Advising for the Minor and Certificate

The Global Service program (including the Global Service minor and the Peace Corp Prep Certificate) is designed for students with a range of career goals related to global service. You will work with the Global Service advisor to design a course of study that can be tailored to meet your individual professional aspirations and reflect your own experiences and expertise.

At this time, Global Studies minor and Peace Corps Prep advising will be facilitated by Program Director Kathie Carpenter, Professor in the School of Global Studies & Languages. For information or to set up an appointment, contact: kathiec@uoregon.edu

 

Practical experience requirement

Wondering what kinds of experiences will count for this requirement?  Just remember these basics:

  •    Fifty hours (or more)
  •    Relevant to your professional sector

Here are some actual examples that have been approved and used successfully by previous students. You can use these ideas for inspiration to create your own practical experience, or you can contact these organizations and find out ways to get involved with them.

• Supporting faculty and new students and gaining valuable teaching and mentoring experience as a FIG Assistant (FA) with UO’s First-Year Experience Program                                                              (https://fyp.uoregon.edu/work-figs)

•  Speaking to classes and campus groups and creating other outreach projects as a Peace Corps Campus Ambassador (https://career.uoregon.edu/peacecorpsambassadors)

• Working collaboratively with indigenous communities in Bolivia by planning and supporting projects and events with SIREJ (Students for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice)       (http://www.sirejbolivia.org)

• Learning ways to strengthen communities economically by researching how social programs impact participants’ ability to save and piloting a savings program for formerly unhoused persons,         as an intern with MAPLE Microdevelopment (http://www.maplemicrodevelopment.org)

• Working in UO professors’ labs to better understand global health, children’s wellbeing and how young children learn

(http://www.uolearninglab.com/what-we-do/and https://dslab.uoregon.edu/about/opportunities/and https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrasslab.html)

• Creating a “tool library” for local organizations to use for support and recovery services serving both houseless and housed people with CascadiaClusters (https://www.cascadiaclusters.org)

• Mentoring incoming student veterans as a PAVE (Peer Advisors for Veterans Education) advisor, to help them with their transition and to connect them to resources           (https://dos.uoregon.edu/pave)

• Educating youth in Tanzania on sexual and reproductive health and managing social media for the local nonprofit Active Community Initiatives (https://www.facebook.com/ACInitiativesTZ/)

• Working as a swim instructor and life guard for children and youth with special needs at the Eugene YMCA (https://www.eugeneymca.org/careers)

• Learning about language teaching while honing professional-level language skills through a SLAT (Second Language Learning and Teaching) internship in a UO first-year Spanish class (https://slat.uoregon.edu/internship)

• Working as a teachers aid in a play-based San Francisco preschool (https://www.northbeachkids.com/about1)

• Learning about budgeting, marketing, outreach and fundraising by serving as Treasurer of the UO UNESCO Club (https://studentlife.uoregon.edu/clubs)

• Serving as a professional role model and informal guidance counselor for kids by working for a summer at Boys and Girls Club of Emerald Valley (https://www.bgcev.org/employment)

• Teaching climate science and climate justice to middle school students through the Environmental Leadership Program here at UO (https://cas.uoregon.edu/envs/hands-on/leadership)

• Reviewing cases of children and youth in foster care, identifying needs, reporting findings and making recommendations as a member of the Oregon Judicial Department Citizen Review Board (https://www.volunteeruwlane.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000Cz8pFUAR/citizen-review-board)

•  Promoting wellness and educating other UO students as a Peer Wellness Advocate at the Duck Nest (https://health.uoregon.edu/ducknest)
• Teaching surfing to kids in a surfing and ocean education program in Los Angeles (https://aquasurf.com

 

 Tips:

 

 Check out these campus resources that often provide practical and/or leadership opportunities:

 

Leadership experience requirement

Wondering what kinds of experiences will help you meet this requirement? Just remember these basics:

  •       Leadership doesn’t need an official title – what matters is what you did and how you interacted with others
  •       The key component is the 2-page (double spaced) reflection on your experience, exploring how you grew as a leader and analyzing your successes, failures and lessons you learned from            the experience
  •      Many of the practical experiences listed above could be used as for the leadership requirement instead – what is crucial is the reflection paper that you write
  •      There is no minimum hour requirement for the leadership experience.

Here are some examples that other students have successfully used, but again, remember – the most important part of meeting this requirement is the reflection paper that you write about it, and how it contributed to your own growth as a leader.

  • Serving as an officer for your club, sorority or fraternity
  • Taking initiative to ensure the success of an event or project you’ve been involved in
  • Teaching, whether formal or informal
  • Mentoring others, whether formal or informal
  • Facilitating discussions
  • Providing others with guidance or support
  • Serving as a peer advisor or educator
  • Working in a job where you take responsibility

Other advising resources available to you as a UO student interested in the program and in the Peace Corps include: