Abstract—Though the world is becoming increasingly
globalized, has the education evolved to prepare youth to
become world citizens with the necessary skills and
competencies to meet these challenges? Altogether 301 students
from the Psychology and Public Relations Departments
involved in community-based projects were purposively
surveyed using Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills
questionnaire. Results showed that overall the mean scores of
the Civic Attitude and Competence Skills are moderate. The
results reveal no significant difference between the Psychology
students and Public Relation students in the mean scores of
Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills except for subscales
Civic Action, Interpersonal & Problem-Solving Skills, Social
Justice, and Diversity. The author concludes that it is important
to enable youth to participate in developing a sense of self,
appreciation of cultural diversity, social justice and building
civic actions towards globalization awareness.
Index Terms—Civic attitudes, competence skills, diversity,
social justice.
M. N. Lee and P. L. Gan are with the University of Tunku Abdul Rahman,
Kampar Campus, Perak Malaysia (e-mail: leemn@ utar.edu.my, gplee@
utar.edu.my).
S. Z. Tan is with the Department of Comunication, Taylor‟s University,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (e-mail:tserzian@gmail.com).
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Cite: Mah Ngee Lee, Pei Lee Gan, and Ser Zian Tan, " Globalization through Community-Based Projects:
Enhancing Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills in
Undergraduates," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 1003-1008, 2015.