The Center for Global Studies (CGS)
汕头大学文学院全球研究中心
CGS is an international, interdisciplinary, and multilingual faculty who has been academically trained in North American, Europe and Asian Pacific. Our teaching and research program provides liberal arts electives to the students of the entire university designed to advance academic training, improve thinking skills and habits, broaden intellectual horizons, and enhance perceptual sensitivity. We believe that the liberal arts are an essential part of a college education; therefore we provide a thematically and methodologically integrated academic program of humanities and social sciences that includes reflections upon the natural sciences. We teach with the conviction that an interdisciplinary education in STU should: encourage students to become rigorous independent thinkers; cultivate students to be socially responsible local and global citizens; explore multiple ways of knowing and learning; and enhance students’ study in their major subjects.
As a Humanities and Social Sciences oriented faculty, CGS offers courses in Anthropology, History, Media and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Digital Humanities. We emphasize student-centered, active learning in our teaching, and provide our classes in forms of seminar, interactive lecture, and independent study. Our courses all use multi-media and e-learning or hybrid learning to enhance content learning and new literacy training, which has become more and more important to our students’ future. CGS courses are conducted in English, Chinese or bilingual formats.
全球研究中心是一个国际性的，使用多种语言的教学科研单位。中心的教师们都有在北美，欧洲和亚洲太平洋地区的学术界进行学习和工作的经历。我们的教学和研究项目致力于提供面向汕头大学全校学生的各类人文通识选修课程。所有的课程设计都旨在增进学生的学术训练，培养各种思维能力和习惯，拓展人文视野和提高学生在社会文化层面的感知敏锐度。我们认为人文通识教育是大学教育不可或缺的一部分，为此，我们所提供的课程项目整合了人文与社会科学的各种主题和方法也包括对自然科学的反思。我们的教学理念是：汕头大学的跨学科教育应该鼓励学生成为严谨独立的思想者，培养学生成为有高度社会责任感的本土和全球公民，探索多样的学习方式，同时增强学生们各自专业的学习效果。
全球研究中心以人文社科为导向，提供的课程类别包括文化人类学、历史、媒体与文化研究、哲学、政治学、心理学、社会学、数字人文等。我们注重促进以学生为中心的主动学习，教学形式包括研讨课、交互式讲授、翻转课堂以及独立研究项目。我们的课程都采用多媒体和E-Learning或混合式，在帮助学生更有效地学习知识内容的同时，积极培养那些对其未来越来越重要的新素养。我们的教学语言是英语、汉语或双语。
Tropic of Cancer Pagoda, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Global Studies Symposium: "Value and Life Meaning" October 2016
