GPS REQUIREMENTS
Students earn GPS designation by accumulating 100 points from each of the three categories listed below.
Required Coursework
Students are required to take Global Studies, Ethnic Studies, and achieve level three of a foreign language. In addition there are other globally-themed options to help complete the certificate requirement.
Global Studies
Ethnic Studies
Foreign Language- level 3
Community Action
Students complete forty hours of service, per year, focused on helping improve conditions in their community. Action opportunities are based on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
9th Grade: Global Studies Action Portfolio
10th Grade: 40 Hours
11th Grade: 40 Hours
12th Grade: 40 Hours
International Experience
Students partake in an online "virtual exchange" program with other international students. As an option, students may choose to raise money for a short-term homestay abroad (approximately 7-9 days) during their Junior or
Senior year.
Required:
Online Virtual Exchange (Online program through organizations such as Youth For Understanding and Generation Global- facilitated through the Ethnic Studies class)
Or...
Optional Experiences. Analy High School will cover expenses for the virtual exchange, however students may pursue an optional 7-9 day homestay program overseas, or participate in Global Glimpse, a 16-day service trip in Latin America. Students will be responsible for fundraising in order to participate in optional experiences, but GPS will work to assist students who want to pursue this option.
GPS: Dunfermline, Scotland (two-way exchange)
GPS: Liverpool, England (one-way exchange)
GPS: Takeo City, Japan (one-way)
GPS: Budapest, Hungary (one-way)
GPS: Ismalia, Egypt (one-way)
Global Glimpse (16-day Latin America service trip)