Transcript Global Competency Program (GCP)

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.
• Our goal is to guide students in a
broad, multi-cultural education to
make them thoughtful contributors
in the world.
• 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.
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.
• 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.
• Upon completion of the Global
Competency Program, graduating
seniors will have notation on their
transcripts and receive a GCP
certificate.
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.
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
Electives cont.
• Mathematics:
– AP Statistics, Probability & Statistics
Foreign Languages:
All offerings in the language
department
Science:
Environmental Science, Astronomy,
Science Art & Technology
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.