Understanding the role that America plays on the global stage is important now more than ever. In the past, keeping social studies curriculums up to date relied on the constraints of book publishing schedules with infrequent replacements. Living in the digital age has created new standards for learning about history, world cultures and their impact on current events.
The Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS) is a non-profit, charitable and educational organization dedicated to international study. Since its inception in 1962, it has produced many high-profile conferences, public programs and television productions promoting international issues and the global environment. To provide conclusive answers on these issues, it has hosted a long list of dignitaries at SCIS events such as Tenzin Gyatso (the current Dalai Lama), Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
More recently SCIS has begun a new initiative to provide a robust online curriculum to prepare American students for a changing world. This program titled “World in Transition Online: America and the 21st Century World,” will be available to teachers and students in the State of Georgia and beyond. This initiative has been undertaken in response to the urgent need for modernized social studies curriculum delivery as identified in a study by the National Geographic Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. The quality of past SCIS curriculum materials has been praised by Georgia School Systems which have already begun sending letters of support for the development of the new online course materials.
Contributions to the Southern Center for International Studies Fund at Cobb Comm
unity Foundation will support the development and distribution of this critically needed curriculum.
For more information on The Southern Center for International Studies, visit the SCIS website.
