Dr. Houman Sadri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Florida.  His research interests include Middle East Politics, Terrorism, Globalization, American Foreign Policy, and International Relations & Organizations. Dr. Sadri is the Founder and Faculty Advisor of the UCF Model United Nations Program since 1995, and his students have won many awards in regional and national Model U.N. competition throughout the USA.  He is the co-author of Intercultural Communication: A New Approach to International Relations and Global Challenges. 
 
Dr. Madelyn Flammia is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida.  She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Technical Communication.  Her research interests include international technical communication, visual communication, and global virtual teams. Dr. Flammia has given presentations on intercultural communication at professional conferences and for corporate audiences.  She is the co-author of Intercultural Communication: A New Approach to International Relations and Global Challenges and the editor of the Society for Technical Communication anthology, Perspectives on the Profession of Technical Communication. 
 

Educators must find ways to prepare students for the challenges they will face in both their professional and their personal lives as citizens in the 21^st century.  Instruction that incorporates both interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives can help students develop as global citizens and can enhance their civic engagement both locally and globally.  This presentation will demonstrate how faculty members can create assignments and courses that will develop students’ global competencies and, thereby, enhance their civic engagement.