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.