Global change does present challenges for academic teaching methods, but also creates opportunities to make today’s higher education curriculums more relevant through student engagement in real world projects with the emerging and developing countries. With the Web being such a dynamic medium and providing the means, whereby we can now communicate globally, course content in web design needs to embrace the global workplace and community and provide students with interaction and collaboration with people of different countries, cultures, living standards and to a range of different perspectives.

This goal has been met by expanding the Kennesaw State University graphic design curriculum to include a component that focuses on creating websites for non-profit organizations around the globe in need of a web presence. This gives students the opportunity to become engaged in research, expansion of their skills in digital manipulation, visual articulation, and the written and verbal communication necessary to work with other countries and cultures. The project empowers the students and graduates as global citizens who can use their skills to make and continue to make positive world social change. 

The following sites were designed by KSU art majors with KSU professors Carole Maugé-Lewis and Lin Hightower.