
COUNTLESS CHANGED LIVES. WHEN GOSHEN LAUNCHED ITS STUDY-SERVICE TERM PROGRAM, “study abroad” usually meant going somewhere like London, Paris or Rome. But Study-Service Term (SST) took a different approach: It was a semester-long program that sent students not to European capitals, but to developing countries. It also emphasized service to a local community – and total cultural immersion. These days, Study-Service Term is still one of the most cutting edge international education programs in the country. We keep our locations current and constantly develop new service assignments
and unique learning opportunities. In SST, you’re not going to stay in a hotel or residence hall. All students live with local families and experience day-to-day life in the most personal way possible. That focus on intercultural and international understandings and the personal connections you develop will shape the rest of your Goshen College experience, and probably your life, as you prepare to live, serve and work in our complex and deeply interconnected world. You will become a truly global citizen.
LIVE YOUR FAITH. Study-Service Term provides a unique opportunity to not only live your faith through service, but also enrich your cultural understanding – and in doing so deepen your relationship with God.
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SINCE 1968, MORE THAN STUDENTS AND 150 FACULTY LEADERS HAVE LEARNED AND SERVED IN COUNTRIES THROUGH OUR STUDY-SERVICE TERM, WHICH ABOUT OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN – ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATES AMONG 4,000 U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
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STUDY-SERVICE TERM.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE. STUDY-SERVICE TERM (SST) IS A 13-WEEK PROGRAM THAT’S DIVIDED INTO TWO DISTINCT PARTS. During the first half of your journey, you’ll dive headfirst into the local culture – usually in that country’s capital city – with intensive study and language instruction alongside other Goshen College students (and the support of group leaders who are normally a faculty member and his/her spouse). You will take special excursions with your Goshen classmates (for example, in Peru, exploring Machu Picchu or in Cambodia the Angkor ruins). You will also be immersed in the local culture and lifestyle. And you will stay with a local family whose members will eagerly share their home along with delicious meals and unforgettable stories. For the second leg of your journey, you and your classmates will spread out, usually moving to a more remote, rural area in groups of two or three. Here you’ll meet your second host family and begin work on your service project.
An “international” education is more affordable than you might think. Close to 99 percent of full-time GC students receive some sort of financial aid, with the average package totaling $19,470.
Volunteer projects are designed to deliver a real, measurable contribution to the host community, and on occasion may even align with your academic course of study. You might live with indigenous people and teach English, teach sign language in Peru or learn how eco-tourism can improve everyday life in Tanzania. Regardless of the country you select, expect to be transformed. Often our SSTers say that their hosts give them far more than they feel they are offering in return – through kindness, acceptance, laughter and generosity. SST also provides a unique opportunity to grow spiritually by building meaningful relationships with people who are different than you, responding through service to the great needs of the world and being pushed beyond your comfort zone to ask meaningful questions that might change your life forever.
A PASSION FOR CARING
Lauren Treiber CLASS OF 2014 PEACE, JUSTICE AND CONFLICT STUDIES MAJOR GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHY GOSHEN: I come from outside of the Mennonite church, but I really wanted a peace studies program. When I heard about Goshen and checked out the core values, I was utterly stunned. I expected to have to go to a huge university and seek out my niche, but Goshen has everything I wanted and it felt perfect.
CAMPUS EXPERIENCE: As a PJCS major, I am tugged towards caring for those who suffer some of life’s most extreme traumas. As a student of writing, I strive to arrange words in such a way that someone else’s soul might be moved. As a member of choir and theater groups, I sense the strength in telling truth through sound, movement, genuine presentation and interaction with others.
I’M HOPEFUL: It matters less to me what I do. What’s important is how I learned to do it. From Goshen, I’m going to graduate with more than a degree; I’m going to graduate with a better understanding of the world. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
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A WORLD HOUSE OF LEARNING. At Goshen, you will join a community of students from 32 states and 36 countries. We have students from more than 40 denominations and several world religions. Students of color make up 28 percent of our enrollment (which includes international students, who are 9 percent of the student body).
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A WORLD TRAVELER TO HAVE
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. IN FACT, YOU CAN STAY RIGHT HERE ON CAMPUS AND THE WORLD WILL COME TO YOU. Tune in to world beat music on 91.1 FM The Globe, Goshen’s student-run radio station, which was named the Best College Station in the Nation in 2011 and 2013 by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. Attend the annual International Student Club Coffeehouse, with dinner and a variety show. You can also drop in at a Culture Cafe gathering, attend stimulating lectures on business or peacemaking throughout the world or join a student club, like Black Student Union, Eco-PAX, the International Student Club or the Latino Student Union. As a Goshen student, you’re likely to take a number of courses with international themes.
Current offerings include classes such as African Societies and Cultures, Asian Thought, Communicating Across Cultures, International Politics, Islam or Judaism, Latin American Societies and Cultures and World Religions. And you can always attend Goshen’s outstanding Performing Arts Series and hear such world famous performers as Bela Fleck, Emmylou Harris, Garrison Keillor, Los Lobos, Wynton Marsalis, Ricky Skaggs, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and the Wailin’ Jennys (to name a few). Academically, socially and spiritually, the Goshen experience has great breadth and depth. Come with an open heart and leave prepared to embrace your world.
In addition to campus classes and SST, our innovative May term provide opportunities for our professors to teach such subjects as marine biology in the Florida Keys, history and archaeology on Hopi and Navajo reservations, arts in London, business in China and Spain, nursing in Nepal, the Bible in Greece and Italy, and Anabaptist history in Paraguay.
GOSHEN COLLEGE’S VISION: Goshen College will be recognized as an influential leader in liberal arts education focusing on international, intercultural, interdisciplinary, and integrative teaching and learning that offers every student a life-orienting story embedded in Christ-centered core values: global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking, servant leadership and passionate learning.
GOSHEN COLLEGE WELCOMES ALL... GOSHEN COLLEGE HAS WELCOMED STUDENTS FROM SCORES OF COUNTRIES, INCLUDING: Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turks & Caicos, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zambia.
AND CONNECTS ACROSS THE GLOBE. OUR STUDENTS HAVE STUDIED AND/OR SERVED IN SUCH COUNTRIES AS: Barbados, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Lithuania, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain and Tanzania.
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GLOBAL GOSHEN
WE HAVE STUDENTS FROM 32 STATES AND 36 COUNTRIES STUDENTS OF COLOR MAKE UP 28 PERCENT OF OUR ENROLLMENT (WHICH INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, WHO ARE 9 PERCENT OF THE STUDENT BODY) ABOUT 80 PERCENT OF ALL STUDENTS STUDY ABROAD BEFORE GRADUATING MORE THAN HALF OF OUR FACULTY MEMBERS HAVE LIVED OR WORKED ABROAD SINCE 1968, MORE THAN 7,600 STUDENTS AND 150 FACULTY LEADERS HAVE TRAVELED TO 24 COUNTRIES CURRENTLY 20,000+ GOSHEN ALUMNI ARE LIVING, WORKING AND SERVING IN 90 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE
EVERY ACADEMIC PROGRAM CAN BE A MEANS TO MAKE PEACE
TEACHER CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS
Accounting ** *
Information Technology ** *
Sustainability *
Agroecology *
Interdisciplinary Studies **
American Sign Language ** *
International Studies *
Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies *
Journalism ** *
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Marketing ** *
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English/Language Arts
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Molecular Biology/Biochemistry **
Women’s and Gender Studies *
Broadcasting ** *
Multimedia Communication *
Writing *
Exceptional Needs: mild intervention
Business ** *
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English Language Learners (ELL)
Journalism
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Life Sciences and Chemistry
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Peace & Justice Studies *
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Peace, Justice & Conflict Studies **
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Physics **
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English Writing **
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Psychology ** *
Exercise Science ** *
Public Relations ** *
Global Economics *
Recreation and Sport *
Graphic Design *
Social Policy *
Health *
Social Work **
History ** *
Sociology ** *
History and Social Research **
Spanish ** *
Informatics ** *
Sport Management *
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